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Aid and Development Workers Resume Search  (ADRS)

 

ADRS is a new private-sector initiative in the Aid and Development Sector.  Over the last few years, jobs-by-email services such as DevNetJobs, DevJobs, Topica/EPSA-Cori and ReliefWeb have been very successful and highly useable.

 

Despite that, many or most project management companies still maintain some kind of in-house database of consultants, with the attendant costs in manpower, hardware and software.

 

ADRS is a combination of a resume distribution service and a highly useable extremely simple rapid search database, where the encoding of resumes is done by the consultants themselves, and indeed forms an integral part of their resume(s).

Advantages for consultants:

  1. Get your resume to many companies by submitting it to one email address only.


  2. Control the keywords and other properties which are attributed to you.


Advantages for project management companies:

  1. You get the power of a database with no IT staff, no database software, no data entry staff.


  2. You get lots of resumes and resume updates with one download per month.


  3. You can continue to use the jobs-by-email services for the majority of your requirements.


Consultants can register at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AidAndDevelopmentWorkersResumes

Companies and Organisations can register at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AidAndDevelopmentProjmanCompanies

ADRS is a new highly automated project which brings benefits to both consultants and to consulting companies.  The business model and logistics operate as follows:

 

  1. Consultants prepare their resumes in Microsoft word.  They add properties to the file which specify all the parameters required by employing companies – e.g. nationality, country experience, skill keywords, age, rate, language skills etc..  These properties are not visible in the document, and are therefore acceptable for P11 UN forms, EU format resumes/CV’s etc.. This coding system is specified on the website http://www.cd3wd.com/WindexService/

 

  1. Consultants name their resume(s) according to a simple naming convention, also specified on the website http://www.cd3wd.com/WindexService/ .  Consultants can submit multiple resumes in multiple formats and in multiple languages.

 

  1. Consultants email their resumes to ADRS.  Consultants will be contacted periodically through a yahoo groups mailing list to remind them to email updates, and also to inform them as to ADRS project developments.  There will be a list of resume filenames on the ADRS website with the latest update date to assure consultants that their email resume submissions are being processed and distributed.  When an updated resume is received, it overcopies the same file with the same name as per the naming conventions; thus there is no plethora of obsolete and duplicated resumes on the system.

 

  1. ADRS consolidates these resumes, zips them into one file, and places that file on the ADRS website for download by participating employing companies.  The file is encrypted by a password on winzip, or by the encryption program http://www.cd3wd.com/Wencrypt/ .  This is to ensure that the resumes are only available to participating bona fide companies and not to every junk mailer and identity thief.  Participating companies will receive the current password by email, and the password will probably be changed every month.

 

  1. ADRS issues monthly updates of additional consultants plus updated resumes of existing consultants – also for download as above.

 

  1. Companies unzip the file to their central server, and the files go automatically to their correct directory and sub-directory; they can also make incremental copies to an unlimited number of PC’s using the free Microsoft utility robocopy.exe.  Companies are informed by yahoo groups mailing list when a new update release is ready – as stated above it is planned to be about once per month.

 

7.  Companies make unlimited searches using simple or advanced criteria using the free search utilities WindexService and WfindStrDotNet, available at

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These search utilities, combined with the very clever but quite simple resume-coding system,  bring database-type searches to text search system, with instant response and with zero database overhead.

 

  1.  The service is and will remain free to consultants.  It will start as a free service to companies and may convert to a chargeable service to companies – we will see.  If yes, then the charges will be in the region of US$ 100 per company per year only.

 

  1. Timescale –  the 2 yahoo groups necessary were established 27 and 28.04.2006.  The website for downloading is ready.  The search and encryption utilities are both mission-ready.  We should expect the call for resumes around 15.05.2006 (05/15/2006) and the first download to be ready around 30.05.2006 (05/30/2006)

 

  1. Background and history – I ran CPS – Consult Project Search – from 1987 through till about 1998, and again briefly in 2002.  I am a professional software developer operating in UK and European commercial sectors and also in the Aid and Development field.  Find my resume at http://www.cd3wd.com/resume/

 

Best regards to Consultants and to Employing Companies,

 

Mr Alex Weir  

4 Brechin Drive

Marlborough

Harare

Zimbabwe

Africa

Tel +263 4 301 047 and +263 23 824 045 (GMT +2 hours)

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