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GeeksforGeeks Enables Millions of Students to get a Job via its Free-to-Access Job Portal

Jan 15, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Founder, #GeeksforGeeks, #Sandeep Jain

New Delhi: Covid-19 has led to an unprecedented situation for business across the globe especially affecting the employability of over 120 million people in India alone. College graduates who were upbeat about their future in January 2020 have been travelling on a gloomy road since March 2020. Just when finding a job became an uphill task due to the unanticipated need of the market, GeeksforGeeks provided open access to the portal to enable students and working professionals to get a suitable job opportunity.

During this pandemic, GeeksforGeeks received more than 80,000 requests from the students who were struggling to have adequate job opportunities available. Many skilled and experienced individuals who were unable to find good career opportunities. In fact, national to multinational brands were forced to go for mass layoffs and salary cuts to survive. These factors also affected the placement of premier institutions like IITs and NITs.

While commenting on the same, Sandeep Jain, Founder, GeeksforGeeks said, “More than 120 million people have lost their jobs in India in the last 12 months while the new vacancies were also down by 25-28%. Keeping this in mind we decided to extend a helping hand to those in need and unlocked the job portal for everyone. More than 200 Companies are listed at GeeksforGeeks Job Portal today, and 10000+ students have already applied for the job through the portal. We hope that this will help thousands of others to find their dream job without any hassle.”

Amid this global pandemic, GeeksforGeeks has emerged as a saviour for many and is offering unique opportunities to both – employers and job seekers. It has emerged as a one-stop solution for those in the lookout for some lucrative job offers.

GeeksforGeeks is not only helping the unemployed find a job but is also helping organizations, and particularly startups leverage the benefits of the portal by providing them access to thousands of skilled and proficient available workforces in the country. More than 40 startups/companies have teamed up with the platform in the last few months like One Plus, Rapido, Milkbasket, Hike, Unicommerce, and many others have already benefited from the portal.

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3-Month Free Weekly Workshop on Data Structures & Algorithms by GeeksforGeeks to Help Fast Track Learner’s Career during the Pandemic

Nov 11, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Algorithms, #Career, #Data Structures, #GeeksforGeeks, #Mr. Shashi Bhushan, #Sandeep Jain, #Shashi Bhushan, #Workshop

How seldom do we witness a webinar in these times, which aided us to navigate well through the chaos this year has brought about? Amidst a myriad of these virtual meets, GeeksforGeeks looks forward to feeding the minds of the masses and aims to encourage learners to build on their skills and keep that goal on the fast track. GeeksforGeeks brings to its users and beyond, a 3-month bi-weekly workshop series on Data Structures & Algorithms. Starting from the 3rd week of November and continuing till late in January, this workshop intends to provide comprehensive learning around the most fundamental topic of Computer Science.

As the placement season is about to hit, GeeksforGeeks is expecting 35,000 learners to be registered for the Data Structures and Algorithms workshop series, which is 100% more than the last quarter workshop. Furthermore, the company have kept the registration open for the workshop till the mid of December to allow more learners to participate in this limited series.

Shashi Bhushan, Tech Lead and Course Instructor, GeeksforGeeks, said, “All these workshops are thoughtfully created keeping in mind the needs of the coming time, as digital transformation has opened more doors for learners in the computer science discipline. Further, holding these workshops will play a pivotal role in the lives of several learners, especially during this course of pandemic and beyond.” The host, Mr. Shashi Bhushan, has previously worked with Adobe and PayTM as a software engineer.

Sandeep Jain, Founder, GeeksforGeeks, said, “The disruption caused by pandemic has led to thousands of people losing their jobs, and the future is still unpredictable. With this workshop, we plan to add to the skills of people, not just who are sitting in their homes looking for a job, but also plan to direct the upcoming wave of students who will launch into their career in the coming future.”

This initiative by GeeksforGeeks is a part of their campaign #SkillitUp against rising unemployment and decreasing the employability of software engineers in India. The prime objective of the campaign is to help students and working professionals and motivates them to upgrade their skill-set by learning to program the right way.

The topics that shall be covered in a span of around 22 workshops include but are not limited to linked lists, queues, stacks, trees, heaps, algorithms, and dynamic programming. These topics are often hailed as the tools that may either ‘make’ or ‘break’ an interview. With every workshop taking place twice a week, it not only seeks to achieve an appropriate pace but also makes a significant piece of knowledge accessible to many.

With an all-encompassing framework of this workshop, GeeksforGeeks would be ensuring that none returns empty-handed. The 3-month knowledge-sharing series would comprise focusing on theory, solving regular practice problems, and a Q&A session at the end of every week. Apart from this, questions asked most frequently in product-based companies would be discussed.