course to aid Career Advancement of learners
Coursera, an online learning platform, has launched a course — Mindshift — to help learners break through the obstacles to learn and discover their hidden potential. Created by Barbara Oakley, the course is an extension to the concepts taught by Oakley in learning How to learn, a popular courses which received over one lakh enrollments from India.
The course is designed to foster learning lifestyle by providing practical insights from neuroscience and focusing on tips and tricks to help them advance in their careers.
It will equip learners with mental tools and insights along with guiding them to make major shifts in their careers.
The four-week long self-paced course is available for Rs 1935 on the website. It can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course.
keyword-based job search launched
AasaanJobs has launched its latest keyword-based job search feature. The new feature allows recruiters to search and filter out jobs using pre-defined keywords.
Earlier, the recruiters could search jobs only by job title and company name, and was mostly done offline. However, with the new keyword feature, the company has moved towards automation, allowing registered partners to find relevant jobs using specific keywords on AasaanJobs’ platform.
Commenting on the feature, Siddharth Gupta, VP, Marketing, AasaanJobs said: “The keyword-based job search feature has been welcomed by all of our recruiters as they can now easily find what they are looking for without any hassle. With this, recruiters can now place any candidate with a certain skill-set by just searching for that skill using predefined keywords, and find relevant job opportunities.”
Intern with icons
Internshala has launched its second edition of Intern with Icon (IwI). This year, students would get an opportunity to intern with personalities like Rahul Ram of Indian Ocean Band, Bhaichung Bhutia, the former Indian footballer, Shaheen Mistri, CEO of Teach for India, Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, Gul Panag, actress and social activist and Ashish Vidyarthi.
To participate, students can register athttp://bit.ly/Avenues-Icon from April 5 to April 15. It is a unique initiative where students get a once in a lifetime opportunity to work and learn from their role models. At the launch, Sarvesh Agrawal, the founder & CEO of Internshala, said: “To help students discover their passion and excel in their field of interests, we have launched this initiative. We have a mission to build a culture of meaningful internships in India. Internships are the boarding pass to every student’s dream and an opportunity to learn directly from their role models.”
KIIT College receives Inspiration Award
CSE final year students of KIIT College of Engineering, Gurugram have secured the 4th position in grand finale in AICTE Mministry. They have also received the Inspiration Award by Persistent System in Smart India Hackathon 2017.
The hackathon is a pan India 36-hour non-stop digital programming competition. The participating teams simultaneously competed from across 33 locations in India to offer digital yet sustainable innovative solutions to solve real time challenges faced by the nation. The hackathon is focused on the problems of social importance identified by 29 ministries and departments. A total of 1,266 teams of 10,000 participants were shortlisted for the finale.