GUVI is an online technical learning platform that has been started as YouTube Channel by Ex-Paypalians to share their technical learning. An Indian Institute of Technology Madras-incubated Startup GUVI is working to revolutionize recruitment process for Indian Students.
Speaking about benefits to students and recruiters through this process, Sridevi Arunprakash, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of GUVI, said, “GUVI is on a mission to create 1 Million Coders in India by 2020 and this conference is a major part of our efforts to boost the Indian tech sector. This will be a unique opportunity for the students to get first-hand knowledge about industry expectations. This is a whole new approach to recruit and get exposed to the industry.”
Mr. S.P. Balamurugan, Co-founder and CEO, GUVI, said, “This is a breakthrough in recruitment since the whole recruitment model will get revamped if the students are recruited through this process do extraordinarily well in the companies they get placed in. During this Event, we also launched Experiential learning program called ‘Zen Class’ we internally call it is a modern day Gurukulam, a collaborative, project based learning with an industry Mentor which will help students skill up at a higher pace.”
GUVI is already working with more than 52 top colleges in Tamil Nadu including Anna University, IIT Madras, Saveetha School of Engineering, Chennai, Jeppiar Group of Colleges, Chennai, KCT & Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Nanda Educational Group of Institutions, Erode, Mohammed Sathak Group of Institutions, Chennai and Keelakarai among others. It has mentored and placed more than 5,000 candidates in corporate firms and Startups.
GUVI platform has more than 140,000+ learners, 150 Industry Mentors and over 60 Hiring clients. It hosts more than 1,000 technical videos (Machine Learning, Python, Java Design Patterns, Data Structures, and Programming Languages) in vernacular languages. GUVI conducted developer boot camps in 50+ colleges.