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Career opportunities for IIT graduates have been in a slump for a while now. The latest campus placements only accommodated 50% of the graduates, which means that the other half were left jobless. Rahul Gupta and Hardik Makkar decided to help their brethren by employing their entrepreneurial skills. We spoke to Rahul about how they and iitjobs.in intend to help these graduates. He says “iitjobs.in is an online platform to provide career opportunities to IITians and graduates from other premiere schools in India. The motivation to start it came this January when campus placements in IITs left over 50% students jobless. iitjobs.in was started to provide students with off campus placement opportunities. Every IIT has a Student Placement Office which facilitates placements from campus. iitjobs.in aims to act as a permanent placement office for not only facilitating job opportunities for final year students but also those who have graduated in yester years.”
“Employers and Job consultants can post jobs for free on the site and users can view and apply to them directly at no cost.”
If you think that there may not be many takers for this the facts beg to differ. Rahul states “Currently we average around 1000 hits a day which is rising consistently. We have received a huge number of resumes that have been submitted on the site by the users. These are sent to employers at regular intervals.”

With a focus on quality over quantity, they dedicate to finding the right kind of job for the discerning graduate. Rahul elaborates saying “We wanted to strictly differentiate ourselves from other job sites wherein thousands of jobs are posted everyday. iitjobs.in focuses on quality jobs which are targeted towards graduates from premiere schools. We thus aim to remove the clutter of the thousands of jobs so that the user doesn’t have to go about searching for the needle in a haystack.”