hey friends welcome to chain coaching rob here in this video we're going to give you a big
update on an incredible tool and resource for people looking for h1b sponsorship jobs
that you can use on linkedin and glassdoor learn how to get better jobs check it out
my friends thanks so much for tuning in welcome back omkar nihar from a previous video uh don't
miss the previous video if you guys want to check it out but they have an incredible
google chrome plug-in which allows you guys to filter companies that sponsor for opt and h1b
and they've got some exciting updates we're going to share with you guys in this video but omkar
nehar go ahead and introduce yourselves again hi guys uh thanks for joining in and my name is nihar
i am a graduate student like i recently graduated from ut arlington majoring in computer science
currently i'm working with amazon and i am from pune india and yes i am the co-developer of this
plugin and thanks a lot for inviting us and having us over here with you definitely uh i
will go next so hi everyone i'm omkar and uh i'm also a recent graduate from university of texas
arlington and i did my master's in computer science now working with amazon web services and
i get yes i'm the ideator but you know we both did it actually so yeah i'm the coder as well
and uh thanks for all for calling us back definitely that was fun earlier this year back in
the summer we had a conversation just after these guys graduated and we're in their job search you
know they were classmates together and now they're still batchmates they're on the same team with aws
uh in their profession now so it's cool following your guys journey and just the success of this
plug-in so before we jump into the plug-in we're gonna have some timestamps so you guys can follow
the conversation along we gotta we're gonna show a great demo later on how this works and how
you guys can apply this in your job search but first let's talk about the job market it's been
a crazy year in 2020 what do students and job seekers what do you guys want to share to them
and why this tool is important yeah so absolutely it has been crazy uh firstly due to the corona uh
kovaid pandemic and uh there has been a great great uh shift in the job market
the style the job culture as well because everything is moving online and everything is
turning work from home many people lost their jobs earlier but uh now as we can see the situation is
changing everyone every company is trying to go virtual is trying to hire people and it's kind of
you can say speeding slowly but yeah again it is opening am i right you feel the same yeah i mean
it was crazy in the beginning everyone was you know star like a lot of people had their
job offers risking and a lot of people lost their job but i guess now um it's taking a better turn
and we are seeing few like openings especially in the software and computer science areas we are
seeing like a lot of openings earlier in the year definitely had friends lose their jobs or lose job
offers internship offers but it's cool i feel like a lot more people are now starting jobs or getting
hired and i agree things are starting to pick up a little bit which is encouraging for the new users
people who are first time hearing about this kind of give them a quick briefing on what this is and
why is it important so for the new users uh i'll tell you like what problem which we had and what
solution we came up like in omkar so the problem was uh it was too frustrating for us to apply
for a job and then getting rejection saying the company does not provide sponsorship for h1b visa
and it used to take around 10 to 15 minutes for each job applications so what we thought of you
know developing something for ourselves uh which would help uh to streamline the process free cloud
companies which spawns which provide sponsorship and you know so if we had that list or if we know
uh that this company provides sponsorship or this does not then we will not apply to those companies
or we will apply to only those companies which provide sponsorship uh saving our time we came up
with an idea of developing a google chrome plugin which could embed with linkedin and once you
start using that plugin it would uh on the job post it would directly give you uh categories like
the company sponsors the company are not sponsors so it's kind of a filter uh which we develop in
simple words so that is something in a nutshell what we build yeah it's it's basic but it's
brilliant and so needed for the existing users you know you guys have gotten you know tons of
downloads now people all over the world what are the existing users need to know about this update
uh we have a great uh update for the existing users like we changed our ui which was kind of uh
you can say complex and uh turned it into a more simpler version as well as we worked on the speed
uh so that the users can easily filter the jobs uh based on the visas so yeah that's a that's a big
big update for existing users uh yeah and also like we uh developed like we provided a feature
for glassdoor so earlier it was just for linkedin now the plugin supports glassdoor as well so you
can like use for one close the platforms now why did you guys choose glassdoor as the next
one after linkedin thing is uh we have received a lot of feedback like positive feedback uh again
negative feedback uh we took it in constructive way and a lot of people they they said you know
uh why don't you do it for uh other platforms as well so one of the like a lot of people they came
up with glassdoor you know we would really like to uh have the same functionality over there as well
so and then again there were people who said you know there's indeed there are a lot of other
sites which you could do so we thought you know let's uh take it step by step and let's see how
uh how everything works out uh because we just started you know developing it and linkedin was a
great hit so we then thought you know let's build for a glass store so okay so first linkedin now
glassdoor if you guys have other sites you want maybe indeed or others let us know in the comment
give us some feedback and which other job portals you guys are interested in seeing a cool
filter plug-in like this um so is it demo time do you guys want to show them how it works yes
as you're pulling this up how much did this uh plug-in actually help you guys in your job
search as a you know people who graduated this year so like a lot of our batchmates they are
already using it and like we get like all types of feedback so so now it's great it is doing good
some say you know it's taking too much of time you know uh like uh why are you not even doing
it for indiegogo like those kind of things so uh it is really helping them a lot uh like it is
helping them in a way that it's saving their time and you know to go through all that process and
then come back rejected so it's definitely like helping to apply to the job smartly
awesome well let's see how it works and we're on linkedin first so we are on linkedin and uh
you can see a small yellow icon for uh our plugin so our plugin is installed in the chrome browser
and uh you you just have to click on the icon and you can see uh you know it's calculating
for a company uh and it is trying to search using uh its back end its different algorithms
because we are we are trying to be as perfect as possible so you can see for a company which is arm
it shows it is highly sponsoring so for the earlier version we had a button here
what we have just removed now it's just one click you just click on the company you like and boom
it's it starts showing you the count and whether the company highly sponsors it doesn't sponsor
and so on you can see the speed the uh yeah it's it's really helpful so if so if the
there's like we have the company already into our database it will like give you results instantly
but then if uh it is not there then it goes outside now crawls the entire web and it takes
certain delay but but it as you use it uh it grows in size and then our algorithm learns it and then
the next time you do it it will like be much more quicker so it's kind of crowdsourcing that data
and making it more refined is there any here that you see that are less likely to sponsor
that's what we are yeah yeah okay there's one as i keep checking linkedin i always
like companies which sponsor the highest maybe but yeah there are companies which uh sponsor
less comparatively or some of them uh they don't sponsor at all so yeah there are a few companies
so there are a lot of companies which are sponsoring now it's good news actually yeah
this is encouraging in the long term we hope you know no one uses our plugin everyone is sponsoring
but for now it's important yeah right so this this is like about uh linkedin
same thing we have developed for glassdoor as well all right let's check it out on gastor
so for uh glassdoor uh i would just add that it was a bit difficult for us but again we we made
it possible and you can see the small text here that appears and as soon as you click
it it works in the similar way it starts searching and then
once it searches it crawls different websites it checks with our database and there you go
so this one's hardly sponsored right because you you see rob here you can clearly see that this is
a defense company which is a kind of a government so yeah being an international i would not apply
for this but unless and until you see and check here and get to know oh it doesn't sponsor so
i will not waste my time applying so if i don't you don't know yeah we don't know like if the
company the defense company or it will sponsor or not but then now using our plugin you can directly
save time you know uh and not apply to those companies this is amazing so while we're showing
some more examples on glassdoor share some of the statistics that you guys have had just with the
the plug-in so far uh so so far uh we have like uh users we have across around 12 or 1200 plus users
and uh we have like users from 40 countries across the world so like most of the downloads we had
they were from uh usa india and few of them from australia uh no reason why from there but still
so yeah like 1200 plus users across 40 countries so those are like statistics that's exciting
yeah and you guys have gotten some good feedback as well people have been commenting posting what
was some of the helpful feedback and constructive criticism you guys got so the the one feedback
which we got was uh uh for the ui that there was a button and like we were going from one
step to two step for revealing the information so we got a feedback that you know if you could just
uh make it a little bit simpler or to do the steps for the users uh that would be
really helpful so that was one of the feedback which we got and then we removed that button
and made it more dynamic you can say and more informative so that was one of the major feedback
and of course a little bit about speed as well so omkar worked really hard at the back end
to you know implement few mechanisms to increase the speed yeah so you guys don't realize how hard
these guys have worked obviously it was to help them and their friends but now it's benefiting
you so be sure thank them in the comments give them big you know shout out uh because this is
an amazing tool and resource for you guys on two of the biggest job search platforms in the world
and i mean yeah feedback is really important i would say because uh feedback is what uh helps
us you know improve uh these things and build more features on top of the existing stack so
feedback is really important i would say you know just tell us how we did if you have if you see any
flaws let us know we'll try to help it yeah yeah any suggestions would be great yep and this like
this plugin is free so and and we are also it's like we developed this for the society out there
initially we'd build it for ourselves but it uh then turned out you know uh it was very useful for
others as well so we kept it free uh we don't we don't earn anything from this or we do not have uh
any you can say adsense or anything like that it is just to help the students out there so
uh if you have any ideas if you want to collaborate or everything is welcome so
yeah we are open to collaborations or any new uh ideas or you know any kind of such stuff
and i'll have their linkedin uh profiles in the video description so if you guys want to connect
with omkar nehar linkedin give them some feedback drop a message collaborate with them you can
connect with them there now that we've seen the demos you guys have gotten some cool publicity a
little bit sure how this is even made in the news locally in other parts of the world yeah that's
right rob so uh we we did all this we will get paying a lot of feedback from uh users all over
the world and uh actually uh a news person from university uh we collaborated with him and uh
he said it's so amazing that we we should send it out in the newsletter yeah we'll have the link for
that if you guys want to see the article and where else did it get shared in the world got shared in
australian news uh so it pulled somehow and then we were featured on australian news as well even
we were surprised for that but that was really amazing you know to be on those news channels
like those news platforms yeah so cool part of you guys and i mean the impact is you know the
word spreading so super exciting thanks thanks rob so happy to help spread the word on this
um i love the update and you guys are expanding it making it better taking the feedback and even
though you guys already have your full-time jobs you want to help more people on their journeys and
that's so exciting that's what shine coaching is all about and we love to help support that
and you guys at the beginning we were talking and noticed how trying coaching has uh some fun
merchandise and swag now so if you guys are a fan of giant coaching you guys can get a
mug a t-shirt uh show your support or enjoy your tasty mug so we'll have a link for that as well
if you guys want to check that out uh be fun to see some people supporting giant coaching
and you know students around the world in their fun cross-cultural journeys anything you guys
want to wrap this conversation up with and and leave to people as they're learning about this
one great thing uh i i personally uh would like to say is uh when you have a tool like the one
which we are providing it free for students or all the job seekers especially the internationals
along with that you need one more thing is a good resume and uh whatever skills you have you need
to effectively project them on the resume and i guess and coaching has lot such sessions which
help students to build a resume also i guess rob you have some sessions to help uh offer
the interviews right yeah different students with the interviews yeah so even that that is
pretty much important so again best of luck to all all our viewers for their job search
the same thing and like the child coaching is doing an awesome job for the community out there
so share the channel with your folks who are planning to you know pursue masters degree over
here and definitely uh any feedback for our plugin is always appreciated awesome well thank you guys
this is fun i love getting to share this i love the creativity the the innovation and just the
problem solving and then you know making that to help other people out and so i'm really encouraged
and thanks so much for wanting to share that again and make people aware of that thanks rob thanks
thanks thank you yeah and don't forget to connect with us online um on linkedin or other social
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