With pandemic-related job losses soaring, there’s a bright spot for tech-enabled jobseekers. In an April 24 article entitled “Inside Blockchain’s Coronavirus Hiring Spree,” Forbes reported the share of cryptocurrency and blockchain job postings on Indeed.com had increased by nearly nine percent, while remote cryptocurrency and blockchain-related job postings increased by more than 42 percent.
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The news that companies are snapping up applicants with blockchain experience is music to the ears of Portland State University. In its winter 2020 term, the university successfully completed their Blockchain in Business Lab with the help of blockchain innovator SIMBA Chain.
SIMBA Chain, whose cloud-based Smart Contract as a Service (SCaaS) platform has been embraced by the U.S. government as well as enterprise businesses, was deployed by Portland State as part of its online Business Blockchain Certificate program. SIMBA Chain is an able partner, as its low-code platform allows users with little to no programming skills to conceptualize design, develop, and deploy decentralized applications (dapps).
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The hands-on experience is critical to creating both an understanding of and comfort with cutting-edge blockchain technology and its applications among students in business, as well as traditional computing majors, says David Wasson, SIMBA Chain’s education program lead.
“Like any new technology, it’s important for people to dive in and actually use it,” says Wasson, who has been working with Portland State since last fall to help them create what is among the first-of-its-kind, university business-level experiences in blockchain. “Portland State is enabling students who have literally no coding experience to create relatively complex smart contracts and dapps.”
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