My mentorship sessions with students and working professionals starts by understanding the mentees’ background, interests, and professional goals. After talking to them and analysing holistically, I leverage my experience and knowledge to help them understand their true passions, assess their career options and thus create a tailor-made long-term plan for their future.
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Tell us more about your journey and background. Born & raised in New Delhi, India, like most 90s kids - I followed the traditional path of pursuing a professional degree. After great trials and triumphs, I qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2015. But soon after, I decided to push myself down the unconventional path of pursuing an international MBA degree from Imperial College, London. I specialised in strategy and brand management. I currently have 8+ years of work experience across start-ups and large corporations in management consulting, customer insights, and growth strategy in India and the UK. My love for social media led me to launch my side-hustle, MSB Vision, in 2019. Over the last three years, I have built a community of 400,000+ across YouTube and Instagram. I am now an entrepreneur living in London mentoring
professionals through workshops, university talks, interviews, newsletters,
and courses on topics such as career strategy, interview/CV tips, brand
building, and effective communication. I have mentored 10,000+ students and
given talks at 30+ universities. I now wake up in the morning excited to help
young professionals accelerate their careers. 2.
How can a career coach help someone make a more informed decision? As
young professionals navigate their career paths they lack either of the
three: lack of knowledge, lack of guidance, or lack of motivation. This is
also because the number of courses, degrees, and career opportunities that
are available are now countless. I, as a career coach, help them to recognise
their career vision, streamline their interests and create their own path
consisting of things they are truly passionate about and thus, help eliminate
that chaos and confusion in their mind. 3.
How do you go about assessing someone and making recommendations? Each
individual has a personality and talents that are wonderfully unique to them.
My mentorship sessions with students and working professionals starts by
understanding the mentees’ background, interests, and professional
goals. After
talking to them and analysing holistically, I leverage my experience and
knowledge to help them understand their true passions, assess their career
options and thus create a tailor-made long-term plan for their future.
Studying
in India is affordable and builds a strong academic foundation for students.
Courses in India help you to connect theory to events happening in the
country. Pursuing education from top colleges in India is definitely worth
it. Studying
abroad helps you build a global perspective. Degrees from great universities
abroad give you exposure to a more practical methodology of academia and at
the same time, focus on developing communication, leadership, and
team-building skills with people from all over the world. However, deciding
to study abroad is a very personal decision as it involves a lot of
investment in terms of time, money, and effort.
If
someone is unsure of what degree to pursue, what field to work in, what
courses to take up, how to switch fields, how to progress in their chosen
field, how to build a professional brand, how to become more professionally
confident - they should definitely see a career coach! It will help eliminate
the uncertainty and confusion in their mind and create a clarity about career
goals.
There
are too many books I love but the one that comes to my mind immediately is
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It truly led to my spiritual awakening and
inspired me to follow my heart and dreams. I keep re-reading it at different
points in my life.
It
is the duty of a career coach to help young professionals make the right
decisions to reach their own true potential. It is very important to be
empathetic, non-judgemental, positive as well as abreast with the latest
innovations and changes happening in the job industry. 8.
What kind of strategies and mindset is required for this role? Majority
of students and professionals I speak to, are unaware of their own capabilities
and confused about their future goals. Being supportive, goal-oriented and a
good listener, I work with them to curate a strategy and take the necessary
steps to reach their professional goals. |
Bio:
I was born and raised in New Delhi, India. I qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2015, and afterwards, I moved to London to pursue an MBA degree from Imperial College. Over the last 8 years, I have worked at large corporations, such as KPMG and EY, medium-sized organisations as well as start-ups across India and the UK. I live in London with my husband Shashank, and I work for a British management consulting firm.
I guide and mentor young students who are struggling to make key decisions for their careers. As a career coach, I help my students develop a vision for their future and assess the options available to them to get there. I ask them questions that they don't usually ask themselves and assist them in thinking through the answers on what they truly want from their professional lives.
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