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Why this exists

Choosing the right undergraduate course and college is one of the first major career decisions a student makes — and it is usually made in a hurry, under pressure, on advice from everyone at once.

EduNerd Career Coaching is a specialised initiative of Shiksha Nerd, created specifically to help undergraduate aspirants make better-informed decisions about their courses, colleges, entrance examinations and future careers.

The problem is not a shortage of information — it is the opposite. The internet can give you thousands of opinions; good career guidance should give you clarity. We bring together career counselling, college research and student-focused educational content so that families make informed decisions rather than decisions based purely on rankings, trends or peer pressure.

How we work

Our objective is simple: help students understand their options before they make a decision that could shape the next several years of their lives. That means treating constraints as real — affordability, location, family expectations, timelines — rather than as obstacles to be motivated past. A plan that ignores them is not optimism.

It also means combining assessment with conversation. A psychometric assessment gives structured insight into interests, aptitude, personality and preferences, but it is an input, not a verdict. The counselling conversation is where it becomes useful.

What we will not do

  • Guarantee an admission or a job. Nobody can, and the claim is the clearest signal to walk away.
  • Recommend a career simply because it is currently popular or in demand.
  • Reduce a student to a test score, or put them in a box.

Who we work with

Students in Classes 8–10 choosing subjects and streams, students in Classes 11–12 choosing courses and colleges, college students reconsidering their direction, and working professionals evaluating a transition. Parents are welcome throughout, and for younger students we actively recommend it.

Where we are

Sessions run online by default so that where you live is not a constraint on who advises you. In-person sessions can be arranged where practical.

Who you work with

Your counsellor

Anubhuti Dhawan

Certified Career Analyst · MBA in Human Resource Management

An HR background matters here for a specific reason: it means the guidance comes from the side of the table that actually does the hiring. What a CV gets read for, which credentials carry weight and which are decoration, and how a career move has to be told so it reads as deliberate — those are learned inside the recruitment process, not from reading about it.

The Certified Career Analyst qualification adds the other half: a structured, tested method for assessment, rather than an opinion formed in the first ten minutes of a conversation.

Anubhuti Dhawan, Certified Career Analyst

Qualifications

2024
Certified Career Analyst (CCA)
Accredited by BCPA India and ACCPH, UK
2022
Japanese-Language Proficiency, Level N3
The Japan Foundation & Japan Educational Exchanges and Services
2017
MBA, Human Resource Management
Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune
2016
International Business and Cross-cultural Management
International Summer School, Hochschule Bremen, Germany
2015
B.Com, First Division
University of Delhi

Principles

Three rules we hold ourselves to

01

Clarity over opinions

Anyone can give you an opinion about a course. We give you the comparison — eligibility, cost, exams, outcomes — so the choice is yours to make on evidence.

02

Assessment, then conversation

A score on its own decides nothing. It earns its value only once a counsellor connects it to your academic profile and the opportunities actually open to you.

03

Willingness to say no

Telling a student their plan is weak is the useful part of this job. A counsellor who only agrees with you is an expensive mirror.

Talk to us before you decide

One career decision can influence years of your life. A session is the cheapest way to find out whether the plan you have is the right one.

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