First jobs and early direction
Choosing between offers, evaluating a company beyond the salary, and knowing which first job compounds.
Career guidance India
Career guidance from people who have already lived the decision.
Anubhav Setu offers experience-based career guidance in India: unhurried conversations with a career mentor who spent thirty or forty years in the working world and has no product to sell you.
Most career advice online is written by people selling a course, a certification or themselves. Career guidance at Anubhav Setu is different: you talk to an experienced mentor — a retired banker, an engineer, a school principal, a founder, a civil servant — who has made and watched the same decision hundreds of times.
We help with the ordinary, difficult things: choosing between two offers, a first job that feels wrong, growth that has stalled for three years, changing industry at 35, returning to work after a caregiving break, or deciding whether to stay in a role that pays well and costs too much.
Nothing is scored or diagnosed. You describe the situation; the mentor asks the questions that reveal what the real decision is; and you leave with options, trade-offs and a sense of what usually happens next.
How it works
- Listen. You describe the situation in your own words — no forms full of jargon.
- Understand. A mentor who has lived something similar asks the questions that clarify the real decision.
- Guide. Options, trade-offs and what usually happens next, from decades of practice.
- Refer. Anything clinical, legal, financial or otherwise regulated goes to our Professional Panel.
What career mentoring covers
Switching fields
What genuinely transfers, what you will have to rebuild, and how long the dip usually lasts.
Stalled growth
Why promotions stopped, whether it is the role, the manager or the market — and what to do in each case.
Returning after a break
Re-entry after caregiving, illness or relocation, with mentors who have done it themselves.
Second innings career
Reinvention after 45: consulting, teaching, advisory work, or a slower role that still means something.
Negotiation and workplace judgement
Reading offers, asking for more, handling a difficult manager, and knowing when to leave.
“Careers are not solved by information. They are solved by judgement — and judgement is borrowed from someone who has already paid for it.”
Tell us the decision you are stuck on and we will match you with a career mentor whose own working life sits closest to it. There is no cost, no upsell and no obligation to follow the advice.
Common questions
- Is this career counselling or psychometric testing?
- Neither. Anubhav Setu offers experience-based guidance — a conversation with someone who has lived the decision. If a matter needs a licensed counsellor or psychologist, we refer you to our Professional Panel.
- Who are the career mentors?
- Experienced professionals, largely aged 50 to 70, drawn from banking, industry, education, healthcare, public service and entrepreneurship. Each is interviewed, oriented and bound by a code of conduct and confidentiality.
- How do I start?
- Send a short note through the Talk to Someone form describing your situation and preferred language, and we will match you with a mentor for a first conversation.
Anubhav Setu is not a clinical or emergency service. Our mentors are experienced adults who share perspective within their competence; they are not positioned as psychologists, doctors, lawyers or financial advisers. Regulated matters are referred to qualified professionals on our panel.