Journey to Job: Real Career Stories is a chill, conversation-style podcast where your hosts Ankit and Himanshu sit down with guests from all kinds of fields to unpack how they really built their careers.
No corporate buzzwords. No perfect LinkedIn stories. Just honest, funny, and unfiltered chats about choices, mistakes, lucky breaks, and everything in between.
Made for students and early-career listeners, this show keeps things relaxed — for both guests and the audience — so conversations feel more like a coffee chat than an interview.
You'll walk away with practical ideas, new perspective
Chetan Sharma is a Growth & Digital Marketing Leader with more than 18 years of experience spanning fintech, travel, e-commerce, and edtech.
In this episode, hosts Ankit and Himanshu unpack the counterintuitive career philosophy that has driven every move Chetan has made: staying loyal to a craft rather than an industry.
Chetan explains how he spotted digital marketing as an emerging field with no entry barrier, why he has never once switched to a competitor within the same industry, and how COVID forced his most dramatic pivot — only to reveal just how far he had quietly grown at ClearTrip, from managing one hotels category to heading marketing across India and the Middle East.
He also shares his current hiring lens: AI fluency is no longer a bonus — it is the baseline, and the window to develop it is closing fast.
Reach Chetan on his LinkedIn profile - Chetan Sharma | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetansharma1985/)
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Himanshu Nassa | LinkedIn || (www.linkedin.com/in/himanshu-nassa-62283413) Ankit Gupta | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitgupta404/)
1 Nov 2026
No LinkedIn, No Regrets
What happens when a global financial crisis derails your dream job — and the role you never wanted turns into a 17-year career you'd choose all over again?
In this episode, hosts Ankit and Himanshu sit down with Dhruv Yadav, Deputy General Manager at Power Finance Corporation, to trace an accidental but deeply fulfilling journey through India's public-sector power landscape.
Dhruv opens up about how the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse rewrote his placement plans, why he still doesn't have a LinkedIn profile, and what a public-sector career really offers that private-sector fast tracks cannot — rare, policy-shaping exposure at the highest levels of government and regulation. He also breaks down how India's renewable energy sector is evolving from standalone solar to wind-solar hybridisation and battery storage, explains the A-curve and V-curve complementarity that is driving hybrid mandates, and shares the techno-commercial skills that make his role genuinely unique.
His advice to freshers is both honest and warm: every job has its pluses and minuses, your journey is unique to you, and you never know where your real opportunity will come from.
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Himanshu Nassa | LinkedIn || (www.linkedin.com/in/himanshu-nassa-62283413) Ankit Gupta | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitgupta404/)
25 Oct 2026
Take the next action
In Episode 4 of Journey to Job, Manasvi Bhushan shares how she moved from a steady corporate career in human resources to building a creative business as a Founder and Creative Director.
We talk about leaving a predictable path, becoming a new parent in a new country, finding her way through jewelry-making and craft, working with artisans, bootstrapping a brand, and learning to handle the operational side of entrepreneurship.
Manasvi’s advice is simple but powerful: take small actions, reach out to people, accept that failure is part of the process, and listen to your gut. Real stories. Real people. No filter.
Reach Manasvi on her LinkedIn profile - Manasvi Bhushan | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmanasvi)
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Himanshu Nassa | LinkedIn || (www.linkedin.com/in/himanshu-nassa-62283413) Ankit Gupta | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitgupta404/)
18 Oct 2026
When the Plan Breaks, Build Again
Mansi Gambhir went from engineering and eight years in corporate roles at Infosys and Royal Bank of Scotland to building consumer brands of her own.
In Episode 3, Mansi talks with Ankit and Himanshu about leaving the comfort of a fixed salary, learning the fashion and manufacturing business hands-on, and turning a COVID-era business crisis into the launch of Gusto. She also shares how Eko grew from a family conversation, why founders should start small and test product-market fit, how a team creates more bandwidth, and why AI and simple systems are becoming essential as a business grows.
This is an honest conversation about entrepreneurship without the glamour filter: cash flow, mistakes, customer research, family support, team building, and the courage to keep going when the plan changes.
Reach Mansi on her LinkedIn profile - Mansi Gambhir | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mansi-gambhir-11758118/)
Find us on Instagram - @journey2job (https://www.instagram.com/journey2job?stkn=NHl0eTVuaXM2OTBn)
YouTube - Journey to Job Stories (https://www.youtube.com/@JourneyToJobStories)
Reach us on LinkedIn
Himanshu Nassa | LinkedIn || (www.linkedin.com/in/himanshu-nassa-62283413) Ankit Gupta | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitgupta404/)
11 Oct 2026
The courage to say yes
Ankita Jaitly has learned to say yes even when the next step feels uncertain. With a degree in political science, an early job that did not fit, an MBA in entrepreneurship, and a career spanning countries and roles, she built her path one curious decision at a time.
In Episode 2, Ankita talks with Ankit and Himanshu about making bold decisions, living with uncertainty and imposter syndrome, finding mentors, learning from setbacks, and figuring things out one step at a time.
Reach Ankita on her LinkedIn profile - Ankita Jaitly | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankita-jaitly-49162919/)
Find us on Instagram - @journey2job (https://www.instagram.com/journey2job?stkn=NHl0eTVuaXM2OTBn)
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Himanshu Nassa | LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/himanshu-nassa-62283413)
Ankit Gupta | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitgupta404/)
2 Oct 2026
Where the journey begins
Before the guests, the advice, and the career stories, there were two hosts still figuring it out themselves.
In this introductory episode, Ankit and Himanshu share their own career experiences, the choices and turns that shaped them, and why they are starting Journey to Job.
Find us on Instagram - @journey2job (https://www.instagram.com/journey2job?stkn=NHl0eTVuaXM2OTBn)
Reach us on LinkedIn
Himanshu Nassa | LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/himanshu-nassa-62283413)
Ankit Gupta | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitgupta404/)
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