CAREERGUIDE

CareerGuide.com is India's Largest Career Counselling Platform. About CareerGuide: CareerGuide.com is a platform for students to get their career questions answered by the right experts. With over 1000+ Career Counselors in the marketplace, we have more than 5000 years of cumulative career counselling experience. It has an integrated 3-tier solution to provide instant, accessible, flexible and affordable career guidance and planning for all career aspirants: • Guidance: A platform whi... ch help students get Instant answers to all their career queries and get expert backed career advice. • Explorations: Our knowledge-base of over 115000 question answered by our career experts has become a very useful exploration tool for students serving as a Wikipedia for career. • Assessment: A series of psychometric assessments to scientifically & holistically access a student’s personality interests, aptitude, motivation and personality. Team: CareerGuide is a young and dynamic team having experience in technology, marketing and education. A lean startup with some very smart people working behind the scene working towards making it the next big EdTech story. The core team members include: Surabhi Dewra – CEO (BITS Pilani with 8+yrs of experience) Love Chopra – CTO (10+Yrs of experience with fortune 500 company) Amarjeet Sharma – CMO ( 15+Yrs of experience as digital marketer with top brands of the world) Numbers: • More than 80K career aspirants visit CareerGuide every month and traffic numbers are growing 13% MoM. • Our Career counsellor enrolment numbers in the marketplace have crossed 1000+ in three months • Freemium and Paid subscriber numbers are growing with a MoM run-rate of 14% & 6% respectively. Revenue Streams: • We offer a free Q&A session with a career counsellor of 10 mins as a hook for students. • We charge students Rs.1000 for an hour long Q&A session with career counsellors and psychometric career tests • Huge Potential for future revenue stream from colleges and institutes across country. Market: • In India, education is the 2nd largest household expenditure (14%) • India has a ration of 1 Career Counsellor to 13000 student • 500 million student population • 280,000 institutes Untapped multibillion opportunities at both career guidance and admission advertisements. Future Plans: • CareerGuide plans to roll-out college listing to make the product end to end solution for any career aspirant within FY 16. This will take the product to the next level where planning and execution can be done in a single platform. • The inclusion of College listing will open yet another revenue stream by leveraging advertisements and affiliate marketing. • We plan to optimize and augment our offline channels by leveraging our Career Counsellors network to create CareerGuide branded canters across 75 cities in India in the FY 17 • We are planning to take CareerGuide global by FY17, starting from Indian Sub-continent. • We aim to serve 10 million students in the coming academic year and is building capacity to serve them effectively. • And we are all set to enroll another 4000 career counsellor to bring the ratio per student down to 1:2000.More