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EPISODE · Jan 10, 2026 · 1H 3M

Story of India's fastest growing Jobs platform

from Growthcast with Shashank · host Shashank Srivastava

#Apnajobs #SalariedTalks #jobsinindia 🎙️ Salaried Talks by Apna Jobs is a Career and Professional development Podcast Series, where our host Shashank Srivastava sits down with Industry Experts and Business Professionals and engages with them in a meaningful conversation to uncover their Career Fundamentals and Journeys, that would help Working Professionals in India make better informed career decisions. Since Apna Jobs has multiple job openings for the domain areas that are discussed in the Podcast, so the listener/viewer also gets cool tips and hacks, to improve their Profile on Apna Jobs that would help them in getting their Interview Calls from all the Top Companies that have listed their Job Openings on Apna Jobs.This is a very special episode as this is our Season finale of Salaried Talks powered by Apna Jobs and I had the opportunity of sitting down with COO of Apna Jobs Karna Chokshi and we discussed his journey and vision behind Apna in this episode.Karna is a hustler and strongly believes in mission of Apna that is to make sure that every Indian gets an opportunity to land up a job. He has done his undergraduation from IIT Delhi and MBA from Stanford GSB and was a senior executive at Uber. In this episode we discussed about Apna Jobs, problems the startup is trying to solve for, How big is the India Job market, What should freshers do to stand out and How has Apna become a goto platform for all the Job seekers in India.Do watch the episode till the end to get the nuggets of wisdom that you will not get anywhere else.Time stamps:0:00 - Getting Started1:30 - Karna's Career Journey3:13 - IIT : Was it Always the Plan?5:10 - What Makes IIT Special?6:33 - Life at Stanford10:59 - First Job12:17 - Apna - Leading Job Platform21:55 - Matching Diverse Job Needs24:42 - Importance of Networking26:18 - India's Job Market Landscape29:35 - Understanding SMBs32:20 - Is English Important to Get a Job in India?33:40 - Helping Employers35:16 - Apna's Story40:22 - Apna's Operating Scale44:45 - Will AI Replace Our Jobs?45:56 - Skills Karna Looks for47:36 - Advice for Freshers50:24 - Influencer Ecosystem: How It Impacts Careers51:50 - Rapid Fire Round55:16 - From Employee to Entrepreneur57:04 - Dealing with Failure59:21 - Work Culture at Apna1:00:45 - Keeping Your Team MotivatedDownload Apna Jobs:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apnatime&hl=en_US&pli=1Follow our Guest on LinkedIn:📝 Karna’s' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karnachokshi/Follow Shashank on Social Media:📝 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishashank1/ 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatsalariedguy/📱 Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatSalariedGuyWomen Course Link from Goldman Sachs from Reel:https://www.coursera.org/collections/goldman-sachs-10000-women

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