About Arun Kumar Saxena
Founder & CEO, MINDSCAN | Certified Advanced Career Coach | CBSE Resource Person | Author
Arun Kumar Saxena has guided more than 20,000 students, parents and professionals to career decisions backed by evidence instead of guesswork.
He is a Certified Advanced Career Coach and a CBSE Resource Person. He is a Fellow Member of the National HRD Network and a Growth Partner at the HR Association of India. He founded MINDSCAN, recognised among India’s Top 10 Emerging Businesses by Hindustan Times, and wrote 3 Steps to Knowing Yourself.
What sets his guidance apart is where it comes from. Arun brings over two decades across senior corporate leadership at Airtel and Reliance, and career coaching. He has built teams, hired people, run performance reviews, and made promotion calls. So when he tells a student what the working world actually rewards, he isn’t repeating something he read — he’s describing rooms he has sat in.
He then brought that to what he had studied: Psychology. The combination is the whole point. Most career advice in India comes from someone who understands testing but has never hired anyone, or from someone who has hired plenty but has never measured anything.
What Most Parents Are Actually Worried About
Nearly every family arrives with a version of the same question. My child is bright. Why does this decision feel like a coin toss?
Usually because nobody has measured anything. A stream gets chosen on marks. An entrance exam gets picked because a cousin cleared it. A course gets selected because the college name is known. Each choice is reasonable on its own, and together they can quietly cost three years and a great deal of money.
Arun Kumar Saxena’s answer is deliberately unglamorous: measure first, then decide. Find out how this specific student is actually built — aptitude, interests, personality, how they learn — and let the decision follow from that. It is a calmer conversation than the one most families are having, and it usually settles the argument at the dinner table, because everyone is finally looking at the same evidence.
What Working With Arun Kumar Saxena Looks Like
Two parts, designed to work together.
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The Assessment
A structured psychometric assessment covering aptitude, interests, personality traits and learning style. It takes 30 to 45 minutes and you do it from home. It produces a written profile — not a label, but a map of where your strengths actually sit.
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The 1-on-1 Session
A live session on Google Meet or Zoom where Arun Kumar Saxena goes through the report with you. Your constraints go on the table — budget, location, what your family expects — and the options narrow to something you can act on. Parents are welcome, and for school students it is encouraged.
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The Written Plan
You leave with a shortlist of best-fit paths, the exams or applications that matter, and the next concrete steps. Not a vague direction — an actual sequence. Sessions run in Hindi or English.
The MINDSCAN Self-Discovery Method
Alongside the psychometric assessment, Arun Kumar Saxena works with the MINDSCAN Self-Discovery (MSD) technique — a proprietary method he developed and refined across years of practice, and the approach behind his book 3 Steps to Knowing Yourself.
MSD is what turns a set of scores into a picture a student actually recognises as themselves. An assessment can tell you where someone’s aptitude sits. MSD is the work of getting past what a student thinks they should want, to what they are genuinely built for. It is the part of the process families most often say changed the conversation at home.
Who Arun Kumar Saxena Works With
Class 9 & 10 — Choosing a Stream
The single highest-leverage decision in Indian schooling, and one usually made on marks alone.
Class 11 & 12 — Course and Entrance Strategy
Working out which entrance exams genuinely align with a student’s profile, and what the strong options are if they do not.
Graduates and Early-Career Professionals
You have the degree, but the first job does not fit — or you want to move into a field your degree does not obviously lead to.
Mid-Career Change and Returning to Work
A pivot at 30, 35 or 40, or a relaunch after a break. The work here is sequencing: what to learn, how to position it, and what to say about the gap.
Around 20,000 students and professionals have been through this process.
Recognitions & Affiliations
The credentials behind the practice. Arun Kumar Saxena holds each of these in an active, verifiable capacity.
Where to Start
The practice is deliberately online and nationwide. A student in Kota gets the same assessment, the same coach, and the same price as one in Delhi. Arun Kumar Saxena works with students, parents and professionals in every major Indian city, and sessions run in Hindi or English.
If you want the detail on how the process runs, start with online career counselling in India. If you would rather read about your own city, there are pages for Delhi NCR, Lucknow, Kota, Jaipur, Pune, Indore, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
Or simply message on WhatsApp at +91-9140604743 and ask.
Our Mission
To help India’s young people make confident, informed career choices through evidence-based assessment and honest guidance — so that fewer of them spend three years on a degree that leads nowhere, or a decade in work that never matched how they think.
Ready to Discover Your Path?
Book a consultation with Arun Kumar Saxena and take the first step toward career clarity. Start with evidence about you.