From DPharm and HDFC to managing digital marketing for a UAE company.

Soorya studied DPharm and then realised the hospital field wasn't for her. She was drawn to IT-related work — but without a clear direction, she was still working as a Program Coordinator at HDFC. Digital marketing kept coming up as an option. She kept searching for a course that would actually teach her to do it, not just explain what it was.

Her cousin sent her an Unlearn ad. She reached out, visited the Trivandrum campus, and joined the first batch.

What she remembers most about the training was the ratio: very little theory, and most of it hands-on with real client work. The atmosphere was positive — the trainers were talented, present, and genuinely invested in what happened to students after they left. And the work was real from the beginning.

One experience stood out. She worked on Unlearn's first campaign — 'Pani Kittum.' It was a successful campaign, and it was the first time she experienced the full arc: planning, execution, measurement, results. Not as a simulation. As actual work.

When the internship ended, she was selected for campus placement at Adsomia — one of Trivandrum's leading advertising agencies — because of her performance. She joined as a Digital Marketing Executive. During the internship she had handled two clients. At Adsomia, that number grew to more than ten simultaneously.

Adsomia was where she learned what the job actually demanded — client communication, managing multiple campaigns at once, accountability, speed. The confidence that grew there was the kind that comes only from doing the work at volume, under real conditions, with real consequences.

That confidence eventually pointed her toward the UAE. She attended six interviews in three months. In one month alone she received two offer letters. She chose the better one.

Today she works as a Digital Marketing Specialist at Al Tareeq Kitchen Equipment — a commercial stainless steel kitchen manufacturing company — managing their e-commerce website, Meta ads, LinkedIn, and overall digital marketing. Monthly salary: ₹13.2 LPA.