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This post was published on 08th June, 2026 by Shivangi on her Instagram handle "@shivangi.shrivastava2 (Shivangi Shrivastava | Corporate Trainer | Career Growth Coach)". Shivangi has total 85.2K followers on Instagram and has a total of 942 post.This post has received 158 Likes which are lower than the average likes that Shivangi gets. Shivangi receives an average engagement rate of 0.42% per post on Instagram. This post has received 25 comments which are lower than the average comments that Shivangi gets. Overall the engagement rate for this post was lower than the average for the profile.