About us
Recruitment, done the way it should have always been done
Recruitment exists because both of our founders were hired badly — and knew the industry could do better than resume roulette.
Our story
From a two-desk office to 6,200 placements
Recruitment started in 2017 in a two-desk office in Mumbai with an unfashionable idea: measure a recruiter by how long their hires stay, not by how fast a fee gets booked. Our first client was a twelve-person startup; our first placement is now their VP of Engineering.
That idea forced everything else. If retention is the metric, screening has to be real — so we built four-stage verification when the industry norm was a keyword search and a phone call. If retention is the metric, candidates have to actually want the jobs — so we banned profile-blasting and made per-role consent the rule.
Nine years later we're 85 people across three offices, with desks in eight industries and more than 6,200 placements made. The metric hasn't changed: 96% of our placements pass their 90-day mark, and we publish that number because we're held to it.
Our mission
To make every placement a long-term success story — by verifying rigorously, matching honestly, and staying accountable long after the joining date.
Our vision
A hiring market where candidates are treated like people, employers get evidence instead of noise, and 'recruitment agency' is a term of trust.
What we stand for
Four values, applied daily
Values only matter when they cost you something. These have cost us fees, mandates and easy shortcuts — and built everything we have.
Truth over placement
If a candidate isn't right, we say so — even when staying quiet would close the deal. We've lost fees to this value and gained every long-term client because of it.
Candidates are clients too
No fees, no spam, no ghosting. Every candidate gets honest feedback and a consultant who actually knows their market — whether or not we place them this time.
Evidence beats instinct
Scorecards over gut feel, live market data over stale surveys, structured interviews over vibes. We bring the receipts to every recommendation.
Accountable after the offer
The placement isn't done at the joining date. Structured 30/60/90-day check-ins and real guarantees keep us invested in the outcome.
Milestones
Nine years, briefly
- 2017
Founded in Mumbai
Two desks, one rule: never send a profile you wouldn't hire yourself.
- 2019
1,000th placement
Technology and BFSI desks established; four-stage screening formalised.
- 2021
Healthcare practice launched
Clinical screening panel and direct licence verification set a new bar.
- 2022
Bengaluru & Gurugram offices
RPO practice launched with our first embedded 120-hire engagement.
- 2024
5,000th placement
Payroll & compliance practice crosses 10,000 workers paid monthly.
- 2026
6,200+ placements and counting
85 people, 8 industry desks, 300+ active hiring partners.
Leadership
The people behind the placements
Every leader at Recruitment has worked inside the industries they now hire for. That's not a coincidence — it's the hiring bar.
Meera Raghavan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Meera spent twelve years leading talent acquisition for two unicorns before founding Recruitment with a simple conviction: recruitment should be measured by how long a hire succeeds, not how fast a fee is booked.
Executive SearchTalent StrategyTechnology Hiring
Arjun Bhattacharya
Co-founder & Head of Client Partnerships
A former sales leader who was hired badly twice and brilliantly once, Arjun built our client practice around a rule he refuses to break: never send a profile you wouldn't hire yourself.
BFSISales Leadership HiringRPO Design
Dr. Kavitha Menon
Head of Healthcare Practice
A former hospital administrator with an MBBS and a hospital-management doctorate, Kavitha leads our clinical screening panels and is the reason our healthcare verification standard exists.
Clinical HiringCredential VerificationHospital Operations
Sandeep Chauhan
Head of Delivery & Compliance
Sandeep ran multi-state payroll operations for 30,000 contingent workers before joining Recruitment. He owns our zero-penalty compliance record and intends to keep it that way.
Payroll OperationsLabour ComplianceContract Staffing
Trust & compliance
The standards we operate under
Handling careers and hiring plans is a responsibility. These are the commitments every engagement inherits automatically.
Encrypted data handling
India-hosted, encrypted at rest and in transit, access-controlled by mandate.
Consent-first process
No profile leaves our system without the candidate's explicit per-role approval.
NDA-protected engagements
Client mandates and candidate identities protected by strict confidentiality.
Full statutory compliance
PF, ESI, PT and labour-law obligations met with a zero-penalty record.