10 Unique HR Recruitment Firms Supporting Startups in India

HR recruiting agencies in India streamline the hiring process, offer specialized knowledge, cost and time savings, access to a large talent pool, screening and assessment services, confidentiality, market insights, and flexibility. They benefit companies and job seekers by promoting better matches and enhancing talent acquisition efficiency. HR recruitment firms support startups in building strong teams, attracting top personnel, and expanding their market presence. There are companies pursuing the same goal that have excelled in the industry by giving their clients the best service available in every aspect.

Here is the list of some unique HR recruitment firms in India to watch out in 2023:

Biojobz

Established in 2007 by Dr. Ganesh Nikam, Biojobz is a specialized Executive search for the Bio-Pharma industry. It specializes in realizing how important it is to identify and secure the best personnel in accordance with organizational needs. Talent acquisition, industry talent landscape/mapping, and recruitment solutions for Indians who have returned from overseas are among the key offerings. The company also specializes in headhunting for Leadership roles in Research & Development, General Management, Engineering & Projects, Supply Chain, Quality, Strategy, R&D, Clinical Research, and Operations.

SutraHR

SutraHR is one of the top HR companies in India search firms which was founded in 2008. Pioneers in startup hiring, they’ve worked with over 500 clients since their inception. They realize the importance of hiring the right talent for growing your business. SutraHR has dedicated teams working on Tech, Non-Tech, Bulk, and Product requirements and has a TAT of 24 hours. They have clients spread across India and globally in places like Malaysia, Singapore, the Middle East, Indonesia, and the UK. With a strong team of recruiters and an exhaustive database, they close a position every 12 hours.

ZappyHire

Kochi, Kerala-based ZappyHire founded in 2018 by Deepu Xavier and Jyothis KS is an intelligent recruitment platform helping enterprises spot and onboard the best talent faster utilizing AI. Zappyhire’s intelligent recruitment platform helps users find the best candidates and improve time-to-hire while providing candidates with an amazing recruitment experience. Zappyhire’s AI-powered solution helps its users find the best people for their organization. It automates the recruitment process end-to-end and helps users make powerful decisions with insightful data.

ZingHR

Founded in 2014 by Prasad Rajappan, ZingHR offers a complete solution of the end-to-end processes in HR through Artificial Intelligence, Machine, and Deep Learning algorithms which help to improve employee performance and drives process efficiency in recruitment offer ease of leave, attendance, payroll, and claim management. It offers almost all web/mobile-based modules from Hire to Retire Solutions with a state-of-the-art tech supporting those applications. ZingHR has partnered with global and regional organizations like Microsoft, SHRM, and NHRDN for adding value to ZingHR's outreach program. It adopts an employee-centric, mobile-first approach covering the entire spectrum from employee recruitment to employee exit. It is been backed by Microsoft.

Bridgentech

Bridgentech is a boutique contract hiring staffing and solutions provider. BRIDGENTECH engages and distributes an exclusive global IT talent pool of Indian origin preferred by businesses of all sizes; Uniquely merging remote staffing, IT delivery, training, and recruitment processes into one customizable service. The company was founded in 2018 by Piyush Raj Akhoury. The company blends the best of contractual IT outsourcing with focused strategic IT recruitment.

Startup HR Toolkit

Mumbai-based StartupHR Toolkit founded in 2019 by Waqar Azmi is on a mission to change the way companies look at Human Resource Management. The toolkit has been carefully structured and designed by SutraHR based on their experience of managing HR operations for startups and established companies. One can customize them as per preferences and needs. The toolkit comprises documents related to COVID-19, employee policies, hiring, performance review, statutory, recruitment, HR forms, and HR letters.

CutShort.io

CutShort.io takes care for all hiring needs by matching with only relevant companies based on the candidate’s professional background, career interests and skill competencies. It uses matchmaking algorithm, gamification techniques and Artificial Intelligence for the internal screening process to track the candidate on professional social network platforms such as Githhub or Dribble and fetches recommendations that are confidential from ex-bosses or managers.

CutShort is also a comprehensive database on salaries which helps to check a candidate's value and salary based on metrics like industry experience and job title. CutShort.io aggregates all inbound applications in one place based on their relevance, skill strength, industry background, and recruiter's past action and uses machine learning to remove non-matching applications and highlight the strongest matching candidates.

Apna

Founded in 2019 by Nirmit Parikh, Apna follows a tech-driven approach to use the power of communities and enable access to better jobs and entrepreneurship for millions of Apna’s users. It comprises 60+ communities for skilled professionals like carpenters, painters, field sales agents, and many others.

The platform aims to double down on its ed-tech platform for skilling by continuing to invest in hiring exceptional talent and building world-class engineering and product capabilities. Apna users get access to local job opportunities, network with peers, practice for interviews, share their accomplishments, and gain new skills. The platform has onboarded more than 10 million users and 100,000+ employers etc.

Mettl

Mettl, a Gurugram-based HR technology startup, was launched in 2009 by Ketan Kapoor and Tonmoy Shingal with the goal of leveraging technology for hiring practices in Indian and global enterprises. This tech firm offers recruitment assessments, programming tests, psychometric tests, aptitude tests, a pre-built test library of more than 200 tests, an interview app, vocational skills assessment, remote proctoring, analytics in performance optimisation, and a certification platform. The company has its presence across 100 countries, serving over 1,800 clients globally.

Darwinbox

Darwinbox, an Indian Saas startup established in 2015 by Jayant Paleti, Chaitanya Peddi, and Rohit Chennamaneni, is a cloud-based HR solutions firm. The platform’s AI engine allows a recruiter to analyze a job description and employee profile picking up keywords to arrive at a certain ranking metric. This three-year-old HR tech brand serves over 100 clients, including Paytm, Ekart, Spencer’s, Delhivery, and others.

Recruiters Opt for Virtual Interviews & Assessments as the New Way of Hiring on Campuses; Firstnaukri.com Survey

Firstnaukri.com, India’s largest end-to-end campus hiring platform from the house of Naukri.com, conducted a survey with over 1,300 students across campuses in India. The survey was rolled out to understand their sentiments about placements and internships amidst the current crisis. The survey revealed that the pandemic has adversely affected the campus-hiring scenario. Amid the panic of unemployment & lay-offs, only one-third of the students confirmed that they have a job offer at hand. Out of these students, close to 44% reported that their joining dates have been delayed while another 9% confirmed that their offers have been rolled back. Close to 33% said that the employers are not responding to them on the status of their job offers. Now, a majority of students are fast switching to online job portals to hunt for a job while another 17% are taking the referral route and connecting with their college alumni. 

The companies are postponing campus drives and resorting to new age technology solutions, including virtual interviews and online assessments to recruit candidates from various campuses. It will be imperative for students to start preparing for remote interviews as the new way of being hired. 

Commenting on the survey, Sharad Sindhwani, Business Head, Firstnaukri.com said, “The pandemic has hit placement prospects of the 2020 batch across 82% colleges. It has further impacted internship offers of 74% pre-final year students. However, students are not losing their morale and going virtual for their learning as well as job interviews. In fact, most companies are also using new age technology solutions to hire remotely.” 

In these tough times, online courses and certifications are the first choices amongst freshers to bridge any skill /knowledge gap. 70% of college students have already subscribed to online courses. Interestingly, the current pandemic has not impacted the higher education plans of 80% surveyed graduates. A large majority of students are also considering freelancing as a viable future career option.

Methodology

The COVID-19 jobseeker study was done to gauge the impact of ongoing pandemic on fresher placements in India. The survey was carried out with the college students of all batches (2020 to 2023) across several courses. The results are based on over 1300+ responses out of which 80% are responses from students pursuing BE/B.Tech degree. Based on this data, we have arrived at insights that we hope will shed light on the current campus placement scenario in India. 

About Firstnaukri.com

Firstnaukri.com is India’s largest end-to-end campus hiring platform from the house of Naukri.com. The brand digitizes and automates campus recruitments for campuses and connects them with potential recruiters looking for fresh talent across courses and across campuses. As of now, the brand has over 8000 associated campuses and has serviced close to 5000+ companies. Firstnaukri organized close to 35,000+ placements last year. 

Talster - An Application Tracking Software Automate Recruitment Process

India being the second largest population in the world, has human resource in abundance. Every year we have a fresh lot of hundreds of graduates entering in the market for jobs. With so much talent available so easily, it becomes more and more difficult for recruiters to narrow down on that one person most suitable for the job. This is where an Application Tracking Software (ATS) comes to their rescue. An ATS acts as a lifeline for fast growing organisations as it helps them lower their recruitment cost, improve collaboration among stakeholders and increase administrative efficiency by helping them in making the right choice for the job.

Talster founded in 2013 is one of the fastest growing application tracking software available in the market. It is a Mumbai based startup that offers to manage the complete selection and recruitment process right from creating a job description, helping in the vacancy announcement, organizing job interviews and finally, sending out the offer letters to the selected candidates. It even provides an in-depth analysis on the efficiency of this whole recruitment process. The company has two different user interfaces, one for hiring consultants and the other for corporates.

Co-founded by Dhruv Patel and Vikrant Paraskar, Talster has an aim of revolutionizing the way recruiters manage their hiring process. By using Talster, recruiters can easily manage responses congregated via multiple talent sourcing avenues including social media sites and resume repositories all at one single place, that too automatically. With Talster, recruiters no longer need to maintain those complicated spreadsheets to keep an account of their recruitment campaigns. The software maintains the records for them.



Talster is a product of NextCubicle Internet Service Pvt. Ltd, a company founded by Dhruv Patel.  Dhruv has an experience of 6+ years in the IT sector and has worked as a Senior Manger Product Development at Zycus. He started NextCubicle with a mission of bringing automation in hiring with intelligence. It is an Intelligent Relevant Hiring platform that aims to connect experienced jobseekers and employers in a truly unique, pioneering and relevant manner.

Talster makes sure that people spend less time in managing the process and more time on hiring. It’s possibly the most user friendly, powerful and economical ATS software available in the market.

Talster - An Application Tracking Software Automate Recruitment Process

India being the second largest population in the world, has human resource in abundance. Every year we have a fresh lot of hundreds of graduates entering in the market for jobs. With so much talent available so easily, it becomes more and more difficult for recruiters to narrow down on that one person most suitable for the job. This is where an Application Tracking Software (ATS) comes to their rescue. An ATS acts as a lifeline for fast growing organisations as it helps them lower their recruitment cost, improve collaboration among stakeholders and increase administrative efficiency by helping them in making the right choice for the job.

Talster founded in 2013 is one of the fastest growing application tracking software available in the market. It is a Mumbai based startup that offers to manage the complete selection and recruitment process right from creating a job description, helping in the vacancy announcement, organizing job interviews and finally, sending out the offer letters to the selected candidates. It even provides an in-depth analysis on the efficiency of this whole recruitment process. The company has two different user interfaces, one for hiring consultants and the other for corporates.

Co-founded by Dhruv Patel and Vikrant Paraskar, Talster has an aim of revolutionizing the way recruiters manage their hiring process. By using Talster, recruiters can easily manage responses congregated via multiple talent sourcing avenues including social media sites and resume repositories all at one single place, that too automatically. With Talster, recruiters no longer need to maintain those complicated spreadsheets to keep an account of their recruitment campaigns. The software maintains the records for them.



Talster is a product of NextCubicle Internet Service Pvt. Ltd, a company founded by Dhruv Patel.  Dhruv has an experience of 6+ years in the IT sector and has worked as a Senior Manger Product Development at Zycus. He started NextCubicle with a mission of bringing automation in hiring with intelligence. It is an Intelligent Relevant Hiring platform that aims to connect experienced jobseekers and employers in a truly unique, pioneering and relevant manner.

Talster makes sure that people spend less time in managing the process and more time on hiring. It’s possibly the most user friendly, powerful and economical ATS software available in the market.