Why growing companies bring in a recruitment partner
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Recruitment across India
Finance, accounting, analytics, AI and leadership talent across India's eight main hiring markets, priced against the city rather than a national average.
Where we hire
The same role can differ by half again between Bengaluru and Kolkata. Pick the city you are hiring in.
Bengaluru
GCCs set the benchmark, which keeps pay high and tenure short.…
Mumbai
Financial services set the price, and they pay in bonus as well as fixed. A brief benchmarked against a manufacturing band will not lan…
Delhi NCR
Gurugram is the GCC and consulting belt, with pay benchmarked against global parents.…
Hyderabad
Cost and retention are the draw: below Bengaluru on fixed pay, and people stay longer.…
Pune
Two markets in one city: the GCC belt hires like Bengaluru, slightly cheaper, and the manufacturing corridor pays on a different curve.…
Chennai
Retention is the best among the big five cities, which suits process-heavy finance and long-cycle engineering work.…
Ahmedabad
Gujarat produces a large number of CAs and many stay, giving unusual depth in accounting at a cost well below Bengaluru or Mumbai.…
Kolkata
The accounting base is deep and loyal, and candidates stay with an employer for years rather than months.…
Why city matters
We benchmark against the employers competing for your candidate, in your city.
Pay, notice periods, attrition and commute tolerance all move city by city. Every search we open starts with the city before the role.
How we run a search →For global teams
If your head office is outside India, start from the country page: entity, payroll, time zones and compliance.
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India hiring questions
Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata, run from our Bengaluru base with candidates met locally.
A great deal for the same role, so we benchmark by city and by the specific employers competing for the person.
Bengaluru for technology and AI depth, Hyderabad and Pune for cost and retention, Mumbai for financial services, Ahmedabad for offshore accounting, Chennai for manufacturing finance.
A percentage of annual fixed pay for contingency, a staged fee for retained leadership search, and a monthly rate for dedicated team hiring, all agreed in writing before the search starts.
From our founder
Nikita Agrawal on how we hire, in under a minute. In Hindi and English.
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