Recruise played a pivotal role in scaling our capability centre. Their intelligence-led approach helped us build critical teams faster than we anticipated.
Director – GCC OperationsGlobal Pharma Enterprise
The Recruise origin story.
Behind the number, 94% 12-month retention since 2014, is a twenty-year story of learning to find the rare senior people and retain them.
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2006
A quality engineer walks into recruitment.
Before Sachith ever placed a single candidate, he'd spent several years in operational quality at Tata Consultancy Services, Hewlett Packard and Hinduja Global Solutions. So when he started Recruise in Bengaluru in 2006, he brought the only discipline he knew: map the process, then measure what actually comes out the other end.
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The hard ones
The searches everyone else gave back.
The mandates that made Recruise's name were the ones nobody else wanted to touch. Biostatisticians handed back as unfillable. A Partner-level hire into Japan. A CTO the market swore did not exist. Recruise said yes to all of them, because a systems thinker looks at a search everyone calls impossible and sees a map waiting to be drawn. It filled most of them. Right over easy, years before that was ever a stated value.
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2014
The year the habit became a number.
From the start, Recruise did the thing most firms never bother with. It kept score. It wrote down what happened once someone was in the seat, six months on, a year on. In 2014 it turned that quiet habit into a standard, and began tracking every senior leader it placed, for years after they joined, against a single unforgiving question: did they stay?
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Today
Twenty years, one question, one ledger.
Ask anyone here what they are proudest of and they will point to the builds. One global pharma GCC taken from 0 to 500 people over four years. A research and advisory team grown from single digits to roughly 600. Around 300 healthcare hires between 2018 and 2022. A retail GCC going from 50 to 300 right now, in real time.
Twenty years on, Recruise runs on the same instinct it started with. Map before you move. Measure what you ship. Tell the truth about the result. The difference now is that it can prove all of it, because it kept the record of every senior hire and what became of them. That ledger now has a name: the Rare-Hire Record™.