Kritika R.
Recruitment Consultant | Recruiter for Startups | AI in Recruiting
🏆 Top Rated Freelancer · 100% Job Success Score · 100% Client Retention The best candidates for your open roles are not on job boards. They're working somewhere else — and not looking. I find them, engage them, and bring them to your table. I'm a full-time freelance Recruitment Consultant and Fractional Talent Acquisition Partner with 6+ years of end-to-end recruitment experience, including 5+ years specifically helping US and UK-based startups build their teams in India and across international markets — alongside MSMEs and Fortune 500 enterprises across the US, UK, Europe, Singapore, and India. I've been doing this full-time, as a contractor and freelancer, for years — and I'm actively taking on new projects now. I don't operate like a transactional recruiter. I work as a strategic hiring partner embedded in your process — understanding your product, your culture, your urgency, and your growth stage before making a single outreach. What makes me different? Most recruiters post a job and wait. I source proactively, and I build the systems behind the hire. AI Implementation & AI-Powered Recruitment: I implement AI-assisted sourcing and screening workflows, no-code recruiting automation (Zapier, Make, n8n), and recruiting operations that let lean startup teams hire like they have a full in-house TA function, even without one. I've also recruited for AI-based startups directly — filling some of the hardest roles in the market, including founding engineers and AI/ML engineers, where there is zero margin for a bad hire. With a LinkedIn Premium account, 22K+ professional connections, and a sourcing toolkit refined over years of real hiring, I go where top talent actually lives — niche technical communities, GitHub, Discord servers, alumni networks, referral chains, and targeted passive candidate outreach. My approach adapts to your reality: a seed-stage startup needs speed and founder-culture alignment. A Series B or enterprise team needs structured pipelines and compliance-ready documentation. I adjust the strategy. Roles I Hire For: ✦ Founding Engineers, AI/ML Engineers & Data Scientists ✦ Full Stack, Backend & Frontend Developers ✦ Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure Engineers ✦ Product Managers & Product Designers ✦ Data Analysts & Business Intelligence Professionals ✦ Marketing, Growth & Performance Professionals ✦ Operations, CRM & Business Support Roles How I Can Support You: → End-to-End Recruitment — sourcing through offer closure → AI Implementation in Recruitment & Recruiting Automation → LinkedIn Talent Sourcing & Passive Candidate Outreach → Startup Hiring — Seed through Series B and beyond → US/UK Startup Team Building in India & International Markets → Global & Cross-Border Recruitment (US, UK, EU, SG, IN) → Technical & Non-Technical Hiring → Candidate Screening, Assessment & Interview Coordination → ATS Setup & Hiring Workflow Optimization → Bulk Hiring & Campus Recruitment Initiatives Track Record: ⚡ ~98% Offer Acceptance Rate ⚡ ~98–99% Candidate Joining Ratio ⚡ Technical roles closed in as little as 7 days ⚡ Fortune 500 clients: Apple, Delta Air Lines, Corning, and others ⚡ Startup and enterprise teams across US, UK, Europe, Singapore & India If you're building a team and want a recruiter who thinks like a talent strategist, not a resume-forwarding machine, send me a message. Tell me about the role, the team, and the timeline. I'll tell you exactly how I'd approach it. Let's make your next hire your best hire.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $1.1k
Billed in all: $20,625$21k
$284 in the last 6 months
Across 21 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 23% in Interview Training
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