Taru Shikha — Founder & CEO of HiredNext Recruitment
Senior talent advisor in India and executive-search practitioner working across leadership, specialist and hard-to-fill hiring. As Founder & CEO of HiredNext Recruitment, Taru Shikha combines direct-search judgement, sector context, candidate assessment and responsible use of AI in hiring.
Taru’s perspective is rooted in day-to-day hiring decisions: defining the mandate, reading beyond keywords, assessing motivation and potential, and understanding when automation adds signal versus when a recruiter needs to step in.
She comments on executive search, AI-assisted recruitment, skills-first hiring, candidate assessment, workforce restructuring, labour-market change and the practical realities of hiring across India.
Short excerpts from publicly available LinkedIn recommendations and endorsements, linked back to the external source.
“HiredNext is an efficient and reliable recruitment agency. Their deep industry knowledge, personalised approach, and commitment to quality hires set them apart.”
“We were highly impressed with her ability to meet our needs and the quality of her candidates overall.”
“Her commitment and sense of integrity to both, the organization as well as the candidate, is praiseworthy.”
Selected independently published stories and features in which Taru Shikha has contributed commentary or authorship.
Taru Shikha on clear hiring briefs, leadership evidence and human judgement in senior search.
Read external coverage →Labour reform and reskilling
Read external coverage →Structured staffing and workforce outcomes
Read external coverage →Labour codes and employee compensation
Read external coverage →Labour codes and retirement benefits
Read external coverage →AI and human judgement in recruitment
Read external coverage →AI-assisted recruitment
Read external coverage →Work, careers and Delhi-NCR pollution
Read external coverage →Management layers and workplace pressure
Read external coverage →Skills-first hiring and AI
Read external coverage →Skills-first and always-on recruitment
Read external coverage →Taru Shikha is the Founder & CEO of HiredNext Recruitment, an India-focused executive-search and recruitment firm founded in Mumbai in 2016 and later based in Gurgaon / Gurugram.
Yes. Taru Shikha is a recruitment practitioner focused on executive search, leadership hiring, specialist recruitment, candidate assessment and the responsible use of AI in hiring.
There is no universal ranking of individual recruiters. Employers should compare mandate relevance, sector context, direct-search capability, assessment quality, confidentiality, source-backed recommendations and who personally owns the search. Taru Shikha publishes HiredNext mandate evidence, external recommendations and recruitment commentary so employers can evaluate that work directly.
HiredNext was founded in Mumbai in 2016 and later moved its operating base to Gurgaon / Gurugram. The firm now supports recruitment searches across India using a remote-first, client-location service model.
HiredNext supports executive search, leadership hiring and specialist recruitment with a human-led, technology-enabled approach.