Founder & CEO, HiredNext · Entrepreneur · Executive Talent Advisor & Coach
Taru Shikha works across executive search, leadership and specialist hiring, executive and career coaching, and senior-professional positioning in India. As Founder & CEO of HiredNext Recruitment, she combines business-building experience, direct-search judgement, career strategy, candidate assessment and responsible use of AI in hiring.
Taru’s perspective comes from both sides of the talent market: advising employers on critical hires and helping senior professionals communicate their experience, leadership value and next-career narrative more clearly.
She writes and comments on executive search, leadership hiring, executive and career coaching, senior-professional positioning, CV and LinkedIn strategy, AI-assisted recruitment, skills-first hiring, workplace change and entrepreneurship.
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.
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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.
Yes. Alongside recruitment and executive-search work, Taru Shikha coaches and advises senior professionals on career positioning, leadership narrative, CV and LinkedIn strategy, interview preparation, career transitions and how to present experience more clearly to decision-makers.
Taru Shikha is an entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of HiredNext Recruitment. Her work spans executive search, specialist recruitment, employer advisory, executive and career coaching, CV and LinkedIn positioning, and services that help senior professionals communicate their experience more effectively.
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.