Founded at the height of the COVID-19 crisis in July 2020, Erekrut has rapidly emerged as a trailblazer in HR-tech, redefining the future of recruitment through advanced AI-driven innovation. By embedding speed, precision, and reliability into every stage of the hiring journey, the platform delivers transformative outcomes at scale.
At the core of its offering lies a suite of powerful recruitment tools—Talent Suite, OneDayHire, Virtual Campus Drive, and ARDEX—each engineered to simplify and accelerate the hiring process. Talent Suite ensures delivery of 20–40 thoroughly pre-screened candidates within just 5–8 days. OneDayHire delivers instant access to 50–100 active job seekers in as little as 30 minutes. Virtual Campus Drive completes bulk campus placements across institutions in under 15 days. Meanwhile, ARDEX provides recruiters with a vast database of over 8 million candidate profiles, bolstered by skill assessments for 2,400+ roles and a curated question bank of more than 195,000 entries.
Erekrut’s impact is undeniable. With a network spanning 5,400+ recruiters, 1,000+ campuses, and 12,000+ live job listings, the platform exemplifies unmatched scalability and operational efficiency.
What truly sets Erekrut apart is its unwavering commitment to innovation, transparency, and customer-centricity. By empowering recruiters, academic institutions, and job seekers alike, it positions itself as a force reshaping the talent acquisition landscape in India.
In an exclusive conversation with The Interview World at MSME Mahotsav 2025, Ajay Goyal, Co-founder and CEO of Erekrut, shared his strategic vision. He detailed how the company leverages AI to enhance recruitment outcomes, tackled the intricacies of autonomous screening systems, and offered insights into Erekrut’s impressive conversion success. He also revealed the company’s upcoming innovations and charted a roadmap for long-term expansion and sustainable growth.
Here are the key takeaways from this compelling exchange.
Q: How is Erekrut transforming the hiring space by leveraging emerging technologies like AI to simplify and enhance recruitment efficiency?
A: We rank among India’s fastest-growing platforms for AI-powered, guaranteed hiring. What sets us apart is our advanced AI model, which goes far beyond leveraging internal datasets. We actively tap into a vast talent pool of over 400 million candidates through intelligent integration with major search engines like Google.
Traditional recruitment often involves a tedious process—posting jobs, sourcing resumes, reaching out to candidates, and waiting for responses. Our AI eliminates that inefficiency. It automates every step, from scouting and screening to sourcing, and consistently delivers the right hires within just five to eight days, tailored precisely to the required skill set and location.
Notably, we are pioneers in this space. In fact, we take pride in being the first company in India to implement this fully automated recruitment consultancy model at scale. Our innovation is not confined by borders—we’re transforming hiring practices globally.
Today, we serve a diverse portfolio of over 6,000 organizations, including multinational corporations, staffing consultancies, high-growth startups, and more. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, validating the impact of our approach.
Moreover, our reach extends beyond the private sector. We actively collaborate with MSMEs, emerging startups, and government institutions, driving meaningful change across India’s employment ecosystem.
Q: How does Erekrut address the growing challenge of candidates using AI to outsmart autonomous screening systems during the hiring process?
A: As AI becomes more widely used to both create resumes and hire talent, the risks of manipulation have grown. Recognizing this, we built our AI model not just for efficiency—but for integrity.
While many candidates misuse AI to fabricate or enhance their profiles, our system is engineered to detect and eliminate such discrepancies. It assesses the authenticity of each candidate, ensuring the information provided is truthful and verifiable—not just polished by generative tools.
Before a profile ever reaches a recruiter’s dashboard, our AI conducts a multi-layered verification process. It starts by evaluating the candidate’s digital identity, much like a government would during a background check. Then, it performs four to five rounds of screening—virtually and telephonically—each designed to filter out inconsistencies and validate credibility.
This rigorous process ensures that only genuine, verified candidates are presented to recruiters. As a result, we effectively eliminate the growing risk of AI-generated fraud in the hiring ecosystem, setting a new standard for trust and accountability in recruitment.
Q: What is Erekrut’s success rate in converting job applications into actual hires, and how do you measure this effectiveness?
A: With our platform, we consistently achieve a conversion rate of nearly 90%. The remaining 10% typically results from delayed outreach to candidates—often beyond the crucial 24 to 48-hour window.
Here’s what we’ve observed: when recruiters engage candidates within one to two days, the hiring process moves swiftly and successfully. However, in cases where outreach occurs after 72 hours or up to a week, the chances of conversion drop significantly. I’ve advised many of our clients on this—timeliness is critical. When they act promptly, the results speak for themselves.
To date, our active clients have maintained an impressive 90% hiring success rate, across roles ranging from blue-collar positions to white-collar and CXO-level mandates. That’s the scale and versatility of what we deliver—and it’s exactly what sets us apart in today’s competitive hiring landscape.
Q: What new innovations or features is Erekrut currently developing to enhance and differentiate its existing recruitment solutions?
A: To offer a glimpse into what lies ahead, we’re significantly expanding our technological capabilities. We’re integrating more advanced LLM models, implementing blockchain frameworks, and—most importantly—introducing AI assistants tailored for job seekers.
Traditionally, executive assistants or personal secretaries are privileges reserved for business leaders—CXOs, VPs, and senior managers. We’re changing that paradigm. Our AI assistant will serve millions of job seekers, not only by supporting their job search but also by enhancing their day-to-day productivity and workplace efficiency.
This innovation isn’t just about finding the next opportunity—it’s about empowering individuals throughout their professional journey. Our vision is bold: to enable our AI assistant to serve 8 million users daily. That’s the scale of impact we’re building—intelligent, personalized, and transformational support at unprecedented reach.
Q: Where do you envision Erekrut in the next 10 years in terms of growth, geographic expansion, and global market reach?
A: Over the next decade, we aim to surpass every traditional job portal globally. Our vision is to evolve into the world’s leading recruitment engine—serving everyone across the hiring ecosystem, from universities and recruiters to job seekers and employers.
We are building a comprehensive, one-stop platform that seamlessly integrates hiring, skill assessments, campus engagement, and recruitment marketing. No longer will organizations need multiple tools or fragmented systems. We will deliver it all—intelligently and efficiently.
This is more than ambition. It’s our roadmap. And we’re committed to becoming the go-to global destination for everything recruitment.
