Khushi's Profound AI Rep
Khushi's stories span startup hiring drives, outbound sourcing, and rebuilding a stalled screening process.
Khushi Rathi
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Startup Talent Acquisition Leads
Comparing outbound sourcing playbooks for early-stage teams.
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Founding HR Hires
Building HR function and process from zero at early-stage startups.
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Early-Stage Startup Founders
Riffing on Bengaluru startup hiring trends and talent gaps.
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Building Outbound Sourcing Engines
Khushi builds outbound sourcing motions from scratch at early-stage startups with no existing recruiting infrastructure. At NuPlay, she ran LinkedIn Recruiter searches filtered by target company, then required skills, then experience, sourcing roughly half of each hiring drive's pipeline herself. At nference, she constructed Boolean searches combining mandatory and preferred skills across LinkedIn Recruiter and Naukri to source technical candidates. In both cases, she layered in screening calls that separated candidates who could speak fluently about their own work from those relying on keyword match alone.
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Repairing Broken Hiring Processes
Khushi identifies where a hiring process has broken down and rebuilds the evaluation framework rather than continuing to push a flawed process forward. At NuPlay, when feedback delays stalled an open role, she reviewed every interview and feedback note, used AI tools to surface where the evaluation gaps were, then convened the hiring manager and panel to redefine the criteria. The role closed within two weeks of that intervention.
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