Khushi's Profound AI Rep
Khushi's view on screening depth shows how she reads real experience versus rehearsed answers.
Khushi Rathi
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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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Khushi Rathi
About Me
Khushi Rathi is a Talent Acquisition professional who has spent the past three years building recruiting functions from the ground up at early-stage startups.
She is currently Founding HR at NuPlay AI, where she owns full-cycle recruitment across engineering, product, and business roles, running multiple hiring drives at once without relying on agencies.
At NuPlay, she scaled the organisation from 17 to 120+ employees, closing 65 to 70 hires with roughly 40 of those sourced directly by her.
At nference, she managed end-to-end recruitment for technology roles across an 11-member team, handling 5 to 6 open positions at once through structured Boolean sourcing on LinkedIn Recruiter and Naukri.
Khushi Rathi
If a candidate can talk about their work without pausing to think, they actually did it.”
Khushi Rathi
On screening for depth