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Every mandate is a story about the person who wasn't looking.

Search work is confidential by nature — we rarely get to publish the offer letter or the org chart. What we can share is how each mandate actually ran: the brief, the shortlist, the trade-offs, and why one candidate won the room over the others. Five recent searches, across healthtech, agritech, real estate, automotive-tech and enterprise IT.

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3-candidate shortlist

Hiring a VP of Sales for an Early-Stage HealthTech Startup

A cancer-diagnostics startup, just past a $2M raise, needed a VP of Sales who could give investors confidence the company could scale. Closed in a month, within budget.

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SDA
Vacant 6 months → closed in 15 days

Hiring a Snowflake Data Architect for a US-Based IT Services Firm

A Fortune-500-serving IT services firm had a Snowflake Data Architect seat open for half a year. Zifcare closed it in 15 days with a candidate the client didn't expect to pick.

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HAS
Closed on the first shortlist

Strategic Hiring of a Head of Agricultural Sciences for an Agritech Startup in Rajasthan

A very thin national talent pool, a non-metro location, and a tight budget — Zifcare mapped the sector and closed the startup's first Director-level scientist with just two candidates.

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IA
3 rounds, 3 candidates, 1 month

Hiring an Investment Analyst for a Leading Real Estate Investment Firm

A CRE investment firm with $100M+ raised via FDI needed an analyst fast, to support a newly-hired Head of Investments. A three-round process settled it in a month.

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VPE
All 5 shortlisted candidates interviewed

Hiring a VP of Engineering for a Pre-Series A Used Vehicle Marketplace

Investors wouldn't fund the round without a senior engineering leader in place. Zifcare closed a VP of Engineering at INR 65 LPA + ESOPs — and helped close the Series A that followed.

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