Career Basket

What Career Basket does

Career Basket is a privately held executive search and staffing firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, with a second entity (Career Bakset LLC) registered in Sharjah, UAE. The firm provides recruitment solutions across Entry Level, Middle Level, and Senior Management positions for employers in a broad set of verticals including IT, Engineering, Infrastructure, Telecom, Banking, FMCG, BPOs, Hospitality, Healthcare, Pharma/Life Sciences, KPO/ITES, Engineering/Manufacturing, FMCG/Retail, and BFSI/Broking/Securities. Its service offering spans Recruitment Services, Permanent Staffing, Executive Search, Bulk/Volume Hiring, and Job Seeker Services (CV submission and interview tips for both freshers and experienced candidates).

The business is delivered through a traditional, non-platform, people-led recruitment model with no proprietary technology stack, no app, and no public API or integrations. Career Basket supports clients with requirement submission, candidate pre-screening, interview arrangement, and a 3-month placement guarantee. The go-to-market is sales-led, with direct employer engagement (via phone, email, and the company website) targeting enterprise clients across India and the UAE; the firm's online marketing presence is anchored on its own website with no additional digital channels disclosed.

Career Basket operates as a professional services firm on a quote-based pricing model with no publicly disclosed fee schedule, and revenue is generated per placement under what appears to be a contingency or retained search structure. The company is privately held with no parent organization, no subsidiaries, no institutional funding, and no disclosed management team beyond point-of-contact emails (employer, candidate, and UAE HR inboxes). Awards, certifications, partnerships, patents, M&A, and regulatory actions are all unreported in the source data, indicating a small, founder-led operating profile.

Name

Career Basket

Legal name

Career Basket

Website

https://careerbasket.co.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Career Basket is a privately held executive search and staffing firm founded in 2015 in Mumbai, India, with operations in the UAE, providing recruitment, permanent staffing, executive search, and bulk hiring services across entry, middle, and senior management levels for multiple industries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Executive Search and Staffing Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Executive Search Services (561312), Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro industry

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Workforce Strategy & Strategic Workforce Planning

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/HR Consulting & Advisory (HR Strategy, Org Design, Change)

SECONDARYEDALABAB

Career Services & Career Readiness

Education/Student Services & Campus Operations/Academic Advising, Career Services & Student Success

Keywords

• Executive search services
• Permanent staffing solutions
• Volume recruitment hiring
• Talent placement firm
• Recruitment consulting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Mumbai

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Recruitment and Staffing Services: Career Basket operates as an executive search firm providing staffing services to employers. They charge for recruitment and staffing services, likely on a contingency or retained search basis for permanent placements and executive search engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Career Basket is a privately held executive search and staffing firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, with an additional presence in Sharjah, UAE. It provides recruitment and placement services across Entry Level, Middle Level, and Senior Management positions for employers in IT, Engineering, Infrastructure, Telecom, Banking, FMCG, BPO, Hospitality, and Healthcare industries, offering permanent staffing, executive search, bulk/volume hiring, and complementary job seeker support such as CV submission and interview preparation guidance.

Product overview

Career Basket is an executive search and recruitment firm based in Mumbai since 2015, offering a portfolio of staffing services including Recruitment Services, Permanent Staffing, Executive Search, and Bulk Hiring/Volume Hiring. The company provides personalized staffing solutions for employers across Entry Level, Middle Level, and Senior Management positions. For job seekers, the firm offers CV submission services and interview preparation guidance. All services are delivered through a traditional non-technology-enabled recruitment model with a 3-month guarantee on placements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Recruitment Services Core recruitment solutions providing staffing services across Entry Level, Middle Level, and Senior Management positions; the firm's recruiters identify relevant applicants from saturated application pools and arrange client interviews for employers across multiple industries.
• Permanent Staffing Permanent staffing service that acquires, deploys, and retains workforce with sufficient quantity and quality, fulfilling organizational workforce gaps at short notice with quality and quantity guarantees.
• Executive Search Executive search and headhunting service specializing in senior personnel recruitment, maintaining high confidentiality and professionalism with comprehensive sourcing strategies to fulfill senior-level client demands.
• Bulk Hiring / Volume Hiring Volume hiring service that maintains quality standards alongside quantity, explicitly recognizing that applicant quality is most significant in bulk recruitment processes.
• Job Seeker Services Services for job seekers including CV submission, interview tips, and career opportunity matching across all industry verticals for both fresher and experienced candidates.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3-month guarantee on all placements ensures quality and reduces risk for employers

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• ManpowerGroup: Global staffing giant with significant India presence, offering permanent placement and RPO services. Overlaps with Career Basket's recruitment, permanent staffing, and bulk hiring offerings across multiple sectors.
• Randstad: Global HR services leader with deep Indian operations through Randstad India. Competes with Career Basket across permanent staffing, executive search, and volume hiring in IT, BFSI, and manufacturing.
• Adecco Group: Global staffing and workforce solutions leader operating across permanent placement, temporary staffing, and executive search. Broad incumbent that competes with Career Basket in volume hiring and mid-level recruitment across the same verticals.

Emerging players

• Xpheno: Indian specialist staffing firm focused on IT and technology talent acquisition. Direct overlap with Career Basket's IT vertical and comparable scale, serving enterprise and GCC clients.
• PeopleStrong: India-based HR technology and staffing platform combining SaaS HCM with recruitment services. Adjacent competitor that combines technology-enabled hiring with staffing — the model Career Basket lacks.

Direct peers

• Michael Page: Specialist recruitment firm focused on mid-to-senior management permanent placement globally. Direct competitor in the executive search and senior management recruitment line that Career Basket markets.
• TeamLease Services: Largest publicly listed Indian staffing and workforce solutions firm. Directly comparable as an India-anchored staffing company serving multi-sector enterprise clients with permanent and volume hiring — the same model Career Basket operates at smaller scale.
• ABC Consultants: Indian executive search firm specializing in senior and middle management hiring across industries. Direct competitor in the executive search product line Career Basket offers, with similar mid-market positioning.
• Quess Corp: Indian integrated business services and staffing platform covering IT, BPO, healthcare, and BFSI hiring. Comparable to Career Basket across vertical coverage and service breadth, though at substantially larger scale.
• Hays: Global specialist recruitment firm covering IT, engineering, BFSI, and healthcare — a near-exact vertical overlap with Career Basket's listed coverage. Comparable in mid-market senior hiring focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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