They work for the company. We work for you.
You don't apply and wait. We go out and find the room — including where nothing is advertised.
Applying stopped working. The numbers say so.
This is not our opinion. It is what changed in the market between 2023 and now.
Sources: LinkedIn hiring data as reported by Fortune and HR Executive, 2026. Figures describe the US market, where this shift is best measured; Indian senior hiring shows the same direction of travel but is less well documented. We will publish our own Indian numbers — see the CXO Movement Index.
One queue. Or nine open doors.
The advertised role
Everyone can see it. You join the queue and hope the pile gets read.
The one nobody posted
We find companies with a problem you've already solved, then ring them and ask.
Six practices. Seventeen steps.
Each practice has a name, a duration, a named owner and a document you receive at the end of it.
Career analysis
An honest written audit. We name what's strong as well as what's weak.
Positioning
CV and LinkedIn rebuilt. Every claim traced to a document you confirmed.
Research & intelligence
Both tracks built: advertised roles, and companies with a problem you solve.
Access, interview & offer
A person calls. Meetings arranged, interviews prepared, offers compared.
We will not send 863 applications.
A US firm in this category publishes that number as a selling point — their average applications submitted before a client gets an offer.
The volume model
- 50–100 applications a week, submitted for you
- Your name attached to roles you'd never take
- A report that counts submissions, not conversations
Every negative review in this category, at every vendor, describes the same failure: high volume, no relevance.
What we do instead
- 10–20 companies a month, each one researched first
- A named human contacted, with a reason they'd care
- A report that names who we spoke to and what they said
At your level, one well-judged conversation beats four hundred applications. That is the entire bet.
Source: The 863-application figure is the Reverse Recruiting Agency's own published average, reported by Fortune, March 2026. We cite it because they published it, not to disparage them.
Pick the one that sounds like you.
Start with the audit.
Your profile measured against what your target role is actually asking for now — and an honest read on which track will produce for you.
Six practices. Seventeen steps. Every one owned by a person.
You should know what happens, in what order, who does it, and how much of your own time it costs.
What this costs you in time.
You see the number before you commit to anything.
We don't publish a price list, and this page explains why — what you are charged for, when you find out the number, and what happens if we decide we cannot help. The four steps themselves are set out separately, so you can read the shape of the work and the cost of it without one obscuring the other.
There is one path, and it has four steps.
Every engagement begins with the Profile Intelligence Audit and goes no further than you choose to take it. Each step ends with a document you keep, and you decide after each one whether there is a next. What those steps are, and what lands in your inbox at each, is set out in one place — this page is only about what they cost and when you find out.
Because a price list would misprice you.
A Head of Operations who mainly needs repositioning and a CXO who needs eleven promoters approached are not the same piece of work. Publishing one number would overcharge the first and undersell the second.
We look before we quote
The audit tells us how much work your search actually needs. Quoting before that would be guessing.
You get the number in writing
Never on a call, never as pressure. A written proposal you can sit with, and a scope you can hold us to.
We say no often
If the audit shows we cannot move your search, we will tell you and there is nothing to pay. See who we turn away.
True before you pay us anything.
Start small, on purpose
The audit is the smallest paid step we offer, and it stands on its own. Some people read it, fix things themselves and never come back. That is a fine outcome.
A human reads it
A reviewer, not a script, reads your record and writes the assessment. Software helps them work faster; it does not decide anything about you.
Confidential
Your documents stay between you and your reviewer. Nothing carrying your name reaches any company until you have read it and approved it.
Nothing invented
Anything we cannot trace to a document you confirmed is marked open, not written as fact. An invented line collapses in the second interview.
What a slow search costs you.
Whatever we end up charging, this is the number it has to beat. Move the slider to your current fixed pay.
Based on fixed pay only. It excludes variable pay, the compounding effect on your next increment, and the option value of a better role. It is arithmetic, not a promise of speed.
Start with the audit.
It is the smallest paid step, it stands on its own, and the fee is agreed with you in writing before it begins.
Four situations where we will tell you not to hire us.
We would rather lose the fee than take money for work that cannot produce.
Four situations, and why we turn them down.
You need a role this month
Senior conversations take weeks to arrange and months to convert. If rent is due in thirty days, a retainer with us is the wrong use of that money. Take the audit, fix the CV yourself, and come back when you have runway.
Your record does not support the level you want
We reposition evidence. We do not manufacture it. If you are a Head aiming at CXO with no P&L and no board exposure, we will say so in the audit and decline the engagement.
You want us to apply everywhere
If what you want is volume — hundreds of applications, any role, fast — there are firms that do that for a tenth of our fee. We are not better than them at it. We simply do not do it.
You cannot give us three hours a month
The positioning session, the approvals and the Friday report need you. Clients who go quiet get worse outcomes, and we would rather not start than take a fee for a search you cannot participate in.
You are early in your career
Below roughly eight years and Head-of-function scope, the economics do not work for you. Naukri's own services and a good resume writer will do more for less.
Why publish this?
Because nobody in this category does. The complaints against every firm we studied come from clients who should have been turned away and were sold to instead.
The application is no longer the way in.
Four measured changes that explain why senior people are now paying someone to represent them.
Three shifts that broke the application.
Applications stopped converting
Online applications produced 66% of interviews in 2026, down from 76% in 2023.
Outreach took over
Recruiter-initiated contact is up 72% since 2023. The market moved to being approached.
Referral beats application
A referred candidate is 35% more likely to convert to an offer than one who applied.
Screening got harsher
Roughly three in four applicants are filtered out before a human reads anything.
The category answered badly
US firms responded with volume — one publishes an average of 863 applications per client before an offer.
The honest conclusion
If outreach and referral are what now work, the answer is more conversations — not more applications. That is the whole design of what we do.
Sources: LinkedIn hiring data reported by Fortune (March 2026) and HR Executive; Reverse Recruiting Agency's own published operating figures via Fortune. Figures are US-measured. Indian senior hiring is directionally similar but poorly documented — which is why we are starting our own index.
The India CXO Movement Index.
An annual study of how senior leaders in India actually move: tenure, route in, compensation shift, and what made them leave.
What we would publish, and how.
Who we'd survey
400–600 Indian executives at Head, VP and CXO level across pharma, technology, manufacturing, financial services and consumer.
What we'd measure
Time in role before moving. How the move originated — advert, referral, search firm, direct approach. Compensation change. Stated reason for leaving.
Published openly
Full methodology, sample composition and margin of error. Free to read, no email wall. Cited, not sold.
Anonymised, with numbers and dates.
Our clients are executives running quiet searches. Almost none can be named — so we publish the shape of the work instead.
Pitched at Head level with eleven years of scale behind him. The record supported VP; the document did not. Repositioned around a ₹300Cr P&L and an eleven-site consolidation, then approached four companies with announced network expansions and no named operations lead.
A CEO whose CV read like a plant manager's. Repositioned around two USFDA inspections with no observations and a LATAM channel now carrying 18% of revenue. Track B built entirely from capacity announcements and leadership exits in public filings.
How we will contact you. And what we will never ask for.
Job fraud in India overwhelmingly begins with someone asking a candidate for money. You should be suspicious of us. Here is how to check.
We will never
- Ask you to pay a "registration", "processing" or "security" deposit
- Ask for payment to a personal UPI ID, wallet or bank account
- Ask for your email, Naukri or LinkedIn password
- Promise you a specific job, at a specific company, for a fee
- Send your profile to any company before you have approved it
We always
- Invoice from the registered company, with GSTIN shown
- Take payment only through a named payment gateway, never in cash
- Contact you only from an @hireiq.pro or @talproindia.com email address
- Name the person handling your case, with a way to reach them
- Delete your documents within 30 days of a written request
Read this before you pay us.
The limits of what a firm in this position can honestly offer. We would rather lose the engagement than misstate them.
Four things we will never do.
No job guarantee
We control the research, the outreach and the record of it. We do not control a hiring decision, and no honest firm claims otherwise.
No invented achievements
If it is not in your record and you cannot defend it in a second interview, it does not go in your CV.
No fabricated proof
No testimonials we cannot evidence, no client logos we have no right to, no outcome counters without a stated denominator.
No "hidden job market" mysticism
Track B is public information read carefully and followed up by phone. There is no secret list. Anyone claiming one is selling you something.
No employer relationships we don't have
We are paid by you, not by companies. That means we have no mandate to fill and no incentive to push you at the wrong role — and also no inside track we haven't earned on your behalf.
No volume disguised as effort
We will not report application counts as if they were progress.
Introduce someone. Earn when they sign.
For recruiters, coaches and consultants with senior contacts.
Four kinds of partner.
Executive search firms
You meet strong leaders who are wrong for the mandate in front of you. Send them here rather than lose the relationship — and keep the credit.
Outplacement providers
Where your programme ends at coaching, ours continues into actual representation. Refer, or white-label the search itself.
HR consulting firms
Restructuring a client? The leaders leaving need somewhere real to go. That is a conversation you can have without a conflict.
Career coaches & advisors
Take assigned review work at an agreed rate, or introduce clients who need more than coaching. You see only your own assignments.
Nine roles. One named person accountable for your search.
You are not buying software. You are buying the judgement of people who have spent years on the other side of this market.
The machine reads. A person decides.
We are honest about this everywhere on the site, in the same words.
Who does what.
Start with the audit.
One of these people reads your record and writes back within one working day.
Leaders who are represented, not just listed.
Every candidate you see from us has had their record checked line by line against source documents, by a person, before it reached you.
The candidate paid to be prepared properly.
That changes what arrives on your desk.
Every claim traced
Nothing in the profile that the candidate could not defend in a second interview. We write only from documents they confirmed.
Leadership only
Director, Head of function, VP and CXO across India. We do not send you volume.
Genuinely interested
They are paying us to run a considered search. Nobody in our pipeline is applying to four hundred roles at once.
Context, not a CV
Why this person, for this role, at your company — written by the person who has been running their search.
No fee to you
The candidate engages us. We are not a search firm and we do not invoice you for a placement.
Where our loyalty sits
Stated plainly: we work for the candidate. That is why the profile is honest about gaps as well as strengths.
Three steps.
Tell us what you are hiring
The role, the scope, the reporting line and what would make someone genuinely right for it. A conversation, not a form.
We check who we are representing
If someone in our care fits, their case lead writes you the context — what they have done, what they have not, and why this role.
You talk to them directly
We arrange it and then get out of the way. No gatekeeping, no fee attached to the outcome.
Hiring a leader this quarter?
Tell us the role. If nobody in our care fits, we will say so rather than send you someone who doesn’t.
Fifteen years working for employers. This is the same craft, pointed the other way.
HireIQ Pro is part of Talpro India, a contract staffing firm in Bengaluru. We have spent fifteen years being paid by companies to find people. We know exactly how that process treats the candidate.
Why Bhaskar started this.
Fifteen years running compliance-first contract staffing, most of it placing senior people into GCCs and Indian enterprises. In all that time the candidate has never had anyone whose only job was their outcome — the recruiter is paid by the company, and behaves accordingly. HireIQ exists to put someone on the other side of that table.
The short version.
Four things we will not trade away.
Precision over volume
Ten companies researched properly beats four hundred applications fired into the dark. Volume is the easiest thing to sell and the least useful thing to buy.
Privacy is a feature, not a policy page
At this level a leak costs someone their current job. Confidentiality is designed into how we work, not bolted on as a promise.
Human judgement, machine speed
Software reads faster and searches wider than any of us. It does not know whether a company is worth your name. A person decides that.
Say the hard thing early
If your record does not support the level you want, or we are the wrong help, you should hear it in the audit — not before you commit to anything larger.
Your career documents are the most sensitive thing you will send us.
Here is how they are handled. Where we have not yet done something, we say so rather than implying we have.
How your documents are held.
Encryption
TLS on every connection to this site and to your case records. Documents encrypted at rest on the storage volume.
Privacy by design
We collect the documents needed to do the work and nothing else. No tracking pixels that follow you off this site.
Infrastructure
Hosted on Indian infrastructure. Your documents and case records do not leave the country.
Access control
Your case lead and the specialists assigned to your search. Nobody else in the firm can open your file.
Retention and deletion
Your documents are deleted within thirty days of a written request, and we confirm when it is done. Write to grievance@talproindia.com.
Responsible disclosure
Found a flaw? Write to legal@talproindia.com. We will acknowledge within two working days and will not pursue anyone reporting in good faith.
Four steps. Each one ends with something you keep.
Most career help starts with an opinion. This starts with a measurement — your profile read against what your target role is actually asking for right now. You decide after each step whether there is a next one.
Fees are quoted to you in writing before any step begins — how fees work. Nothing is charged automatically and nothing renews on its own.
What each step is, and what lands in your inbox.
You can stop after any step. Nothing later is assumed, and nothing earlier is wasted — each step is the input to the next.
Profile Intelligence Audit
We take your LinkedIn profile and benchmark it against what matched, currently-advertised roles at your level are actually asking for. Not a template score — a comparison against live market expectations for the job you want next.
You receive: a written report naming the evidence gaps in your profile, the market risks in your positioning, and the specific proof worth going and finding.
One-to-one meeting, and the workbook that comes out of it
Forty-five minutes with the person who would run your search. Before it, we build a private meeting pack from your CV and LinkedIn. After it, we reconcile what you told us against what your documents actually evidence.
You receive: a Smart Excel Workbook — the structured record of your career, the claims we can already evidence, and the ones still open. It is the working file everything after this is built from.
Evidence closure and CV upgrade
We take your resume, your LinkedIn, the audit, the meeting record and your completed workbook, and close the gaps — reconciling what you have told us against controlled public-source verification.
You receive: a Closure Report, an ATS-safe Master CV, and a CareerOS 360 Roadmap. This is the step where a rewritten copy of your CV first reaches you.
HireIQ — we go out and represent you
An annual engagement. Your CareerOS 360 is built and maintained, and a named human team approaches companies on your behalf — including the ones with a problem you have solved before, where nothing is advertised.
You receive: the full method — six practices, seventeen steps — and a written report every week naming who was contacted and what came back. See the method.
Four things, in this order. No surprises in the middle.
Step 1 is bought directly on this site — there is no enquiry to send and no quote to wait for. You see the price, you pay, you fill in one form. Steps 2, 3 and 4 are scoped and quoted to you in writing first, and nothing is charged until you have agreed it.
You choose the depth of audit you want
Three audits, each with its price and its full contents set out line by line before you pay. See the three and what is in each.
You pay for it there and then
Card, UPI or netbanking through Razorpay. The amount is fixed by us on our own server and cannot be altered — not by us afterwards, and not by anyone who intercepts the link. We never see your card or bank details, and we never ask for a personal account.
You fill in one short form on this site
Your details and your CV, so your reviewer has what they need. It is the only questionnaire in the process, and it takes about three minutes.
A person reads your record and writes the report
One working day from the moment your form is in — not from payment. The report is yours to keep and act on alone, whether or not you ever come back.
We will never ask you to pay a personal UPI ID, wallet or bank account. If anyone does, it is not us — see the security and scam advisory.
What a benchmark actually means.
Everyone will tell you your CV needs work. Very few will tell you what the market is currently asking for in the role you want, and where your record falls short of it.
Read against the role, not against a rulebook
We match your target level and function to current market expectations, then read your profile against them. The output names three things: what you can already evidence, what the market expects that you have not evidenced, and what is worth going to find.
What this is not.
Not a job guarantee
No step here promises you a job, an interview or a callback. We are a partner service helping you run a better search. Read what we don’t promise.
Not invented achievements
Nothing goes into your Master CV that you have not confirmed and that we cannot trace to a source. If the evidence is not there, we say so in the report instead of writing around it.
Not an automatic ladder
Step 1 does not commit you to Step 2. After the audit we tell you honestly whether the next step is worth your money — including when the answer is no.
Two ways in.
Directly with us
Tell us the role you hold and the one you want next. We reply within one working day with the scope and the fee for Step 1, in writing. You pay only once you have agreed it.
Through our Fiverr listing
If you would rather buy through a marketplace with its own escrow and dispute process — particularly if you are outside India — the Profile Intelligence Audit is listed there under Talpro India Private Limited.
Payments made directly to us are processed by Razorpay. We will never ask you to pay a personal UPI ID, wallet or bank account — see the security & scam advisory.
Start with the measurement.
Send us the role you hold and the one you want next. You get the scope and the fee in writing before anything begins.
Three packages. Pick your depth.
A written CV read, a one-to-one conversation on Google Meet, or your whole record rebuilt for the role you want. Every package is read by a person, every claim is traced to proof, and every one ends with written work you keep.
Fixed prices, shown below before 18% GST. One-time payment, nothing renews. Not a job offer or placement.
How deep should we go?
Package 1 is a written CV read. Packages 2 and 3 add a one-to-one Google Meet. Prices are shown before GST; the total with 18% GST is shown under each price and again before you pay.
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What is in each one, and what is not.
The same questions asked of all three, so you can see exactly what you are and are not buying. Nothing here is upsold to you later — what the table says is what arrives.
Every tier is read by a person. Software helps them read faster and search wider; every judgement about your career is made by a human being.
Written work, and nothing you have to chase.
Your files are sent to the email you pay with, on the timeline shown for your package. You do not get a login, a dashboard, or a subscription. You get the thing you paid for and you keep it.
Written in sentences, not scores alone
A number on its own tells you nothing you can act on. Every finding says what we saw in your record, why it costs you at your level, and what would fix it. Where we give a score, the reasoning sits next to it.
Specific to your record
It quotes your own lines back to you. If a claim in your CV has nothing behind it, the report names that claim rather than telling you in general terms to add more evidence.
Yours to act on alone
Some people read the report, fix what it names themselves, and never come back. That is a good outcome and the report is written for it. There is no part of it that only works if you buy something else.
Revisions, stated up front
Packages 1 and 2 include one clarification of the report. The Complete Leadership Package includes one revision round on the CV, report and roadmap, and further rounds can be added at checkout.
What this is not.
Stated here rather than discovered afterwards.
Not a job offer or placement
Buying a package is not part of any hiring process. We do not submit you to employers, and booking does not mean a role exists. Only the Complete Leadership Package includes a rewritten CV.
Not a job guarantee
No step here promises you a job, an interview or a callback. We are a partner service helping you run a better search. Read what we don't promise.
Not invented achievements
Anything we cannot trace to a document you confirmed is marked open, not written as fact. An invented line collapses in the second interview.
Answered here, so you do not have to ask.
How long does it actually take?
Package 1: one working day from the moment your CV is in — not from payment. Packages 2 and 3: a Google Meet slot within three working days; notes follow within two working days of the call, and the full Complete Leadership Package within seven.
Who reads it?
A reviewer with recruitment and leadership-hiring experience. Not a script, and not an automated score. The same person writes the report.
Is my CV kept confidential?
Your documents stay between you and your reviewer. Nothing carrying your name reaches any company at this stage — an audit involves no outreach at all. See how we handle your data.
Do I need a LinkedIn profile?
For the CV Signal Snapshot, no — it is a CV-only read. Packages 2 and 3 read your LinkedIn as well. A LinkedIn rewrite is available as an add-on to the Complete Leadership Package.
Which one if I have a specific job in mind?
The Complete Leadership Package. It is the only one that benchmarks you against a job description you send us — and it rebuilds your CV for that role.
Can I upgrade afterwards?
Yes. Buy the smaller one, and if you want the deeper read later, tell us your reference and we invoice the difference rather than the full price again.
Is this a subscription?
No. It is a one-time payment for the audit named on your receipt. Nothing renews, nothing is stored to be charged later, and there is no account to cancel.
How do I pay, and is it safe?
By card, UPI or netbanking through Razorpay. Prices are shown before 18% GST, which is added at checkout and shown separately. We never see or store your card or bank details. Payment goes to Talpro India Private Limited — never to a personal account. Read the scam advisory.
I am outside India. Can I still buy?
Yes. Prices are shown in rupees and Razorpay handles the conversion at checkout. The audit itself is the same wherever you are, though the market benchmark is strongest for roles hiring into India.
Can I get a refund?
Payments are non-refundable once confirmed, and each package is valid for 15 days. You get a full refund if you were charged twice or in error, if we do not deliver, or if we decline your case. Read the policy.
Still deciding?
The smallest audit stands on its own. What it tells you is usually enough to know whether the deeper reads are worth it.
Three things, then the work starts.
You fill in one form
Your role, your target, your LinkedIn and your CV. It takes a few minutes and it is the only questionnaire in the process.
A person reads your record
Not a script. Software helps them read faster and search wider; every judgement about your career is made by a human being.
Your files arrive on time
Package 1 in one working day; Packages 2 and 3 after your Google Meet call. Written, yours to keep, and useful whether or not you ever come back to us.
Not sure which one?
Start with the smallest. It stands on its own, and what you learn from it tells you whether the deeper reads are worth it.
Your agreed engagement.
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It was fixed when we sent you this link and cannot be altered — not by us after the fact, and not by anyone who intercepts the link.
We never ask for a personal account
Payment goes to Talpro India Private Limited through Razorpay. If anyone asks you to pay a personal UPI ID, wallet or bank account, it is not us. See the scam advisory.
Nothing recurring
This is a one-time payment for the step named above. No subscription starts and nothing renews on its own.
By paying you accept our terms of engagement. See the privacy policy for how your documents are handled, and the refunds & cancellation policy for what happens if you change your mind.
One form, and we begin.
Tell us where you are now and where you want to be next. This is everything we need to start your Profile Intelligence Audit — nothing else is required from you until we write back.
Your details
Fields marked * are required. It takes about three minutes, and it is the only questionnaire in the process.
We have everything we need.
Your reference is . A person starts on your record now, and your written report reaches you within one working day. If anything is missing we will write to you rather than guess.
One working day.
We read your record
A person reads what you send and benchmarks it against what your target role is currently asking for. No template, no score you cannot check.
You get the written audit
Evidence gaps, market risks, and the specific proof worth going to find. Yours to keep and act on alone, whether or not you go further.
Then you decide
If the audit says we can help, we talk about Step 2. If it says we cannot, we tell you that instead. See what we don’t promise.
Terms of engagement.
Written to be read, not to be survived. If anything here is unclear, write to us before you pay — we would rather explain it than argue about it later.
The four things that matter most.
You are buying a deliverable
Each step is a defined piece of work that ends with a written document you keep. You are not buying software, a licence or access to a platform.
One-time payment
Every step is paid once. There is no subscription, no recurring charge, no trial that converts, and no stored mandate. Nothing renews on its own.
No outcome is guaranteed
We do not guarantee a job, an interview, a shortlisting or a salary. We are a partner service assisting your search. Anyone who guarantees you an outcome is selling you something else.
In full.
1. What we agree to do
We perform the specific step you have paid for, as described on this site and confirmed to you in writing. For the Profile Intelligence Audit that is a written report benchmarking your profile against matched, currently-advertised roles at your level. For later steps it is the scope set out in your engagement letter. We do not add work you have not agreed to, and we do not charge for work you have not agreed to.
2. Fees, taxes and how you pay
Fees for entry steps are shown at the point of purchase. Fees for representation and other engagements are quoted to you individually in writing before any work starts. All fees are in Indian Rupees and exclusive of GST unless stated; GST is applied at the rate in force. Payment is processed by Razorpay. We never see or store your card, UPI or bank details. Payment is made to Talpro India Private Limited — never to an individual’s personal account.
3. No subscription and no automatic renewal
We do not operate subscription plans, monthly billing, free trials, credits or token packs. Each engagement step is bought once. We do not store a payment mandate and cannot charge you again without you making a fresh payment.
4. Delivery
The CV Signal Snapshot is delivered by email within one working day of receiving your CV. For the Career Conversation and the Complete Leadership Package we offer a Google Meet slot within three working days; notes follow within two working days of the call and the full Complete Leadership Package within seven. Each package is valid for 15 days from payment. Where a step depends on a meeting, delivery follows the meeting. If we are going to miss a stated delivery window, we tell you before it passes rather than after.
5. Revisions
The CV Signal Snapshot and the Career Conversation include one clarification; the Complete Leadership Package includes one revision round, and further rounds can be bought as an add-on. Revisions are raised within fourteen days of delivery. A revision is not a rewrite to a different brief.
6. What you are responsible for
The work rests on what you tell us. You confirm that the information, documents and history you provide are true and yours to share, and that sharing them does not breach an obligation you owe someone else. We will not write a claim about your career that you have not evidenced, and we will not invent achievements, titles, dates or numbers. If we find that material information was misrepresented, we may end the engagement.
7. Confidentiality
We treat your documents and your search as confidential. Your name is released to a company only when you have told us to release it. Where you have asked for a confidential or stealth search, we approach companies without identifying you until you say otherwise, and we honour a company blacklist you give us.
8. Ownership of what we produce
The documents we deliver — your report, workbook, Master CV, evidence pack and roadmap — are yours. You may use them however you wish. Our own templates, methods and internal research remain ours. You may not resell or redistribute our work as a service to others.
9. What we will not do
We will not guarantee an outcome. We will not fabricate evidence. We will not contact your current employer. We will not ask you for money outside this site or an invoice from Talpro India Private Limited. We will not take a placement fee from a hiring company for a candidate we represent, because it would put us on both sides.
10. Ending the engagement
You may stop after any step; nothing later is assumed. For a longer engagement, notice and any refund of unstarted steps are set out in your engagement letter. We may end an engagement where the brief is outside what we can honestly serve, where information was misrepresented, or where conduct towards our team is abusive — and we will refund work not yet started.
11. Liability
We are responsible for performing the agreed work with reasonable care and skill. We are not liable for hiring decisions made by third parties, for outcomes of applications or interviews, or for indirect or consequential loss. Our total liability for any claim arising out of an engagement is limited to the fees you paid us for that engagement. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited under Indian law.
12. Personal data
How we handle your data is set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. Refunds are governed by the Refund & Cancellation Policy.
13. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The version that applies to your engagement is the version published on the day you paid. Material changes are dated at the top of this page.
14. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Bengaluru, Karnataka have exclusive jurisdiction. Before any dispute goes further, please raise it with our Grievance Officer — most things are a misunderstanding that a phone call fixes.
Your career documents are the most sensitive thing you will send us.
This page says what we collect, why, who sees it, and how to make us delete it. It is written under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Four promises, then the detail.
We do not sell your data
Not to recruiters, not to job boards, not to advertisers. There is no advertising tracker and no cross-site tracking on this site.
A person decides, not a machine
Software helps our team read faster and search wider. Every judgement about your career, and every factual claim we write, is made by a person.
Your name is yours to release
We do not give your identity to a company until you tell us to. In a confidential search, that is the whole point.
In full.
1. Who is responsible for your data
Talpro India Private Limited (CIN U74999KA2020PTC135946), registered at B-Block, 4th Floor, 0741/A, 12th Main Road, Manipal County Road, opposite Star Market, AECS Layout, Singasandra, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560068, is the data fiduciary for the personal data described here.
2. What we collect
What you give us: your name, email address, phone number, current and target role, your CV, your LinkedIn profile URL, and any source documents you send to evidence your record. What comes with a payment: a Razorpay payment reference, the email used to pay, and the amount — we do not receive or store your card, UPI or bank account details. What the website records: basic server logs including IP address and browser type, kept for security and troubleshooting.
3. Why we hold it, and on what basis
To perform the work you have asked and paid for; to contact you about that work; to meet our tax, accounting and legal obligations; and to keep the service secure. Where the law requires your consent — for example before we identify you to a company — we ask for it, and you can withdraw it.
4. How software is used on your documents
We use software to read, search and organise faster — for example to find relevant advertised roles or to structure a long CV. Where a document is processed by a third-party service to do that, it is under a written data-processing agreement and is not used to train anyone’s public models. No hiring judgement, benchmark or claim about you is produced without a person reviewing and taking responsibility for it.
5. Who else sees it
Our own case team, limited to the people assigned to your file. Razorpay, for taking payment. Our email delivery provider, to send you your documents. Companies we approach on your behalf — and only what you have agreed we may send them, only once you have released your name. Government authorities, where we are legally required. Nobody else. We do not share your data with recruitment agencies, job boards or data brokers.
6. Where it is held
On Indian infrastructure. Where a processor operates outside India, transfer is covered by contractual protections and is limited to what that processor needs to perform its function.
7. How long we keep it
For as long as needed to do the work and to meet legal and tax record-keeping obligations. You can ask us to delete your documents and case record at any time; we complete deletion within thirty days of a written request and confirm when it is done. Records we are legally obliged to retain — invoices, for example — are kept for the statutory period and nothing more.
8. Your rights
Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 you may ask us for a summary of the personal data we hold about you and how it is processed; ask us to correct or complete inaccurate data; ask us to erase it; withdraw a consent you gave; and nominate someone to exercise these rights if you cannot. Write to grievance@talproindia.com. We respond within thirty days.
9. Cookies
This site uses only what is needed to make it work. It sets no advertising cookies and follows you nowhere. See the Cookie Policy.
10. Security
Encryption in transit, encryption of documents at rest, access limited to your assigned case team, and Indian hosting. What we hold, and what we have not yet done, is set out plainly on the security page.
11. Children
This service is for working professionals at senior level. It is not directed at anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
12. Changes
Material changes to this policy are dated at the top of this page. Where a change materially affects how we handle data you have already given us, we tell you by email.
Refunds and cancellation.
Please read this before you pay. Payments are non-refundable once confirmed and every package is valid for 15 days — and there are cases where we always refund in full.
Payments are non-refundable once confirmed.
Work starts from the moment you pay — a reviewer is assigned and time is reserved for you — so we do not refund a change of mind or a package that goes unused. The cases below where we always refund are never taken away.
Nothing renews
Every step is a one-time payment. We hold no mandate and cannot charge you again. There is nothing to cancel and no plan to end.
Valid for 15 days
Send your documents and book any included call within 15 days of payment. After that an unused package lapses and is not refundable. One call reschedule is free with 24 hours’ notice.
Always refunded in full
A duplicate or mistaken charge, a package we fail to deliver, or a case we decline. Failed-but-debited payments are reversed automatically by Razorpay and your bank.
Every case, named.
You change your mind, or do not use the package
Not refundable. Payments are non-refundable once confirmed, and a package not used within 15 days of payment lapses. If we need to move your call, we extend the 15 days to match.
You were charged twice, or charged in error
Refunded in full. Tell us within seven days of the charge and we will not ask you to justify it.
You paid but received nothing
If the delivery window passes and no document has reached you, and we cannot put it right promptly, you get a full refund.
The report was delivered and you disagree with it
This is not a refund case, but it is a case we take seriously. Raise it within fourteen days and we will use your included revision to correct anything factually wrong. If we got a fact wrong, we fix it and say so.
A longer engagement, part-completed
Representation and multi-step engagements are governed by the cancellation terms in your written engagement letter. As a floor: steps not yet started are refunded, and steps already delivered are not.
We end the engagement
If we decide we cannot honestly serve your brief, or we should have turned you away and did not, we refund everything not yet delivered. We would rather return a fee than keep money for work that cannot produce.
One email, four things in it.
This site does not follow you around the internet.
No advertising cookies. No cross-site tracking. No pixel that reports back to a social network. Here is the short list of what is actually set, and why.
Only what the page needs to work.
Essential
Small values that remember your place while you move between pages and keep a form from losing what you typed. They expire when you close the browser or shortly after.
Payment
On the payment page, Razorpay sets its own cookies to run the checkout securely and prevent fraud. These are governed by Razorpay’s own policy and are only present when you are paying.
Not set
No advertising or retargeting cookies. No third-party social pixels. No profile of you is built or sold for marketing.
We hire rarely, and we hire people who can carry a candidate’s search on their own.
There is no volume desk here and no dialling target. Each case lead carries a small number of senior searches and is answerable for every claim that goes out under their name. That is a hard job, and it is why the team is small.
Reading carefully, writing honestly, and telling people things they would rather not hear.
You write for a living
Almost everything we deliver is written — an audit, a closure report, a weekly account of who was approached and what they said. If you cannot write plainly, you cannot do this job, whatever else you are good at.
You verify before you claim
Nothing goes into a candidate’s record without a source document behind it. The discipline of refusing to write an unevidenced line is most of the craft.
You say no
We turn away work we cannot honestly serve. That means telling a paying person that we are the wrong firm for them. If that conversation frightens you, this is the wrong place.
What we are not.
So that nobody applies on a misunderstanding.
We are not a product company
Software helps our team read faster and search wider. It does not make the judgements, and we do not sell it. If you want to build a platform, you will be bored here.
We are not a recruitment agency desk
We are paid by the candidate, not by the hiring company. There is no placement fee, no commission on a company’s budget, and no incentive to push someone into a role that does not fit.
We are small, and openings are irregular
We do not keep a permanent list of vacancies open to collect applications. When a seat exists, it is filled by someone who wrote to us and was remembered. Writing to us when nothing is posted is the normal route in, not a nuisance.