We Built PlaceHire Because Campus Hiring Was Broken

Every year, millions of college students compete for jobs on platforms that don't verify who they are, don't measure what they know, and don't care if they get placed. We decided to fix that.

The Student Side

“A student from a tier-2 college in Nagpur spent 6 months applying to 200 jobs on LinkedIn. He had a strong GitHub, an 8.4 CGPA, and real project experience. He got 3 responses. Not because he wasn't good enough — but because no one could verify he was real.”

The Recruiter Side

“An HR manager at a mid-size tech company told us she spends 4 hours every day just filtering out fake profiles, irrelevant applicants, and students who listed skills they don't actually have. 4 hours. Every day.”

The College Side

“A placement officer at an engineering college in Pune was managing 1,200 students across WhatsApp groups, Excel sheets, and endless email threads. He had no idea which students were placed, which were still trying, and which had quietly given up.”

🔐 Trust at the Foundation

Every student on PlaceHire enters through their college. No self-registration. No fake profiles. If your college is on PlaceHire, your identity is verified before you ever apply to a single job.

🤖 AI That Actually Measures Talent

We don't ask students to describe themselves. We look at their GitHub activity, resume quality, certifications, CGPA, and profile completeness — and turn it into a single honest score that recruiters can trust and students can improve.

🏫 Tools That Make TPOs Powerful

We gave placement officers a real command center — not a spreadsheet. They can issue credentials, track every student's placement journey, communicate through encrypted channels, send bulk alerts, and generate reports in one click.

India produces 1.5 million engineering graduates every year. The majority of them study at colleges that never make the headlines, never attract the big recruiters, and never get a fair shot. PlaceHire exists to level that playing field — not by lowering the bar, but by making it possible for any student who has genuinely worked hard to prove it, and for any recruiter to find them.

Verification Over Volume

We would rather have 10,000 verified students than 10,000,000 unverified ones. Quality of trust is more important to us than size of network.

Transparency in Scoring

Students can see exactly why they got their AI Score and exactly what to do to improve it. No black boxes. No mystery algorithms.

Privacy by Design

End-to-end encryption is not a feature we added later. It is how we built the platform from day one. Student data belongs to students.

Equal Access

A student from Nagpur deserves the same shot as a student from IIT Bombay. Our platform does not rank colleges — it ranks individuals based on their actual work.

Honest Technology

AI should help humans make better decisions, not replace human judgment. Our AI Score is a signal, not a verdict. Recruiters still decide. Students still grow.

Built for India

We are not a copy of a Western product. We are built for Indian colleges, Indian recruiters, Indian students, and the unique reality of campus hiring in this country.

Arjun Mehta

Former placement coordinator at VIT Pune. Watched 400 students go through placement season with zero visibility into their chances. Built PlaceHire to give every student a fair shot.

Sneha Rajan

Ex-engineer at Razorpay. Designed the AI scoring engine from scratch. Believes technology should be honest about what it can and cannot measure.

Karthik Iyer

Former campus recruiter at Infosys. Interviewed 2,000+ students over 5 years. Joined PlaceHire to fix the recruiter side of the problem.

Divya Nair

Ex-TPO at NIT Trichy. Has personally onboarded 120+ colleges onto the platform. Knows every pain point a placement officer faces by heart.

Our main office. Product, engineering, and leadership team.

Engineering and data science team.

College partnerships and support team.

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