Recruitment · RPO · Lead generation
Stop sifting resumes. Start hiring with bulls-eye precision.
vFactor Solutions is an independent recruitment outsourcing and lead-generation practice, built on three decades of sourcing engineering, technology and business talent across India and the US.
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What we do
Two levers. Real movement.
vFactor closes the gaps left by conventional recruitment outsourcing — validated data, direct accountability, and a single point of contact who owns the outcome.
Recruitment — freshers to leadership
End-to-end sourcing across India for clients in IT, manufacturing, telecom, engineering and logistics, from volume fresher intakes to confidential leadership searches.
Lead generation
Targeted, validated prospect lists built around your existing customer base — or any data set your sales team needs to grow, assembled and verified to your specification.
Recruiter training
Practical training for in-house talent teams — sourcing technique, screening depth, candidate engagement and closing — so your recruiters stop shipping unvetted profiles.
EdTech and campus operations
Six years running enrollment operations, student and college counselling, career guidance seminars and lateral hiring for tech talent — available as an outsourced function.
How we work
Five stages. One person accountable.
Every engagement runs the same way, so you always know what stage you're at and what lands next.
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01
Intake
A working session on the role: the actual problem the hire solves, the success profile, the compensation band, and the constraints nobody writes into the JD.
You get: a written role brief -
02
Sourcing
Direct search across our network, referrals and databases — including passive candidates who are not applying to postings.
You get: a live pipeline view -
03
Validation
Every profile is spoken to, screened against the success profile, and checked on notice period, compensation expectation and genuine interest before it reaches you.
You get: screened profiles only -
04
Shortlist
A ranked shortlist with our reasoning on each candidate, plus interview scheduling and coordination handled on your behalf.
You get: a ranked shortlist -
05
Offer and joining
Offer negotiation, counter-offer management and follow-through until the candidate actually joins — the stage most agencies stop caring about.
You get: joining follow-through
Engagement
Pick the model that fits the hire.
Three ways to work together. No lock-in on the first engagement, and no charge until the work does what it promised.
Contingency
Pay on joining
For individual open roles where you want reach without commitment. You pay only when a candidate we sourced joins.
- Best for one-off or urgent roles
- Fee as a percentage of annual CTC
- Replacement guarantee period applies
Retained
Dedicated search
For leadership, confidential or hard-to-fill roles that need committed search time rather than opportunistic sourcing.
- Best for leadership and niche skills
- Staged fee across the search
- Market mapping and search report included
RPO
Your recruitment function
For sustained hiring volume. We run sourcing and screening as an extension of your talent team, on a monthly engagement.
- Best for continuous or volume hiring
- Flat monthly engagement fee
- Your ATS, your process, your branding
Not sure which applies? Describe the roles and we will tell you which model costs you least — including when that answer is "hire this one yourself".
Why vFactor
No bloat. No hand-offs. One person owns it.
Validation
Screened before it reaches you
Every candidate and every lead is verified against your brief first, so your team spends interview time on people worth interviewing.
Accountability
One point of contact
The person who takes your brief is the person who runs the search and answers the phone when something slips. Nothing is handed to a junior desk.
Standards
Set by you, not the market
We work to the standard you expect rather than the industry norm — transparent on pipeline, flexible on process, straight about what is not working.
Experience
Three decades of pattern recognition
Thirty-five years across manufacturing, software delivery, staffing and EdTech in Indian and US markets — we have seen how these roles fail before.
Founder
Vijay Purushothaman
Recruitment & HR consulting · Customer success · EdTech operations
35+ years across recruitment and HR consulting, EdTech, software development, manufacturing and operations management, in Indian and international markets.
Background
- First 7 years in manufacturing — TVS Suzuki, BPL Limited, Arvind Mills and Autolec (TVS Group) — across exports, marketing, operations, shipments and logistics, dealer networks and sales campaigns.
- Next 22 years with a global software development and recruitment company spanning the US and India: 6+ years in the US on business development, account management, recruitment and operations, then 16 years in India as Country Head of Business.
- 6 years in EdTech — BridgeLabz as Head of Customer Success and Head of Lateral Business (2019–2022), then vFactor's own training and EdTech operations (2022–present).
- Procured, architected and delivered offshore software projects built in Chennai, including a blood bank product, a recruitment portal and an event management platform.
- Ran domestic recruitment, software development delivery, and US and Australian staffing markets simultaneously.
Career
Three decades, three defining roles
2022 — Present
Founder and Principal Consultant, vFactor Solutions
HR consulting and recruitment outsourcing; client acquisition and relationship management; IT recruitment from freshers to leadership; training and EdTech operations.
2019 — 2022
Head of Customer Success / Head, Lateral Business — BridgeLabz
Led customer success and enrollment operations; new client acquisition; managed counselling and lead-generation teams; ran seminars, orientations and career guidance programs; built the lateral hiring vertical.
1999 — 2019
Senior Vice President, Everest Consulting Group
Led recruitment and business development across India and the US; managed offshore recruitment teams serving the US market; owned account management, software product development, operations and profitability.
Earlier career
Reviews
What clients and colleagues say
★★★★★
"It has been many years since I personally know Vijay from vFactor Solutions, who has vast experience in sourcing software engineers for clients across India and the United States. I admire his dedication and determination to add value to his work."
Antony — Project Manager and Architect, ex. Sports Mechanics
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For candidates
Looking for your next role?
Roughly half the people who reach this site are candidates, not clients. Send your profile and it goes into a real pipeline rather than a database nobody opens.
- Engineering, IT, finance, HR and technical support roles across India
- Freshers through to leadership positions
- Your profile is never shared with a client without your consent
- You will hear back either way
Send your profile
Share the essentials here and email your CV to vijay@vfactorsolutions.com.
Get in touch
Your next great hire starts here
Every engagement starts with a conversation about what precision hiring looks like for you. No pitch deck, no discovery fee.
Emailvijay@vfactorsolutions.com Phone+91 91504 62580 LinkedInVijay PurushothamanChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Working with clients across IT, manufacturing, banking, finance and education, in Indian and international markets. Response within one business day.
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