What started as a small training institute named Pharmahood Consultants at Ashika’s residence has over a period of time evolved as a full-fledged executive recruitment firm - SnapSeaarch, one of the leading recruitment firms in India and overseas. The journey, however, dates back when Ashika, who has a robust experience in product management, sales & marketing, was working at Zydus Cadila. It was during this tenure when she sensed the various pain-points in terms of training team candidates with basic knowledge about pharmacology and Pharma/medicine at ground level. In several instances, companies were seen to recruit sales members and provide them with induction training programmes for about 3-4 weeks. Post these sessions few employees back out and few were not found fit, eventually incurring losses to the companies.

Inception of Pharmahood Consultants was to bridge the gap of Demand-Supply, whereby the company initially focused on recruitment alongside providing Training in Communication, Pharmacology and Anatomy to those who wanted to build a career in the Pharma industry. “Majority of the Pharma companies accepted us in no time, as this was a game changer in the market. We used to provide the basic understanding of the therapeutic segments along with prerequisites of Pharma Industry. All and all, optimizing the training cost and time for our clients,” asserts Ashika.

Like a blue streak, the pharma companies saw a huge potential and understood the credibility of the founder's experience in the field. There after, Pharmahood started serving senior mandates exclusively for clients. Referred candidates by Ashika and team saved HR counter parts’ time asserting repeated business from the same clients. From 2005 onwards, Pharmahood started providing recruitment services to other sectors like Manufacturing, Engineering, Chemicals, Real-Estate, BFSI, Power & Infra, and others.

Snap Seaarch-Quality Uncompromised!
"With the basic values, ethics and honest motive of servicing, we at Pharmahood were always viewed as the recruitment business partner to our clients and not just manpower consultant," avers Ashika.

Ashika further adds, “Excelling from Healthcare to 17 different verticals and successful in bagging niche requirements, gifted us an opportunity to rebrand ourselves as Snap Seaarch - boldly declaring about Our Work As Quality With Speed.”

Challenges are a part of any entrepreneur’s life. With life cycle of the industry, challenges moved on from technology scarcity to easy access to technology and thus the easy availability of resources to the clients too. That was the primary hindrance that came to the recruitment consultants as clients started their in-house cell for recruiting their internal employees. Ashika enlightens, “Adaptation to the challenges like duplicity, TAT of delivery were never the problems with us as we had carved our niche in search from the inception of the business. When we started, challenges were finding and locating the candidate and there were only a few consultants like us who can give PAN India candidates. During 2003-2005, Job Portals were not available and consultants relied on their own database. Our skills of headhunting, mapping and training of team helped us bag accolades from clients.”

This is how SnapSeaarch now is complementing the HR counter space in their difficult search and helping them in scouting the best resource as best fit. A well verses team at SnapSeaarch marks difference with their quality uncompromised for the entire process. “Our TATs of shortlisting, selection, offered candidates to the shared profiles has always been exceling in the industry. Our inhouse training, internal process and systems, ownership and accountability of team and their ongoing desire to excel in the same for betterment at all three interfaces of candidate, consultant and client has been our biggest weapon till date,” she smiles as she speaks.

The 3P's(People,Process,& Policy)for Effective Hiring
Best known for the ability to understand and bridge the gap between candidate abilities and corporate needs thereby becoming instrumental in changing talented individuals into human assets, SnapSeaarch is the first choice for any niche hiring and for Executive Search Services irrespective of the industry or sector. Backed with immense understanding in corporate roles, senior leadership hiring, they have introduced Retainer Search - A most holistic perspective on the talents- identification of Competencies, Skills, and Behaviour such as Decision quality, strategic mindset, global perspective, business insight, risk taking etc. The performance profile of candidate is created and documented by hiring team with critical experiences required for the role which enables us to have an evidence-based assessment process. Support services like reference check, documentation gathering and validation, reference check, travel & accommodation arrangements for interviews has made SnapSeaarch team favorable at client's desk.