How Ravi Prakash Kumar Built EarlyJobs into a Recruitment Giant from the Ground Up
BENGALURU, May 12, 2025 – EarlyJobs, the tech-enabled hiring platform that combines AI with a network of freelance recruiters, has emerged as a disruptive force in India's recruitment landscape. Founded by Ravi Prakash Kumar, who hails from a village near the historic city of Gaya in Bihar, the company has transformed from humble beginnings into a recruitment powerhouse serving 150+ cities across India.
It all began with Victaman—Saurav Kumar’s multi-service venture offering software development, digital marketing, and recruitment solutions. As the platform gained traction, it witnessed a surge in applications, especially from women seeking remote recruitment roles and aspiring students looking for recruitment internships. Many of these women came from recruitment backgrounds but had stepped away from work due to maternity or family responsibilities and were eager to restart their careers. Additionally, countless college students were seeking internship opportunities to gain hands-on experience in the recruitment field. However, Victaman lacked the technology and structured processes to support scalable hiring and internship management. This highlighted a critical gap: the need for a flexible, outcome-driven recruitment model that could serve both experienced professionals and aspiring recruiters. That insight led to the birth of EarlyJobs—built to empower freelance recruiters, especially women, provide valuable internship experiences for students, and deliver efficient, scalable hiring solutions for businesses.
Ravi’s journey began with a vision to transform the way India recruits. Armed with deep insights into recruitment incompetency and an unshakable belief in empowering talent, he started working on EarlyJobs with his team from Bengaluru. What started as a modest initiative has now grown into a formidable recruitment force.
"When you come from a tier-3 city, you understand the disconnect between talent and opportunity in a way others might not," Ravi explains. "Companies struggle to find quality candidates beyond major cities, while exceptional talent in smaller towns remains undiscovered due to systemic barriers."
The platform currently serves 50+ enterprise clients including Flipkart, Bigbasket, HDFC, Teleperformance & Starhealth Insurance. With over 1,000 successful job placements facilitated in its first operational year, EarlyJobs has validated its business model while maintaining a network of 180+ HR recruiters managing approximately 3,000 active positions.
EarlyJobs differentiates itself in the recruitment industry with a fully performance-driven hiring model. Breaking away from traditional subscription-based or upfront fee structures, the platform operates on a pay-per-hire basis—clients pay only after a successful placement. By integrating AI-powered candidate matching with a nationwide network of freelance recruiters, EarlyJobs enables companies to streamline hiring without maintaining large internal HR teams. Freelance recruiters enjoy the freedom of remote work and are rewarded based on performance, while employers benefit from a seamless, cost-effective process with the added security of a free replacement guarantee if a hire doesn’t work out.
The platform's impact extends beyond helping businesses find talent. More than 80% of EarlyJobs' recruiter network consists of women professionals working remotely and creating flexible earning opportunities. "Traditional employment often places women at a disadvantage due to rigid schedules and location constraints," Ravi notes. "Our platform enables skilled professionals, especially women, to build independent recruitment careers with the flexibility to balance work and personal responsibilities."
EarlyJobs also provides valuable internship opportunities for students and aspiring recruiters looking to gain hands-on experience in the recruitment field. The internship program serves as an entry point for young talent to learn recruitment processes, develop skills in candidate sourcing and screening, and eventually transition into freelance recruitment roles. This dual approach of supporting both experienced professionals returning to the workforce and nurturing budding talent has created a dynamic ecosystem of recruiters at various career stages.
After operating on minimal resources for its first year, reinvesting all revenue into platform development and recruiter onboarding, EarlyJobs recently secured seed funding to accelerate its growth plans.
"This capital infusion allows us to accelerate our technology roadmap while expanding geographically," Ravi says. "We're particularly focused on tier-2 and tier-3 cities, where traditional recruitment agencies have limited presence but talent is abundant."
According to the company's growth projections, EarlyJobs plans to onboard 10,000 recruiters by the end of 2025 and build 750+ franchise-led recruitment hubs across India. With the vision to facilitate over 1 million job opportunities monthly by 2027, the company is positioned to become India's largest hiring engine. These franchise opportunities will allow entrepreneurs to set up their own recruitment agencies in any part of India under the EarlyJobs umbrella, further extending the company's reach while creating additional business opportunities.
"We're not attempting to remove humans from recruitment," Ravi clarifies. "We're using technology to make human recruiters superhuman—able to match candidates more precisely while handling greater volume."
