Minds & Values — Core Recruitment Specialists
About us

Built by veterans. Run with conviction.

Minds & Values is the recruitment practice of Mindspire HR Services Private Limited — a founder-led organisation specialising in core recruitment alongside a complete HR services suite, with clients across India, the UK, the US and the Middle East.

Our story

A simple promise: quality hires, delivered with care.

Minds & Values was founded by veterans with close to four decades of recruitment leadership at organisations such as UB Group, RPG Group, Capgemini, Dell, Mphasis, Infosys, Mascot Systems and Citibank IT. That depth of experience is not a marketing line — it shapes how every mandate is briefed, shortlisted and closed.

Our model is deliberately transparent. We charge only employers, never candidates, which keeps candidate relationships clean and our shortlists honest. Founders stay personally involved in delivery, ensuring quality hires with minimal turnaround time.

With a scalable team, a sharp methodology and growing demand for specialist talent, Minds & Values is positioned to be a long-term partner — for one critical role or for an entire RPO engagement.

Minds & Values
2019
Founded, building on four decades of leadership experience.
Mission

Help our clients build best-of-breed teams that create and sustain competitive advantage.

Vision

To be an HR solutions partner globally admired for our people, our performance and our innovation.

Leadership

The brains behind the idea.

Our founders bring a combined seventy-five years of recruitment judgement — and they remain personally involved in every client engagement.

V. Kandaswamy

V. Kandaswamy

Founder

A Commerce graduate with an additional Post Graduation in Business Administration, Kandaswamy brings over 40 years of recruitment and talent acquisition leadership. He has led global recruitment functions at UB Group, RPG Group, Capgemini, Dell and Mphasis. His deep industry insights and disciplined leadership form the backbone of Minds & Values.

Sujatha Chari

Sujatha Chari

Co-Founder

A science graduate with 35 years of comprehensive HR experience, Sujatha has handled end-to-end recruitment and HR roles at Infosys, Mascot Systems, Citibank IT and several startups. Her strategic mindset and operational rigour complement the founder's vision, enabling seamless recruitment delivery.

What makes us unique

Five attributes. One way of working.

Knowledge

Decades of pattern recognition across roles, industries and geographies — applied to every brief.

Confidence

Calibrated judgement that lets us take on hard, ambiguous or specialist mandates with conviction.

Trust

We say what we will do, and we do what we say. It is why clients come back four to five times for every brief.

Speed

Lean turnaround times without dilution of quality — we measure ourselves on time-to-quality-shortlist.

Execution

From kickoff to offer accept, our delivery discipline is what turns capability into hires on the ground.

Team at a glance

A team built for breadth and depth.

50+ recruiters strategically spread across India, with IT and non-IT specialists assigned by client need. Headquartered in Bangalore, with bandwidth to scale on demand.

50+
Recruiters strong
scalable to a prior peak of 153
73%
Postgraduates & specialists
graduates + PG-HR + engineering
85 : 15
Female : Male diversity
intentional, sustained mix
3–6 yrs
Average experience
with 25–35 yr leadership
63%
Graduates with PG-HR
27%
Engineering graduates (CSE, Mech, E&C, MCA)
6%
Post-graduates
4%
Leadership (PG-HR)
Geographic coverage

PAN India, global reach.

India · UK · US · Middle East · APAC

Southern India

Chennai, Bangalore, Kerala, AP & Telangana

Western India

Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh

Northern India

Delhi, Delhi NCR, Gurgaon, Noida

Eastern India

Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa (served via North)

Let's talk about your next hire.

Whether it's a single executive search or an end-to-end RPO engagement — we'd love to learn what you're building.

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