Industry First, Theory Second
Every framework I teach has been pressure-tested on real shop floors, in QA audits, and across academic placement cycles — not invented in a slide deck.
Founder · Pharma · Educator · Strategist
EightYearsInsideTheSystem.
Now I fix what broke for students and professionals globally. Founder of EduRecru — India's first AI-native career consultancy. 500+ careers transformed.
Built On The Floor. Refined In The Room.
A working philosophy stitched together from hospital pharmacy, regulated manufacturing, the classroom, and a thousand 1:1 career conversations.
Systems Over Slogans
Careers don't break because of effort. They break because of mis-engineered systems. I rebuild the system around the person.
Proof, Not Promises
500+ careers transformed. 85% placement rate. The work speaks before the pitch deck does.
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Inside The System
My StoryI Spent
I Spent
Eight Years
Inside The
System.
Eight years of real floors — not theory — across hospital pharmacy, manufacturing QA, academia, and consulting. I bridge the gap between high-stakes regulated work and human-centric career architecture.
Kartik Agnihotri
Founder · M.Pharm · MBA (HR)
🏥National Heart Institute🔬QA · N Lifesciences🎓Asst. Professor · AKTU & GGSIPU📊AML Pharmaceuticals🚀Founder · EduRecru
01 / Pharma
Manufacturing Precision
Applying six-sigma rigor to the chaos of career transitions and institutional talent acquisition. Hospital floors, QA audits, regulated production.
02 / Strategy
Systemic Rewiring
Designing career pathways that actually scale — for the tier-2/3 student AND the corporation that needs to hire them.
What I Know Deeply
Cross-Sector Depth That No Textbook Builds.
Eight years of real floors — not theory — across pharma, academia, and consulting.
Pharmaceutical Sciences & QA
QA/QC auditing, GxP compliance, SOP development, process validation, analytical method development (UV-Vis). Published research in Atorvastatin and Aripiprazole estimation.
QA/QCGxPProcess ValidationResearch
Career Architecture & Counselling
ATS-optimised CV building, mock interview simulation, career mapping using the ERA™ framework. Deep specialisation in pharma & life sciences hiring, with cross-stream reach into engineering, management, arts.
ERA™ ToolsATSCareer MappingInterview Prep
Academic Leadership & Pedagogy
Pharmacology, regulatory science, and drug safety instruction at AKTU & GGSIPU. Case-based curriculum redesign, student research supervision, and industry-readiness integration into academic delivery.
PharmacologyRegulatory ScienceTeachingResearch Supervision
Proprietary Framework
ERA Tools™ — Built From the Inside Out.
Most career tools are built by people who've never sat in a hiring meeting or graded a university assignment. ERA Tools™ are different — they encode cross-sector hiring intelligence collected over eight years of industry and academic work.
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Education Mapping
Identifies and fills credential gaps using current employer expectations — not generic graduate profiles.
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Recruitment Readiness
ATS-pass CV architecture, role-matched cover letters, and interview simulation calibrated to Indian hiring patterns.
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Abroad Pathways
Study abroad guidance with university shortlisting, SOP strategy, and scholarship mapping for pharma, science, and management streams.
Every Role
Was Research.
The Accumulation
- 2012–2014
The Pharmacist
Built clinical rigour at National Heart Institute — medication management, multidisciplinary teams, patient-facing care.
Hospital Pharmacy - 2014–2016
The Marketer
Strategic marketing at AML Pharmaceuticals — how products are positioned, sold, and differentiated.
Brand Strategy - 2017–2018
The QA Lead
Manufacturing floor reality at N Lifesciences: audits, SOPs, validation, the unforgiving standards of regulated pharma.
GxP · QA/QC - 2019–2021
The Lecturer
Pharmacology and drug-safety instruction at AKTU institutes — first direct window into the campus-industry gap.
Academia - 2021–2022
The Educator
Redesigned delivery at AKTU & GGSIPU with case-based pedagogy. Supervised research published in peer-reviewed journals.
Pedagogy · Research - 2022–Now
The FounderNow
Built EduRecru — the AI-native, data-grounded, accessible consultancy the market was missing.
EduRecru · ERA™
What People Say
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Kartik runs his practice the way we run our plant — with discipline, measurement, and zero tolerance for waste. He doesn't coach careers, he engineers them.— Chairman, AN INKS
Work With Me
Fix The Presentation.
Whether you're a student, a professional at a crossroads, or an institution looking to improve placement outcomes — send a message.
Or write directly: kartik@edurecru.com · LinkedIn