Kartik Agnihotri
Pharmaceutical scientist. Founder, EduRecru. Career strategist for pharma & life sciences.
I'm Kartik Agnihotri — pharmaceutical scientist by training, academic by practice, and founder of EduRecru, India's first AI-native career consultancy for pharma and life sciences.
For over a decade I've worked at the intersection of pharma manufacturing, higher education, and hiring. I've sat on hiring panels for formulation, QA, and regulatory roles; advised pharmacy institutes on curriculum-to-industry gaps; and walked individual candidates from a stalled job hunt into roles they stay in past month nine. The thread across all of it is the same — closing the gap between what classrooms teach and what employers actually pay for.
Today, EduRecru has helped more than 500 candidates land roles across pharma, biotech, and adjacent industries with an 85% placement rate and a growing alumni community mentoring the next cohort. I also advise ed-tech, recruitment, and pharma-training founders building products in this space.
This site is part portfolio, part field journal. Read the essays, see the case studies, browse the services, or get in touch.
Experience highlights
- 2019 – present
Founder, EduRecru
AI-native pharma career consultancy. 500+ placements, 60+ partner institutions and employers.
- 2017 – 2019
Senior Academic & Industry Liaison
Built placement pipelines and curriculum-feedback loops across three pharmacy institutes.
- 2013 – 2017
Pharmaceutical Scientist
Formulation and QA roles across generics and regulated-market manufacturing.
Credentials
- M.Pharm — Pharmaceutics, Punjab Technical University
- B.Pharm — Indira Gandhi National Open University
- 10+ years across pharma manufacturing, education, and hiring
- Published essays on pharma careers, hiring, and the education–industry gap
How to verify
Every claim above is verifiable. Connect on LinkedIn for credentials and recommendations, read the case studies for engagement-level outcomes, or read recent essays to see how I think before you decide to work with me.