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Real Estate & Infrastructure Practice
Real estate hiring is project-site hiring. The same developer may need a planning engineer in Gurugram, a site engineer in Pune and a liaison manager in Bengaluru in the same quarter, each requiring local knowledge the others do not have. Liaison and approvals in particular is the least transferable role in Indian business — the relationships and the process knowledge are municipal, not national.
How We Work This Sector
We recruit across residential and commercial developers, infrastructure and EPC contractors, co-working and managed office operators, REITs and investment platforms, facility management companies, and real estate consultancies and broking firms. Each has a different centre of gravity: a developer's cost is in projects and sales, an EPC contractor's is in planning, billing and claims, and an FM company's is in volume site staffing.
On the sales side, the screen is numbers and inventory type. A candidate who sold affordable housing in a tier-2 city has not done the job of a luxury residential closer in South Mumbai, even though both CVs will say 'real estate sales'. We screen on ticket size, inventory sold, source mix (channel partner versus direct versus digital leads) and personal closure numbers.
Hiring Reality Check
Roles We Fill
Permanent, contract, executive search and bulk hiring are all available within this practice.
Project managers, site and execution engineers (civil, structural), construction managers, MEP engineers, finishing and interiors execution
Planning engineers (Primavera, MS Project), quantity surveyors, billing and RA bill engineers, contracts and claims managers, tendering
Architects, structural and MEP design engineers, BIM modellers and coordinators, landscape and urban design, sustainability and IGBC specialists
Liaison managers for municipal and statutory approvals, RERA compliance, title and land acquisition, legal and documentation
Direct and channel sales managers, CP relationship managers, pre-sales and CRM, digital and performance marketing, NRI sales desks
Procurement and purchase managers, vendor development, site stores, material planning and reconciliation
Facility managers, technical services (HVAC, electrical, plumbing), soft services, housekeeping and security supervision, property and lease management
Project heads and COOs, heads of sales, business heads for a city or region, CFO and CXO mandates (via executive search)
How We Screen
Built-up area and project value personally executed, project type (high-rise, villa, commercial, industrial, roads, metro), tooling (AutoCAD, Revit, Primavera, SAP), and billing or claims value handled
Ticket size and inventory type sold, personal closure numbers for three years, channel-partner network held in the specific micro-market, and RERA and documentation familiarity
BE/B.Tech Civil and M.Tech Structures, B.Arch and COA registration, PMP for project managers, IGBC AP and LEED for green building, NEBOSH and IOSH for site safety, Primavera certification for planners
The Hard Parts
We would rather tell you where a mandate is genuinely difficult than run a search that quietly stalls.
A liaison manager who clears files in Gurugram cannot do the same in Pune. These are city-specific hires sourced from a small known pool, and any CV claiming multi-city liaison depth gets tested hard before it reaches you.
A site closes and the team disperses. Candidates price that instability in, so offers for site-based roles must either beat the market or come with a clear onward path. We say so at briefing rather than running a search that stalls at the offer stage.
Team numbers get quoted as personal numbers routinely. We ask for monthly closures, ticket size and source mix for the last three years, and we check the claim against the inventory the employer actually had to sell.
Approvals, funding or a RERA issue can freeze a project and a mandate with it. We plan around it by keeping the shortlist warm, and we are direct with clients about the reputational cost of offers withdrawn after acceptance.
Talent Geography
We recruit pan-India, but we tell you up front which market a role is realistically filled from.
Largest developer and commercial real estate market in the north; the deepest pool for projects, liaison and luxury residential sales.
Hiring in this marketRedevelopment and high-rise expertise, REIT and investment-side talent, and the highest ticket-size sales experience in the country.
Hiring in this marketCommercial office and tech-park development, co-working operators, and strong facility and asset management talent.
Hiring in this marketFast residential and commercial expansion; good availability of execution and planning engineers at competitive bands.
Hiring in this marketInfrastructure and EPC contracting depth, plus a strong structural design and MEP pool.
Hiring in this marketTier-2 residential growth markets where sales teams and site engineers must be hired locally.
Hiring in this marketRole Briefs
Indicative salary bands, realistic timelines and the checklist we screen on, role by role.
Engagement Models
Permanent staffing services for employers across India.
How it worksContract and temporary staffing across India with payroll, PF, ESIC and statutory compliance held by us.
How it worksRetained executive search for CXO, VP and functional-head roles across India.
How it worksRecruitment process outsourcing in India.
How it worksVolume hiring and campus recruitment across India — 50 to 500+ positions with walk-in drives, assessments, venue and logistics coordination, offer roll-out and joining follow-up.
How it worksThird-party payroll outsourcing and statutory compliance in India — PF, ESIC, professional tax, monthly challans, wage registers and audit-ready records for your contractual workforce.
How it worksFAQs
Yes. We sequence it the way sites actually staff up: project manager and planning first, then execution and QS, then MEP, finishing and stores timed to the construction schedule. Site-based roles are sourced from the surrounding region wherever possible, since candidates already living near the site are far more likely to stay through the project.
Yes, but strictly city by city. Liaison capability is tied to a specific municipal and statutory ecosystem, so we source within the city where the project sits and verify which authorities and which categories of approval the candidate has personally handled. A pan-India liaison claim is a signal to probe, not a credential.
We ask for monthly closure numbers, average ticket size, inventory type and the split between channel-partner, direct and digital leads across the last three years, then sanity-check it against the inventory their employer actually had on sale. Team numbers presented as personal numbers is the most common issue in this sector and it is flagged on the shortlist.
Yes. Technical services, housekeeping, security supervision and soft services staff are hired at volume, usually on our payroll as contract staffing with PF, ESIC and statutory compliance handled by us, so the principal-employer exposure is covered and documented monthly.
Something not covered here? Email info@recruitmentconsultant.co.in with the role and we will come back with a realistic timeline.
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