Every few months, someone predicts that Artificial Intelligence will make recruitment agencies irrelevant. After all, AI can search thousands of profiles in seconds, identify keywords, rank candidates, draft messages, analyse resumes and even conduct preliminary assessments.

If a recruitment agency's job is simply to search job portals, download CVs and forward them to a client, then the question is fair:

Rajesh Gupta, Head of Operations at a manufacturing company, needed a certified welder for a quality-inspection role. He briefed Ritu Verma from PeopleRUs Recruitment Agency,

Walk into the HR department of almost any manufacturing company and you will find the same question appearing again and again in recruitment discussions: