Sheetal Sarda — computer engineer, mother of three, wife of a Qualcomm senior director — gave up nothing to build something. Three years in, she is planning to grow ten times.
She did not need to start a business. Her husband is a Senior Director at Qualcomm India. Her elder son works in equity research in Washington DC. Her twins are in management and engineering. By every conventional measure, Sheetal Sarda’s life was already built. She built something anyway. Not because she had to. Because she had more to give than her life was asking for.
For Sheetal, something had always been missing. A computer engineer by training, she had spent years channeling her ambitions into whatever the moment allowed — homemade chocolates, sourcing return gifts for clients abroad, teaching Mathematics and Science to school students. None of it was small, exactly. But none of it was what she meant when she imagined, quietly, what she was actually capable of. “One thing I felt was missing in my earlier ventures was structure,” she says. “Everything was very informal, and I always wanted to build something more professional and organised, where I could work with professionals and create something long-term.”
When her children grew up and the weight of daily family responsibilities began to lift, Sheetal started looking. She found Talent Corner HR Services through an internet search. She watched the testimonial videos. She read about the model. What she saw was something she had not found before: a professional structure built for women like her, who had big ambitions and real constraints, and who wanted both. “I realised this is a genuine company which is supporting women like me who have a big dream but would like to work from home, at their own time, and still have access to a professional work culture,” she says.
She had doubts. She says this without hesitation. Would the clients be real and consistent? Would the payments come through as promised? Was this genuinely what it appeared to be? One conversation changed everything. “I had a conversation with Rashesh sir, and the way he explained everything patiently really cleared all my doubts and gave me confidence to move forward.” Her family — husband and children — trusted her decision and got excited alongside her. She signed up.
Her first day was anxious and electric in equal measure. The induction training, run by Priyanka, was methodical — how to read a job description, how to search for candidates, how to communicate professionally with clients. Her team leader, Joyeeta, assigned her first client. The position did not close. Joyeeta told her it was just the beginning. And it was.
About a year in, something shifted — or rather, stopped. Sheetal was following the same process, putting in the same effort, and the results had dried up. For nearly two months, she sat with the discomfort of a business that was not responding the way she expected. It was during this period that Rashesh recommended a book on manifestation by Roxie Nafousi to all franchise partners. Sheetal ordered it that same evening. “It turned out to be a life-changing book for me,” she says. “It helped me rebuild my confidence, believe in myself again, and give my 100% without overthinking the results.” She also called Joyeeta — and they spoke for an hour. “I never expected that one conversation would help me so much.”
There was a moment that told Sheetal everything she needed to know about why she was doing this — and it had nothing to do with her own numbers.
A fresher came to her — academically strong, visibly nervous, without the confidence to carry himself through an interview. Sheetal worked with him. Not as a recruiter processing a placement. As someone who recognised what it felt like to have the ability without the right platform to express it. She guided him on how to speak, how to answer, how to carry himself. He got the job.
“The happiness and satisfaction that he felt gives you immense joy too,” she says. “I realised that this journey was not only helping me achieve my own goals — it was helping other people achieve theirs.” She calls recruitment a social responsibility. That reframing says everything about why, three years later, she is still here.
Three years in, Sheetal works from 11 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening — her hours, her boundaries, her call. She focuses on two positions at a time, gives each one genuine attention, and closes her laptop at a time that still leaves room for her family. Year by year, she says, the growth is visible — professionally and financially. Her next chapter is already mapped: a small office, two or three team members, a business grown ten times from where it stands today. In recruitment, you do not plan your next ten times unless your first chapter has already proven the model. Sheetal’s has.
To the women she knows are out there — educated, capable, somewhere between a career they left and a future they have not started — her message is direct. “Trust yourself and don’t think it is too late to start again.” And then, in the words she returns to on the harder days: Darr ke aage jeet hai. Beyond fear lies victory. “Just take that leap of faith. After that, the sky is the limit.”
Sheetal Sarda is a franchise partner at Talent Corner HR Services, based in Hyderabad. She holds a degree in Computer Engineering from MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune.
About Talent Corner HR Services: Talent Corner HR Services is India’s leading recruitment franchise network, with over 100 active franchise partners across more than 25 cities. Founded in 2002, the company has successfully filled over 30,000 positions for 3,800+ client companies across India.
