Karimah Shaw
Chief Operating Officer
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iRxcruit
Karimah is a recruitment expert with over 7 years of experience delivering results across agency and in-house roles for leading companies including Hays, Uber, and BGC Group. She has successfully placed hundreds of candidates across tech, finance, energy and business support, and has led high-volume hiring campaigns saving organisations over £200,000 in agency fees through strategic sourcing.||Beyond placements, Karimah has coached and trained over 2,000 individuals through CV workshops and employability programmes - with a focus on early careers and untapped talent. Her ability to understand both the candidate and employer journey has made her a trusted voice in bridging the gap between potential and opportunity.||Driven by lived experience growing up in Croydon, Karimah recognised the long standing barriers that prevent talented individuals from accessing meaningful work. In response, she's building iRxcruit, a people-first platform that reimagines how early careers recruitment is done.||Karimah is passionate about building smarter, fairer systems in recruitment that don't just fill roles, but develop people, proving that impact and commercial success can coexist.
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Recruitment Isn't Broken, It's Just Not Built for Everyone08-Oct-2025Impact Stage