The Modern Recruiter: Setting acceptance deadline on your job offers

I recently asked our Talent Acquisition WhatsApp community if they give a deadline to accept their job offers. Almost everyone said yes, which is expected. However, I dug a bit more and asked What deadline you give to the candidates to accept your job offers? I heard back a wide range of values: 24 to… Continue reading The Modern Recruiter: Setting acceptance deadline on your job offers
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The Modern Recruiter series: One small step that may transform your hiring process

I’ve been intending to write about this for 6 weeks. Given the high impact we have seen with this approach, this delay makes me feel a bit guity. Before diving into it, let me emphasize – you really got to actually try it out to see the benefits of the suggestion I’m going to make… Continue reading The Modern Recruiter series: One small step that may transform your hiring process
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The Modern Recruiter series: Increase your joining ratio with Reverse Interviews!

People not joining after accepting offers. This has been a big problem shared by the companies and they have been looking at many ways to increase the joining ratio. Many solutions have been thrown around to address this problem – from blacklisting candidates:to sending them laptops like Kunal Shah or offering money like Zappos if they… Continue reading The Modern Recruiter series: Increase your joining ratio with Reverse Interviews!
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The Modern Recruiter series: How to increase your joining ratio?

When it comes to hiring, a lot of companies do everything to increase joining ratio but are often unsuccessful. They look at salaries, they look at their responsiveness, they look at their Glassdoor reviews to increase their joining ratio, but it seems there is something more they often miss. But before going into the way… Continue reading The Modern Recruiter series: How to increase your joining ratio?
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The Modern Recruiter series: Recruiting inspiration from ThoughtWorks

I saw this recently on LinkedIn and immediately was impressed. In an otherwise boring world of hiring where recruiters just say “we are hiring”, this post felt like a breath of fresh air. What I’m talking about? This LinkedIn post from Rakhee, a recruiter at ThoughtWorks: To give you a quick overview, a candidate wrote… Continue reading The Modern Recruiter series: Recruiting inspiration from ThoughtWorks
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Dear recruiters in emerging cities: welcome onboard!

Since we rolled out CutShort 3 years ago, users from 10,000+ companies have signed up on CutShort. They have closed 4000+ positions using our unique AI powered solution that brings in-built sourcing, pre-assessments, screening tools and automation to the recruitment process. However, we have noticed one growing gap. While the companies in bigger cities have… Continue reading Dear recruiters in emerging cities: welcome onboard!
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