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Inside the Cutshort Buzz Machine

The marketers that make us tick Marketing at Cutshort is not merely a business function. It’s the beating heart that gives life to everything we do. Be it getting thousands of companies and candidates to our platform or ensuring customer delight – the Cutshort buzz machine sets the highest standards for everything they touch. While… Continue reading

Are ESOPs going to make you rich?

It’s only been five months into this year, but Indian startup employees have made more than $159 Million in ESOP buybacks. That’s nearly ₹1200 Cr. – around ₹1.2 Cr. per employee on average if we assume as many as 1000 employees participated in the buyback. This is the kind of number that can make anyone… Continue reading

How can tech recruiters ensure sky-high joining ratios?

This secret weapon might help. Gone are the days when companies would put up their job vacancies once a year and wait for a queue of talent to choose from. With businesses increasing their tech and digital budgets and a boom of startups all over the world, tech talent really does have plenty to choose… Continue reading

Five tips to ensure career success when you negotiate salary for your next job

When interviewing for a new role, how much you will be remunerated for your efforts is likely to be one of the main items on your list of priorities. Even though we don’t negotiate salaries anymore at Cutshort, most other companies do. And in our years of work with thousands of candidates – it’s the… Continue reading

How to build the initial team at your startup?

When you start up, finding your first 5 customers is important. But equally critical is to find your first 20 employees. Why the first 20? Well, these are the people who will traverse the zero-to-one journey with the founders and will form the foundation of the company. Be it the product architecture, communication strategy, or… Continue reading

The joy of building Cutshort together

Charting our ambitious future during the Goa offsite. A village can raise a child. But when it comes to building a company, even a company could feel overwhelmed. This is why we built Cutshort on the shoulder of giants and never fooled ourselves into thinking that it’s an individualistic effort. Where we are is a… Continue reading

What we learned 10 months after we stopped salary negotiatons

We took an unconventional decision 10 months ago. Here’s what we learned… Never take the first salary number you are offered. You’ve got to negotiate for a higher pay before you pick up a new stint and then multiple times during your career. – Every career expert, anywhere Why experts give this advice? Simple –… Continue reading

How to reduce candidate dropouts while hiring talent?

Quick and simple tips to help increase your joining ratio! Offers being rejected is the last thing a recruiter wants at the end of an excruciating process of finding, interviewing, and negotiating the right candidate for an open position. While one-off rejections can happen due to changes in the external circumstances but it’s a cause… Continue reading

Spot good (and bad) companies before applying

We've put together this handy guide on what to look for when researching a company and how to evaluate it without necessarily spending hours interviewing with them.

The Cutshort Culture Guide

A sneak peek of what makes us tick and how we get stuff done at Cutshort Build a capable team and enable them to work together on your mission. Everything else will fall in place. -Jack Welch. Actually, no, it’s Nikunj, our founder who says this. 🙂 And culture is what enables people to make… Continue reading