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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

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

Tech hiring in 2022 – quick hiring guide is here

Here is a quick hiring guide with our key learnings on how to improve your tech hiring in 2022. If 2021 was any indication, this year is likely to get tougher for founders and recruiters. At a time when money has stopped being a constraint, many companies are fighting a losing battle. This is the… Continue reading

The Modern Recruiter series: 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 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: 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: Understand your target candidate

Today, while going through the prized “ebooks” folder on my computer, I found an ebook we had released last year. And I’m glad I rediscovered it – it was a good refresher as some of the takeaways have sort of become fuzzy over time.Here is the ebook cover. You can click on it to download… Continue reading

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: 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 a… Continue reading