GCC and Tech Hiring

We have all been at the receiving end of interviews, have we not? The ghosting, waiting, and follow-ups are part of the process but the most frustrating part is figuring out why they didn’t make it to a particular role. Most candidates want feedback. But companies and recruiters are reluctant to share feedback. That leads… Continue reading How to give great feedback to interview candidates?

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 can tech recruiters ensure sky-high joining ratios?

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 How to build the initial team at your startup?

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 How to reduce candidate dropouts while hiring talent?

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 Tech hiring in 2023 – quick hiring guide is here

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: Some also… Continue reading The Modern Recruiter series: Setting acceptance deadline on your job offers

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

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!

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: Understand your target candidate