Why hundreds of companies are switching to CutShort to hire in 2021

Nikunj Verma
Cutshort
Published in
4 min readMar 15, 2021

After an uncertain 2020, the hiring activity has heated up in 2021.

And we are seeing a lot of companies switching to CutShort from the conventional methods of hiring.

Some friends asked us why is that happening?

So, here are the 4 main reasons:

#1: CutShort is now the most popular website to hire premium talent

Not just the quantity, but the variety and quality of candidates has improved dramatically.

The tide has finally turned. Modern professionals now prefer a solution like CutShort that connects them to not only recruiters but also hiring managers, interviewers etc unlike conventional job portals such as Naukri.com or Shine.com or Timesjobs.com.

We tried LinkedIn but the quality & relevance was an issue. Then we tried CutShort and closed 2 roles within 10 days. The variety & quality we see here— we don’t see anywhere else.
-Deobrat Singh(CoFounder, CreatorStack)

#2: Companies are seeing tremendous results beyond “number of positions closed”

Let’s admit it — closing your roles is important, but it’s not the only thing. After all — you can download 1000 of resumes, call 100s of candidates, do 50s interviews and make 1 offer.

The problem with all this repetitive work is that you spend more time running around vs finding, understanding and engaging with the best talent.

More than just closing roles, the companies now need to ensure they are hiring the right candidates who are going to perform well and are going to stay in the company for 3 to 5 years at least. How to do this? There is no one solution here but doing the following helps:

  • Discover the most relevant candidates easily
  • Design the hiring experience to get unique insights about each candidate. Things like conversational screening questions, audio responses, etc helps in this.
  • Building trust by offering faster interactions with the actual hiring team members

With CutShort’s comprehensive solution, the companies are able to do this much better. The results are clear:

Yes, more positions are being closed

Estimated trend of number of hirings closed via CutShort

But more importantly, they are able to spot the top performers

An example is:

The Senior Engineering Leader we hired from CutShort recently is such a great find. Everyone’s so happy with his performance. CutShort made it easy for us to find him — hiring closed in just 2 weeks, end to end.
-Alpana Java (Director, HR at JFrog, ex-Lehman Brothers)

which led me to write this twitter thread where I explain the reasons for such experienced by the companies:

Not just this but companies are able to manage and track their hiring better

Having visibility and control of the hiring process has become highly important for companies to manage and improve their hiring process.

Companies that use CutShort are realizing its benefits over a traditional excel sheet based or even an ATS based system.

This is evident when our users find out time to thank us:

#3 Several innovative features make both companies and candidates happy!

Our features are designed to solve significant user problems, not their symptoms.

Some of the specific features that are loved by our users are:

Ability for companies to reach candidates on their WhatsApp

Candidates prefer WhatsApp in 2021 and with CutShort, they get it!

Ability to screen better using conversational questions and audio questions

Auto responder questions help companies gauge the candidates more objectively

Ability to automate their tasks and reminders

AI assistant that recruits while you sleep

#4: The platform is a steal deal due to discounted pricing :)

An AI enabled platform, that attracts thousands of candidates/day and has rich features such as advanced ML models, built-in assessment tests, AI assistant offers huge value to the hiring companies.

However, to give companies an experience of the platform, we have been offering the platform at cost effective prices since last year when COVID-19 impacted the industry. Companies are seeing a great ROI on their investment and we love it.

( That said, to meet our higher operational costs & continued spend on cutting edge R&D, the prices are set to be revised after 31st March 2021. If you haven’t, this is good time to lock on to our special offer right now.)

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