There is a gap between what young people want from their careers and what they get. We’ve spent months trying to understand this white space, and we've distilled our learnings into a brand new careers podcast from the newsroom of The Ken!The fi

A closing note

Aug 8th, 2023 3m 14s

Thank you for tuning in every week. With this episode, Cost to Company is coming to an end. Do tell us what you liked about the show, what we can do differently, or if you have any fresh ideas in the careers space for us. Write to podcasts@the-

The Great Resignation to Resenteeism. What trends tells us about the changing workplace.

Jul 31st, 2023 44m 53s

Each individual episode of Cost to Company is like a part of the elephant in the hands of a blind person. Only but a piece of a much larger story.In this special 50th episode of Cost to Company, the hosts discuss the sum of trends they have obs

'Influencers' have arrived at the workplace – how to spot them?

Jul 24th, 2023 27m 54s

Company culture (as we know it) is broken. Seventy-seven percent of the global workforce is disengaged and burnt out, says the latest Gallup report. In fact, there's a new term floating around – loud quitting. These are employees who stay in th

600 working mothers told us how they navigate work, home and their careers

Jul 17th, 2023 40m 49s

We released a survey for working mothers. The objective was to build a collective of the wisdom of working mothers. Ask them for their needs. And their hacks. How can families and businesses best enable working mothers? And how can working moth

Why PIPs (Performance Improvement Plans) rarely do what they say

Jul 10th, 2023 33m 22s

Failing to plan is planning to fail. But that's not the case with PIPs. Which, more often than not, is planned to fail anyway. In this episode of Cost to Company, I speak to Sharthok Chakraborty (Co-founder, Klaar; Ex-Cipla) Nimesh Mathur (Inve

How to spot a stable employer in a turbulent economy

Jul 3rd, 2023 25m 47s

Reverse reference checks. Combative questions during interviews. And employees on why it isn’t the employer’s market yet. With layoffs and recession fears, you would imagine employees are settling for less. You would imagine they are taking up

Youngest startup talent doesn’t have deep skills

Jun 26th, 2023 30m 23s

There’s hustle. And then there’s excellence. Startups give their employees abundance of the former, but not as much of the latter. In the long run, this can seriously hurt career prospects. This week, we set out to understand the skills startup

The new 'hot' sectors for tech talent

Jun 19th, 2023 28m 11s

If you ask any tech employee about their dream company to work at, it’s usually a Microsoft or a Google or a cool startup. Nobody aspires to work at a healthcare company or a bank, really. It’s where you end up. Not choose. At least that’s the

Three founders on taking the right risks in your career

Jun 12th, 2023 27m 1s

How do you evaluate the risks you take in your choice of jobs? The size, stage of the company you’re going to work for. The type of roles you choose. How long you wait in a particular role before you make your next move, look for the next jump.

How to get hired in an employer's market

Jun 5th, 2023 24m 35s

The tables have turned.But the mistakes keep spilling over. In this episode, we spoke to Ria Shroff Desai (People and Culture Lead, Blume Ventures); Udayan Walvekar (CEO, GrowthX); Bhakti Dhanak (Associate Vice President - Human Resources, CIIE

Could you have priced yourself out of the job market?

May 29th, 2023 25m 7s

For months and months now, there’s a word that’s been whispered among recruiters, founders, CXOs, and executives who are hiring for key positions in their companies. It’s a word used to describe a cohort of professionals whose salaries are out

The rise and rise of discreet reference checks

May 22nd, 2023 31m 24s

Some call them discreet reference checks, some call them back channel checks, some call them ghost reference checks.They're growing rapidly, and recruiters are leaning on them like never before. In this week’s episode, host Sneha Vakharia takes

'Are you a Lion or a Pig?'

May 16th, 2023 30m 42s

This time last year, companies were giving away eye-popping rewards to retain talent. From BMW bikes to sponsoring vacations, they did it all to lure top talent. Times were good. Talent was scarce. And start-ups and companies were flush with mo

The 'job switch' hike isn't a wise decision anymore

May 8th, 2023 30m 30s

The situation has changed. And the equation has too. If the past two years were all about throwing money to attract top talent, 2023 has seen a general sobering up of appraisals and job switch hikes. In a strange turns of events, some employee

Is your business at war?

May 1st, 2023 38m 8s

This week your host Sneha will take you inside businesses at war, through the voices of those fighting in the trenches. We’ll hear how the same war — the war against inflation, a funding winter and shrinking markets — is being fought differentl

MBAarbarians at the gates

Apr 25th, 2023 26m 26s

MBAs – love them or hate them, but you can’t ignore them. Over the years, they have taken over every business vertical – general management, sales and marketing, growth and strategy, human resources, and even product and technology. Name it, th

Amazon and Meta are wrong about managers.

Apr 17th, 2023 33m 59s

In the last few months alone, Amazon, Meta, and Salesforce announced that they were going to begin the process of flattening their organisations. That they were going to have fewer and fewer hierarchies in their organisations. Fewer hierarchies

Vibe Check: Gen Z on what Gen Z wants

Apr 10th, 2023 30m 9s

You've heard about them. You've worked with them. You've thoughts around them. But have you really heard from them?In this episode, I speak to Kaavyya Kesarwani (Growth & Community, Juno), Sherina Poyyail (Policy professional, Ex: The Quint), B

Here's how to empathise with your manager to get what you want

Apr 3rd, 2023 37m 48s

Here are some messages Cost to Company has received over the past months.“I believe working with GenZ is the toughest thing I do at work. They look at their jobs as a means to the next job. This has dramatically reduced their qualitative outpu

Your new colleague is a part-timer

Mar 27th, 2023 26m 10s

A meaty part-time role may seem like the best of most worlds. Your workload is relatively lesser. You have more time to spare. The money might be decent too. One major downside of the part-time experience though is that you lose out on importan

Special episode: how work and workplaces have changed in 30 weeks.

Mar 20th, 2023 52m 14s

In this special episode of Cost to Company, the tables turn. Snigdha interviews CTC hosts Sneha and Shreevar about how work and workplaces have changed in the last thirty weeks. The short version: they’ve changed dramatically.This episode is th

What's It Like Working For A 'Frugal' Company in 2023?

Mar 13th, 2023 29m 47s

Everybody is cutting costs. Not because they want to. But because they have to. A few months ago, edtech giant Unacademy announced that they were making frugality as one of their ‘core values’ to focus on profitability. But can you really be a

The interns are rising.

Mar 6th, 2023 24m 46s

Internships are booming. Internshala has been reporting jumps of between 30 and 80 percent jumps in internships listed by businesses year on year, depending on which year you look at. The same data says that more and more businesses are offerin

IT Employees Are Finally Unionising. But There's A Problem.

Feb 27th, 2023 33m 59s

Gone are the days when unions were something that only caught the fancy of the blue collar workforce. After a slew of unending layoffs, white collar employees in the IT sector are finally waking up to the bells of unionisation. But it’s not wit