Free hiring tools for recruiters and small teams
By Dev Rishi Khare, founder of Curriculo, ex-Amazon ML engineer
You get hours back when cost per hire, time to hire, job posts, interview kits, offers, and rejections stop eating your afternoon.
Direct answer: Curriculo's free hiring tools help recruiters and small teams calculate cost per hire and time to hire. They also draft job descriptions, interview questions, offer letters, and rejection emails. Each tool handles one task. You can paste the output into your ATS, job board, or inbox. When you need the full pipeline in one place, Curriculo Starter is free forever.
Last updated: October 2026
Write and post the job
Interview consistently
Close the loop
Rejection Email Generator
Send a short, stage-aware note instead of ghosting. Copy a kind subject and body when the decision is done.
Offer Letter Generator
Put role, pay, start date, and location into a warm draft you can review with counsel and send the same day.
Know your numbers
Cost Per Hire Calculator
See what each hire really costs once screening hours sit next to ads, agency fees, and software.
Time to Hire Calculator
Add days by stage, spot the bottleneck, and decide where to cut delay without lowering the bar.
ATS ROI Calculator
Estimate yearly hours and dollars saved when you switch ATS or stop screening the pile by hand.
Hiring Pipeline Assessment
Take a free 10 question hiring pipeline assessment. See where your process stands, from scattered to in control, and get fixes for every weak stage.
Ready-made templates
Prefer a static starting point? Browse startup hiring templates, including the startup job description template, startup offer letter template with equity, interview questions for startup managers, performance review template, and employee handbook template.
Startup job description
A clean JD outline for early-stage roles.
Interview questions for startup managers
A structured question set for manager loops.
Offer letter with equity
Offer language that covers cash and equity.
Startup employee handbook
A starter handbook outline for small teams.
Startup performance review
A lightweight review template you can reuse.
Benchmarks and guides
For context next to the calculators, read time to hire benchmarks for 2026, the State of Founder Hiring 2026, how to screen 100 resumes in under an hour, plus the cost per hire formula and 2026 average and what time to hire means.
Screen 100 resumes in under an hour
A practical framework for screening at speed without missing strong candidates.
Time to hire in 2026
Current benchmarks and where pipelines usually stall.
State of founder hiring 2026
How founder-led teams hire when there is no recruiting function yet.
FAQ
Yes. The calculators and generators on this hub are free to use, with no paid tier inside the tools themselves. Curriculo Starter is also free forever if you want the full ATS next to them.
These tools process your inputs in the browser for a single task. The calculator and generator scripts do not send what you type to Curriculo servers. This site also loads analytics on curriculo.me (including session recording), so treat anything you type as a working draft and avoid pasting sensitive candidate data you are not ready to store.
The Curriculo team. Dev Rishi Khare, founder of Curriculo, ex-Amazon ML engineer, leads the product. You can read more about Dev Rishi Khare and how the hiring tools sit next to the ATS.
Each tool handles one job: a number, a letter, or a question set. What an ATS does is keep the pipeline, inbox, scoring, and interviews in one place so you are not jumping between tabs for every hire.
Yes. Every output is plain text you can paste into a job board, email, spreadsheet, or another ATS. Nothing here locks you into Curriculo to finish the task you came to do today.
When one tool a day becomes a whole hiring process
Curriculo's Starter plan keeps every candidate, email, and interview in one place, free forever, with unlimited jobs, unlimited team members, and 1,000 ranked candidates. There are no per-seat fees on any plan. Pro is $50 with 10,000 ranked candidates. Curriculo ATS scores every candidate from 0 to 100 against your job, with a written AI summary of the fit. Sign in with Google or Microsoft. See free ATS for small teams and see Starter and Pro.