Reeti Roy

Reeti Roy has learnt much from the cultures she grew up in. A literature aficionado and Shashi Tharoor’s ex-assistant, she has lived in London, Edinburgh, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi.

Founder, Aglet Ink

Reeti Roy has learnt much from the cultures she grew up in. A literature aficionado and Shashi Tharoor’s ex-assistant, she has lived in London, Edinburgh, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi. Her nomadic life taught her various life lessons, she says, such as discipline while researching in London or just meeting tough professional demands in Mumbai and Delhi.

After getting a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Jadavpur University in Kolkata and a social anthropology degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Roy had to spent quite some time hunting for a job in India. “Being an anthropologist was slightly off-beat and somehow my CV got pigeon-holed most of the times,” she says. But she ended up having successful stints as a research associate at Pratham Education Foundation, the Harvard Business School’s India Research Centre and landed editing gigs at Rupa Publications and Harlequin India.

Like her, many others looking for their dream jobs in off-beat sectors were facing rejection because their CVs and cover letters — the first mode of communication between the employer and the applicant — weren’t perfect. Roy decided to set up a start-up to help youngsters create their perfect CVs, cover letter and LinkedIn accounts. She started Aglet Ink in 2014. “Aglet means the metal strip at the tips of shoelaces while Ink is just to play around the word incorporated,” she explains. Roy has set up different packages for her clients based on their requirements and charges a fee in advance, after signing a contract. She clocked a revenue of #1.5 million in FY18.

Over time she has managed to get clients from the UK, Germany, Canada and Italy, and senior professionals from companies such as Deloitte, Accenture, PWC, HSBC, Boston Consulting Group, Discovery Channel India and so on.

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