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Your Employer Brand Needs Some Attention

There. It’s out in the open. No foul intentions, but sometimes the truth can sting a little. There are tons of articles out there in cyber space covering employer branding with about million statistics in every one of them. Little did you know, your branding falls under the not-so-flattering category of statistics. One of the…
16 September 2014

Your Career Page Probably Isn’t Good Enough

The company site is often the first impression for candidates. Aside from job listings and ads, this is the first place that candidates will get a glimpse of a company’s culture. Naturally, candidates will head straight for the careers page , and quite often they’re left underwhelmed by the lack of information and overwhelmed with…
30 July 2013

You Filled the Tough-to-Fill Requisition...Now What?

By Armando Llorente, Principal Consultant @HRe-sources, LLC   After weeks (and possibly months) of searching all channels for the “Ideal Candidate (i.e. the “needle in the haystack”), you pat yourself on the back for a job well-done because he/she has accepted your employer’s offer.   The individual is now at your office for Day-One Orientation.…
14 May 2011

WWBD: What Would Buffett Do?

You don’t get to perch yourself on a park bench and eat ice cream with the likes of Paul McCartney by wingin’ it. Most employers don’t start a company because they’re good at doing the books, hiring or leading a team. People start companies because they’re passionate about a product, service or customers. Put simply,…
19 August 2014

Why More Candidates Isn't Better

These days, HR and Recruiting professionals seem to post new jobs everywhere, from niche sites, to job board aggregators to industry-specific landing pages and of course, all the social channels like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. This can put a new or startup hiring team in a quandary. Where to come up with hefty job board…
12 March 2013

Why IT Enabled HR Managers Get High Salaries

HR and Technology have now amalgamated and have created a new genre called as HRIS i.e. Human Resource Information System. HRIS is intersection of human resources and information technology through HR software. The professionals working under this system are known as HRIS Managers, and draw salaries far higher than other non IT enabled HR managers.…
14 January 2015

Why is Stripe.com using Recruiterbox?

Stripe , an incredibly fast growing online payments company, is using Trakstar Hire to manage their hiring. Here is why: “I spent about two months looking through all of the applicant tracking systems out there. All of them were so heavyweight and bloated that we were ready to stick with our hiring spreadsheet forever. But…
03 January 2012

Why HR is the Most Important Job In the Company

Yeah we said it. HR, recruiting, hiring. The people in charge of people are the most important part of any organization . Not only do they bring in the people that make the company who it is and what it is, they also create the culture with which future work “generations” have to adapt. The…
23 April 2013

Why Hiring Fast is Good Candidate Experience

Hiring is pretty much at the center at everything we do here at Trakstar. Since we work with startups and small businesses, we put a great deal of emphasis on hiring FAST. Now, when you say “hiring fast” sometimes people assume that things like quality of hire and candidate experience go out the window but…
14 May 2013

Why did Jack Quit?

Have you been losing good people? Does it seem like you spend as much time recruiting for new hires as you do replacing lost hires? Investing money in a resource is not just about the salary and bonus checks. It is also about the time and effort spent in training. It’s difficult to put a…
21 February 2012