Trakstar Hire Blog / Sourcing

In 2002, the Oakland Athletics, the team with the third lowest payroll in Major League Baseball, won as many games as the New York Yankees – the team with the highest payroll. The A’s won more games than they lost in every season from 1999 through 2006. What separated them from the other 29 teams…

You have just been delegated the critical duty of building a new business unit. If I have one piece of advice for you, it is to build a team that has the will and the skill to survive the zombie apocalypse. While the occasional one-man army can wander the post-apocalyptic landscape and survive, most mortals…

The Trakstar team is distributed throughout the globe. Everyone on our U.S.-based team is a remote worker. I’m one of two employees in a hybrid role combining sales and support. Even though I live right outside Chicago, my efforts are concentrated in the Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia). Though I…

Everyone loves Craigslist, right? You can find pretty much anything on there, from an apartment to a pet sitter to the perfect mod couch. And candidates – you can definitely find candidates for your job openings on Craigslist. For a lot of us, Craigslist is probably the most immediate source of candidates. For certain roles,…

Using social media for recruiting purposes goes way beyond LinkedIn. Facebook and Twitter are popular channels, of course. Some companies trying to attract younger employees find that Snapchat is an effective recruitment tool. Taco Bell is doing an awesome job on Pinterest. And then there are the companies recruiting on Instagram. Looking for recruiting inspiration on Instagram…

In the last several weeks, millions of students across the country have returned to school. It’s an exciting time for everybody: There are old friends to catch up with, new friends to make and lots of information to be learned. For college seniors, it’s an especially dynamic time. In addition to anticipating one last year…

Every day, the workforce shifts a single notch. With over 10,000 people retiring every day , recruiters have to think about whom they’re targeting with each job they post. Some shifts in the workforce are easier to account for: the 70% of women 25-34 in the workforce, versus the 90% of men in that age…

If you’ve ever been part of a search committee to fill a position within your organization, you know how difficult it can be to weed through all of the applications you receive. Did you know that on average it takes a recruiter only six seconds to decide on an applicant based on their resume? While…

Organizations from big to small have their own way of doing things. Smaller companies might call a receptionist a “Front Desk Warrior” while a larger company’s job ad might say “Administrative Clerk”. There are dozens of titles for the same position. As recruiters and hiring managers get more creative with their titles, their jobs ads…

Congratulations! You’re thinking about hiring internationally! At some point in a company’s life, they’re going to have to consider hiring someone from outside their own country, and there are many factors to consider. Are you willing (and able) to deal with the different kinds of visas necessary for someone from outside the United States to…