Trakstar Hire Blog / Hiring Software & Tools

Successful hiring starts with getting your job openings in front of the right candidates. And Facebook is where many people around the world spend a significant amount of their online time. While Facebook hasn’t traditionally been used for hiring, the site now allows US and Canadian companies to post job openings and accept applicants. The…

A solid Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is the hub for a successful hiring process. It connects with all your hiring sources so applicants automatically flow into the solution. It also allows hiring team members to easily accept interview requests and provide feedback on the candidates they meet with. However, those are only the primary features…

Filling your open roles in the fewest number of days possible ensures your business operations continue to run as usual and your recruiting team doesn’t fall behind on its long-term hiring plan. If your company gets a high volume of applicants, you likely know how tedious it can be to review them all. You have…

Like anything in life, hiring success depends on planning and preparation. Recruiters and talent acquisition professionals have to use the right tools and resources in order to find and evaluate great candidates who can help the company achieve its goals. This article outlines 25 tools, documents and resources every recruiting team should have in their…

LinkedIn has more than 500 million users, and they’re all on the site for business purposes. While not everyone is looking for career advancement when they visit the social networking site, you’ll have better luck finding interested candidates here rather than a general audience site like Facebook. However, you’re competing with every other recruiter who…

A few years ago, we published a blog post titled “5 Great Recruitment Videos on YouTube and Why They Work.” It has been one of our most popular posts but has slowly become outdated. Recruiting videos are now common and some great ones have shown up online since that article went live. It’s time for…

At Trakstar, we’re often asked by companies if we can refer talented recruiting professionals. We’ve heard the call and created a niche community that connects companies with recruiters looking for new opportunities. We’re excited to announce RecruiterJobs.co. Here’s how it works: Recruiting professionals sign up via LinkedIn and update their profile preferences. Our team reviews…

The technology job market is constantly evolving. Hence, it is critical for recruiters and hiring managers to keep tabs on the employment landscape and trends. Job boards and aggregators are great sources of labor market data as the metadata from jobs posted by various companies can be analyzed to generate insights. In this study, we…

In most organizations, recruiters lead the hiring efforts with support or input from a number of other people in the company. The hiring team, or department in need of a new person, defines role requirements and interviews and evaluates the top candidates. They want to find and hire the best person for the job and…

Image courtesy of craigmoulding Hiring is one of the biggest challenges companies face. Finding the right person for a specific role is hard enough. But efficiently moving through each stage in the hiring process is arguably more difficult. You have to attract candidates from multiple sources, review each one, schedule interviews that accommodate everyone’s schedule, consistently…