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Before you begin your new career as a human resources manager, there are a few things that you should learn about the job and your potential future. As with any new career, you want to study different aspects of the field, such as salary, experience requirements, and job duties. Human resources continues to grow as…

“If your Idea is good, the money will come” says social entrepreneur Daniel Flynn, the 23-year-old founder of Australian bottled water enterprise ‘Thankyou Water’. He set out to do his part to solve water crisis in developing countries through his start-up. Profits from his business now fund water projects in Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda and India.…

Human Resources is different than recruiting which is different than hiring. If you find yourself at a small company, chances are you may find yourself doing all three jobs, sometimes all in one day. Here are some basic primers on each job and how to manage them when you’re wearing more than one hat in…

Recruiters can quickly get sucked into their own world, meaning that filling the position is all they see at the end of the tunnel. And that’s a great Key Performance Indicator, after all, recruiters depend on getting “butts in seats.” Whether you’re corporate or agency, the mark of a good recruiter is finding the right…

As Trakstar continues to hire the best in tech and recruiting to match our business growth, we needed a bigger and better place to accommodate the size of our team. So, we moved into the SHARED building in San Francisco’s South Market. We’re excited about the change in location, and I don’t think we could…

“Competing for tech talent never gets easier, nor is it a perfect mathematical equation. Instead it’s about understanding your market, knowing what your current and prospective employees are looking for, and doing your best to create the environment that attracts the right workers to your company.” – Stacey Carroll, principal consultant at PayScale Carroll is…

Staff recruitment is all important when it comes to running a franchise. Ensuring that you recruit the right kind of people to work with you can make the difference between a franchise that thrives in the long term, and one that fails to succeed at all. An almost inevitable by-product of a good recruitment policy…

Lylan Masterman is the VP of Product at Maxifier , an ad technology company. In the video below, he talks about hiring based on company culture, and shares a glimpse of the growing demand for tech talent in New York City.

Greg studied Math at Harvard until sophomore year, transferred to MIT for computer science, and then dropped out to work on a Y-Combinator startup! We had an interesting conversation with him about being an early engineer at Stripe , and on growing the product team at one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing companies. There is…

Companies all over the world are searching for potential employees to become a part of their teams. The hiring process can be long and arduous, sometimes taking months before the perfect candidate is found. The longer the hiring process, the more it costs. This can cause the company to go over budget or even result…