Trakstar Hire Blog / Hiring Software & Tools

If a prospective candidate has landed on your careers page, congratulations: You’ve won 90 percent of the battle. More so than candidates who simply happen upon your openings through a job board or search engine, the candidates who take the time to visit your careers page aren’t just interested in the role, but in the company. The last…

Large or small, companies are beginning to see the benefits of HR technology. A survey found that when it comes to companies of more than 1000 employees, 53 percent planned to invest in software for their HR and recruiting teams this year. Among companies with fewer than 100 employees, the number jumps to 60 percent.…

Big data. The subject is inescapable and it’s changing the operations of almost every industry, from hospitality to healthcare to yes, HR. It’s why data scientist–the person that collects, organizes, analyzes and activates big data–is one of the hottest jobs of the moment. (Maybe you’re even recruiting for one right now!) Continuing advances in HR technology mean that…

Raj Sheth was a recent guest on the TechnologyAdvice Expert Interview Series to share his insight on the intersection of sales, marketing and technology. The series, which is hosted by TechnologyAdvice’s Josh Bland, explores a variety of business and technology landscapes through conversations with industry leaders. The subject of this episode is recruiting technology trends. Below are…

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…

“I have submitted many videos on YouTube, but there are hardly any views on it!” Do you often complain this way about the videos you have submitted on YouTube? Are you wondering if you wasted your time and money creating them as you do not see any results? If yes, this blog post is for…

Today, every business has a blog. Not all of them are successful because they start blogging without understanding the basics. These are simple things but extremely important to make your blog successful. Neil Patel, the co-founder of KISSmetrics explains what you should not do on your blog in his article, ’12 things that will kill…

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…

For the past decade the it word has been “social media.” Our worlds are alight with posts, tweets, and check-ins, all of which provide an incredible amount of insight into who we are as individuals. By extension, such sites also offer opportunities with which to better scan and select new hires for your company. Yet…

Collaboration is the key to the success of any business. Small businesses, in particular, stand to benefit from improved collaboration, as this can lead to better communication and more productivity. Such improvements require changes in some of your business’ operations, and Google has tools that will help make these changes easy to implement. Google’s cloud…