Trakstar Hire Blog / Hiring Strategy

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…

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…

An organization is bound to have established more than one goal and a mission statement. Branding moulds all aspects of an organization–such as culture, raison d’etre, values, mission and more–into a cohesive image. A brand image is the simplest definition of an organization which leads to efficient recruitment. For an employer, attracting and retaining talent…

Hiring right is easier said than done. Everyone has their two cents about sourcing, screening and hiring, but what ends up mattering are the tried and true methods. Warren Buffett has been known for his no nonsense, down to earth business style, so it’s no surprise that the three main qualities Buffett looks for are…

Sonny Newman is the President of EE Technologies , a premier contract manufacturing partner that provides global electronics manufacturing services. Here are his insights on recruiting key people: The most important attributes to my first key leadership hires when I started my company in 2000 were commitment, trustworthiness, and job knowledge. It was important to…

One of the biggest challenges recruiters face today is the fact that some of the best candidates already have a job. When these candidates are open to considering a new job but aren’t motivated enough to apply for one, they’re called “passive candidates.” They’re 25 percent more likely to stay at a company long-term, and…

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…

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.

Infusionsoft is an organization with an interesting approach to team building. A striking example is their “HR department,” which is very creatively designed around maintaining and enhancing their culture, rather than just fill traditional roles like payroll and recruiting. What does this mean? We spoke to Lauren Tassiello, who is the “Talent Tractor Beam Operator”…