Trakstar Hire Blog

Saul Colt is an award-winning marketer who has worked for brands like Ebay, Zipcar and the Just For Laughs comedy festival. He’s doing a webinar with us to discuss PARE, a hiring method used by thousands of organizations which was developed by Trakstar Hire co-founder Raj Sheth. You probably don’t know me but I assure you…

Startups face many challenges. Besides funding, recruitment can be the difference between a premature exit and a multi-million dollar valuation. These resource-strapped organizations understand that the right recruiter is a competitive advantage. Startup recruiters invest themselves in all parts of the business. They scale teams with the same caliber of care and attention that software…

Business software reviews website Capterra recently released its inaugural list of the most user-friendly applicant tracking software. “We’re already specialized in recommending applicant tracking systems for businesses of all sizes, now we’re taking that expertise one step further with direct user-testing,” they wrote in announcing the list. Capterra has 216 applicant tracking systems in its database, and…

Turnover is costly, turnover is expensive. We hear it over and over. We look for solutions: hire smarter, not faster. Onboard new hires to ensure they stay with the company. Some of these strategies work, others do not. To reduce employee turnover, you need executive-level buy-in to mitigate the human losses that translate into losses in production,…

You’ve screened dozens of applicants, vetted a select few through multiple stages of your hiring process, and now you’re down to the final two candidates. First there is Sarah. Interviewing her is like playing a great game of tennis. You serve the question and she smashes it right back with a well-crafted answer. At times your…

Glassdoor is an employment job site that offers a host of features and options for prospective job seekers, as well as employers. This job site has more website traffic compared to other job sites like CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, Indeed, and Monster. Glassdoor allows job seekers to read reviews left by other people about companies, their interview…

Employee onboarding is one of the hottest topics in the HR community, and for good reason. Hiring staff is costly and time consuming. There’s nothing more satisfying to an HR pro than filling that spot and creating a brand spanking new employee file. There’s nothing more frustrating than having to do it all over again,…

Facebook receives somewhere in the ballpark of 250,000 job applications each year. With so many applicants, narrowing down the candidate pool is no easy task. But Mark Zuckerberg’s litmus test is really pretty simple: “I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person.” That’s what he told…

Bureaucracy. It’s a one-word response to many workplace frustrations. The top-down, hierarchical organization dates back to the Industrial Revolution. It was a method of organizing labor to more efficiently execute repeated tasks with highly predictable outcomes. While the workplace has changed significantly from the assembly line era to the information era, bureaucracy has proved resilient. But is…

No one should ever be surprised to be fired. Unless your company has fallen victim to a pirate-worthy hostile takeover, or a 60 Minutes exposé that brings the villagers with torches and pitchforks, getting fired should never come out of the blue for any employee. Every employee who is terminated should know it’s coming and…