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Interviewing for Culture Fit: Questions for Common Company Values

When following a standard hiring process, you first and foremost make sure candidates have the required skills, experience and education for the role. But after you find a few people who fit the bill, you should then consider if they’ll gel with their team members and the company as a whole. Every interviewer needs to…
11 July 2017

The Best Job Prospecting Sources for Finding Candidates

Instead of going through a mishmash of resumes when hiring, your time can be better spent prospecting. That means exploring online – and to some extent the real world – so you can connect with great candidates and convince them you have their next career opportunity. Job prospecting isn’t easy but the payoff is huge.…
30 June 2017

6 Companies That Excel at Describing the Workplace Culture

The word “culture” is used a lot in the recruiting and HR profession. The people who join your company not only need to have the know-how for their individual role. They also need to have a personality that meshes with their team and the wider company.   Click here to download a free worksheet you can use…
19 June 2017

Bring Sanity to Your Workplace – Talking to SaneBox

For many workplaces, email is the bane of the people that work there. In an effort to bring sanity and calm to the world of the inbox, our friends over at SaneBox have created a revolutionary approach to managing email. They believe email can be a powerful tool, rather than a necessary burden, and that…
12 June 2017

8 Great Recruiting Videos and How They Help With Employer Branding

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 It has been one of our most popular posts but has slowly become outdated.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…
06 June 2017

Online Recruitment Training Education and Courses for Recruiting Professionals Seeking Career Growth

Most recruiters understand the importance of ongoing education and professional development. You know the best candidates are always refining their craft so you should strive to do the same. Fortunately, it has never been easier to access educational content. There are numerous online schools and courses recruiting professionals like you can take advantage of to…
23 May 2017

Introducing RecruiterJobs.co: Connecting Companies with Talented Recruiting Professionals

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…
08 May 2017

Key Findings From 750,000+ Tech Job Listings

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…
17 April 2017

Operational & Strategic Hiring Reports: Provide Your Colleagues Insight into Hiring

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…
31 March 2017

Data-Driven Recruiting: Getting Started with the Help of a Spreadsheet

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…
23 March 2017