Trakstar Hire Blog

If you’re an employer looking to hire on new college graduates this commencement season, you’re in good company. According to a CareerBuilder survey, two-thirds of employers plan to hire from the class of 2016. That’s up two percentage points from last year and the best hiring outlook for new college grads in a decade. While…

I am currently on the last leg of a 33-hour travel day, heading in the direction of home. Three weeks ago I flew 8,797 miles to meet my India-based team members. Going from small-town USA (population 20,000) to Bangalore, India (population 4.3 million) was no small adjustment: acclimating to the 100-degree heat; learning how to…

Studies have shown that nearly two-thirds of fully-employed professionals, while not on the market for a new job, would be open to discussing new opportunities. The thought that two out of every three employees in your workforce might flirt with the idea of exploring new opportunities can be terrifying, especially if you’re a small- to medium-sized…

Ruts, funks, dry spells, slow seasons… whatever you want to call them, they happen to the best of us. Maybe you’re going through a time of organizational change and it’s a tough adjustment. Maybe you lack access to resources you once had due to economic circumstances. Maybe there’s a family health crisis. Maybe the weather…

You run a growing company. New customers come through the door every day. Revenue is rising. To meet the demand, you need more people. When you think about adding people, you think about the challenges of a bigger workforce. You start thinking about building an HR department. Two things come to mind: The words “Human…

A few months ago, I met with a professional acquaintance of mine during happy hour. He’s in HR at a Denver-based technology company, and his organization had just implemented their first applicant tracking system – one that wasn’t Trakstar Hire. I asked him what the primary factor was in the decision to go with their…

A company’s road to success is paved by every new hire. It doesn’t matter the size of the business – a great hire can trigger a host of positive results to both big, international companies as well as to small, local businesses. And the inverse is true of a poor hire. Which type of hire you…

It’s perfectly natural for even the most talented and eligible candidates to feel anxiety going into a job interview. In fact, they may even feel the largest amount of anxiety: The best candidates don’t just want any job, they want your job. But if a candidate feels the pressure, they may not deliver to the best of…

Hiring a new employee can feel like a crapshoot sometimes – and indeed, for many companies, it kind of is. According to Equifax, more than 41 percent of employees who quit their job in the last year did so within the first six months. Another 16 percent quit between six and 11 months on the…

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