Blog | Recruiting and HR Tips | Page 41

How to Avoid a Recruiting Lawsuit?

13 March 2012

Have you started recruiting for your business? Are you concerned about legal challenges around recruitment? Rocket Lawyer shares six recruiting tips on Business News Daily in the article, ‘ Six Tips for Avoiding a Hiring Lawsuit .’ This article can help you implement best hiring practices and evade employment issues later on. Also, here is…

How to Attract the Best Employees

26 July 2012

Do you ever wonder why you always hear about particular companies scoring the most talented employees in their industry and wonder why your company isn’t doing as well? There are a few key qualities companies who gain the best employees have… They Are Well-Known in Their Industry Chances are, the companies with the best employees…

How the World's Best Employer Brand Uses Social Media, Part II

25 August 2015

This is a continuation of our interview with Alli Soule ( @allisoule ), employee and engagement training specialist with SAS . The data analytics company regularly appears on great places to work lists, not just in the U.S. but internationally. As part of SAS’s corporate social media team, which formed in 2014, Alli counsels employees…

How the World's Best Employer Brand Uses Social Media, Part I

19 August 2015

Talk about a great employer brand. North Carolina-based data analytics software company SAS routinely lands on great places to work rankings, this year marking its 12th top-10 appearance on Fortune ’s Best Companies to Work For in the US list. It retains 97-98 percent of its workforce annually, 20 points higher than the industry average.…

How silicon valley's SeatMe streamlined their hiring

09 January 2013

Staffing a start-up in Silicon Valley isn’t the easiest job in the world, especially when you’re looking for top-notch technical talent and have no human resources function. SeatMe , a technology company in San Francisco that provides restaurants with online management tools had a great concept and a high-growth model, but still struggled with hiring.…

How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Assess Candidates

04 April 2012

A 2011 survey found that 91% of the recruiters visited the social networking profiles of their candidates while screening. 69% of the recruiters rejected some of the candidates based on their findings on social networking profiles. Jennifer King, the HR Analyst at Software Advice explores this phenomenon in her article, ‘ Your Internet Persona: What…

How Trakstar Virtually “Attended” HR Tech!

15 October 2013

Didn’t see us at the HR Technology Conference? That’s because we weren’t there this year, but fortunately we didn’t miss a thing. We’re a small team so attending every conference under the sun isn’t an option for us. Over the years, our team has had to pass on many a great conference; sometimes there just…

How Trakstar Hire Helped Groupon Expand in China –Case Study

11 February 2014

Each organization has unique recruiting and hiring needs and those needs change as the organization grows. For some organizations, growth happens so rapidly that it can become nearly impossible to meet recruiting needs unless change is made to the process. In China, Groupon operated as gaopeng.com and began operations in early 2011. Fabian Kast, the…

How Not to Fall Victim to Search Marketing Zombies

12 April 2012

An entire industry has risen in the last few years around helping businesses to get found in search engines, such as Google. A lot of these search marketing firms and consultants prey on small businesses, blasting them with emails and phone calls, scaring owners by saying things like, “I performed a keyword search for your…

How Jack went up the Hiring Hill

31 May 2011

Does a small business need a hiring management system? And what is a hiring management system anyway? Jack Pellagi owns an advertising firm in Portsmouth, NH. He started with just two people – his wife and himself. In six short months, and three contracts later, he was in the market to hire five people. He…