Staffing a restaurant is challenging, expensive, and time-consuming. It often happens between shifts and always in a rush. And it affects all types of restaurants, big and small, from cafes to fast food to family-style, food trucks, and bar & grill establishments. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Deploying Wirkn benefits hourly restaurant recruiting by providing a comprehensive solution that streamlines the hiring process. Wirkn is specifically designed to meet the restaurant industry’s needs and provides functionality tailored to both front and back-of-the-house operations. By leveraging Wirkn’s technology, restaurants save time and resources while also attracting and hiring top talent.
One of the key benefits of using Wirkn for hourly recruiting is its ability to provide a mobile-first hiring experience. With most job seekers using their mobile devices to search and apply for jobs, a mobile-friendly application process is a de facto standard. Wirkn allows candidates to apply for jobs easily, provide video introductions, and even schedule interviews from their smartphones. This amplifies the candidate experience and ensures that restaurants don’t miss out on potential hires who may not have access to a computer.
In addition, Wirkn offers features such as smart filtering that help restaurants quickly identify the best candidates for the job. By leveraging app-based capabilities, restaurants reduce the time and resources required to screen and interview candidates, allowing them to fill open positions more quickly. Wirkn also offers a centralized dashboard that allows restaurant managers to track candidate progress and communicate with candidates throughout the hiring process.
Candidate sourcing
Tap into Wirkn’s community of + hourly retail job seekers. Leverage Wirkn’s proprietary algorithms to increase reach and attract candidate traffic from Google, job boards, social media, and your banner or restaurant website. Enable restaurants to promote openings through their existing networks, deploy QR codes to grab foot traffic, and convert applicants with a frictionless hiring experience for all parties.
Wirkn provides a proven channel that operates at the ground level to improve candidate yield, streamline recruitment, and provide an on-brand experience to all locations, whether you operate just one or hundreds, ultimately reversing labor challenges. Maximize your digital real estate: Use your restaurant career page and signage as a magnet for staff.
Wirkn makes restaurant hiring effortless
- Provide candidates with a compelling, digital-first, mobile-first experience that drives conversions
- Leverage video introductions to better triage high volumes of candidates
- Give Hiring Managers smart candidate filtering by availability, location, skills, and access to unified messaging & texting
Most importantly, our hyperlocal model works: We’ve powered 3MM+ applications and counting.
Benefits
Restaurant operators, big and small, benefit from deploying Wirkn in many ways:
- Targeted recruitment: A specialized job application process helps restaurant operators target candidates with the specific skills and experience needed for front and back-of-the-house roles, leading to more successful hires and improved overall restaurant performance.
- Improved candidate experience: Providing candidates with a smoother, more streamlined application process leads to a better, more differentiated candidate experience. This helps to attract top candidates and improves the restaurant’s reputation as an employer.
- Time and cost savings: A specialized job application process saves time and money by streamlining the hiring process, which reduces the need for manual review and coordination.
- Increase staff retention: Wirkn helps to identify candidates who are a good fit for the restaurant’s culture and values. This typically leads to increased employee satisfaction, lower turnover rates, and improved retention.
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