At CareerPlug, we want to help businesses hire more superstars. We also want to make hiring easier, which in many cases involves saving our clients valuable time. In line with these values, we’re rolling out text recruiting, a new feature that sets us apart from other recruiting softwares. Already a CareerPlug Client? Enable Text Recruiting
Hiring Software Case Study – Kona Grill
In the competitive restaurant industry, having enough staff can make or break success. Even for restaurants with a popular menu and high potential like our client Kona Grill, a lack of management and hourly employees can slow growth. Systems like CareerPlug’s hiring software can help put your business back on track and even help you
Don’t Miss Your Next Great Hire
Imagine this scenario: your next great hire is within the list of applicants in your applicant tracking system. But you have so many applicants to review that you’re overwhelmed, and you’ve dropped the ball on contacting candidates within days after they apply. You finally get a few minutes to call a candidate for a first
3 Sources of Great Hires You’re Not Using
You’ve done your due diligence and posted your job to all the major job boards, like Indeed and Glassdoor, but you’re not getting the quality — or quantity — of applicants you want. What gives? If you’re not finding the right candidate or you’ve exhausted your current applicant pool, it might be time to take
Analysis: 46 Restaurant’s Careers Pages
14 minutes and 21 seconds, that’s the average time it takes to finish a job application for a restaurant chain. Restaurants are a fast-moving business, and if your application time doesn’t stack up to your competitors, you’ll lose the best candidates. We analyzed the time it takes to complete a job application for 46 different
How to use the DACUM Method
to Organize Your Training Curriculum
You know you need to train your employees but you’re worried you won’t capture every small detail about what it takes to do their job to the best of their ability. With so much material to cover, where do you start? Enter The DACUM Method DACUM—an acronym for “Developing a Curriculum.” First invented at Ohio
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6 Ways to Improve the Content on your Careers Page
Franchises, restaurants and businesses of all shapes and sizes are constantly in sales mode- either selling their product to customers, their business idea to investors, or their employment opportunities to candidates. These days, hiring has become a two-way street. Just as employers evaluate candidates, those same candidates are sizing up potential employers. And some of
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The Franchisee Journey
The Importance of People at Each Step In February, I attended the International Franchise Association (IFA) conference in Phoenix. One of the most memorable sessions that I attended was the Franchise Relations Summit. Greg Nathan hosted the session along with a group of executives and franchisees. The framework for the session intrigued me: it followed the
Who’s On Your Bus?
This might be the most important question you ask yourself this year. There are three essential components of a successful business: strategy, people, and process. Someone recently asked me which one was most important. My mind immediately went to Jim Collins. Here’s how he put it in Good to Great: “The executives who ignited the
What’s Your Talent GPA?
Earlier this year, I learned about a retail chain and the insights they gained from a unique way of measuring the training their team members had received. They developed a calculation for a Store IQ based on the number of cumulative hours that all team members from that store had spent in training. Unsurprisingly, the