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Hiring & retention software for fitness professionals

Find the right trainers and gym employees for your health & fitness business with software that helps you build your culture, hire and retain your team, and grow your revenue.

We Know Your Business

Find Fitness Instructors & Personal Trainers Who Stick Around

We understand that it’s hard to find and retain trustworthy team members for your fitness business. With seasonal hiring patterns and unique specializations, it can feel like you’re always looking for your next employee.

We analyzed benchmark data from the health & fitness industry to better understand how you should hire and retain your team.

Here’s how to get the right people to stick around:

Focus your efforts on marketing employment opportunities to your existing club members
Create an employee referral program to attract the most talented fitness instructors using your existing network
Contact applicants as soon as possible with automated interview scheduling and text recruiting to speed up the hiring process

Stand Out to Candidates with a Custom Careers Page

Show what makes your business different with a page that attracts quality applicants.

Fun fact: Candidates applying from company pages are 4x more likely to become hires than those who come from job boards.

Helping Health & Fitness Franchises Build Winning Teams

Customer Stories

“Instead of waiting three or four days just to schedule interviews, the entire hiring process is now done in three days. Autopilot saves me

Lourdes Burnette

HR/Recruiter, NCG Hospitality

“Our team is always updating our processes and templates to improve applicant engagement and reduce interview ‘no shows.’ Our best efforts could not provide

Jamie Sutton

ServiceMaster

“Utilizing the Autopilot feature has changed the game for our company! It has streamlined our hiring process, enabling us to effectively and efficiently schedule

Kesia Chisholm

Recruiting Coordinator, Heyday

“CareerPlug has transformed the way we hire. It’s a one-stop shop for us to post to multiple job boards, saving us time and money.

John Dieu

Director of Operations & Finance, Midas

“CareerPlug has transformed the way we hire. It’s a one-stop shop for us to post to multiple job boards, saving us time and money.

John Dieu

Director of Operations & Finance, Midas

“Utilizing the Autopilot feature has changed the game for our company! It has streamlined our hiring process, enabling us to effectively and efficiently schedule

Kesia Chisholm

Recruiting Coordinator, Heyday

“Our team is always updating our processes and templates to improve applicant engagement and reduce interview ‘no shows.’ Our best efforts could not provide

Jamie Sutton

ServiceMaster

“Instead of waiting three or four days just to schedule interviews, the entire hiring process is now done in three days. Autopilot saves me

Lourdes Burnette

HR/Recruiter, NCG Hospitality

“Utilizing the Autopilot feature has changed the game for our company! It has streamlined our hiring process, enabling us to effectively and efficiently schedule

Kesia Chisholm

Recruiting Coordinator, Heyday

“CareerPlug has helped our staffing woes by bringing in new applicants across all mediums. I enjoy using CareerPlug’s user interface, and customizing the company’s

Ryan Bowen

Practice Manager, Idaho Hand Institute

“CareerPlug gave us applicants that were already screened. We noticed that the right applicants started showing up to interviews. It’s nice to spend your

Austin Casey

Founder and CEO, BidClips

In one month, Rally Deleon had over 325 applicants. CareerPlug helps him cast a 2-3x larger net when hiring for Chick-fil-A North Hills.

Rally Deleon

VP of Sales

“CareerPlug has allowed our hiring team to streamline our hiring process across multiple platforms into a single platform. This allows us to post to

Lindsay LeBlanc

Franchisee

“Careerplug’s Autopilot features cut my scheduling time in half. No more back and forth trying to figure out what time works best. Also, all

Annet Asio-Pasquali

Administrator

“CareerPlug has saved our organization so much time with hiring process! It’s simple to use, makes the hiring process seamless, and it’s all in

Courtney Wyatt

General Manager

“Since using CareerPlug, our expense for recruiting went down by about $3,000 and I think it’ll keep going down. We’ve really seen our expense

Gabby Hoing

CEO and Co-Founder of Kore Cares

“CareerPlug had job descriptions for each position I was hiring for. I was able to make a few edits and post them within 5

Jay Hanigan

Managing Member

“CareerPlug is just absolutely phenomenal. I was spending about $495 a month on a major job board. In the first month of having CareerPlug

Steve Schaut

Big O Tires Franchisee

85% of the team at Handyman Connection has been sourced through CareerPlug. See how Joe Cox, Owner & General Manager, saved time and money

Joe Cox

Owner and General Manager

Hourly applicants increased by 400% after Jamie Starner, Talent Acquisition Manager for Kona Grill, started using CareerPlug.

Jamie Starner

Talent Acquisition Manager

“Recruiting and building a team that embraces our brand values and lives them daily is my top priority. […] Our collaboration with CareerPlug has

Cat Santangelo

Director of Operations, Nothing Bundt Cakes

“Using texting through the CareerPlug application has really helped our office connect with potential applicants. Quicker connections means getting your foot in the door

Dave Christy

State Farm

“Texting has dramatically improved my response rate – I get through to more candidates and work them through our process quicker than ever before.

Sean Morton

State Farm

“CareerPlug allows me to watch, add, and create jobs for all four stores from one account. In addition, I have set all the managers

Ty Sorenson

General Manager

“CareerPlug has saved our organization so much time with hiring process! It’s simple to use, makes the hiring process seamless, and it’s all in

Courtney Wyatt

General Manager, Orangetheory

“Our partnership with CareerPlug has been vital to our success in 2021 and 2022. In a challenging time with finding quality candidates our organization

Matt Nevala

VP Sales & Operations

“CareerPlug has streamlined our recruiting process. We upload our jobs in one place and CareerPlug does the hard work by launching that post across

Samuel Dietz

Director of Operations

“CareerPlug has given our centers a powerful hiring tool to help build out their teams. Staffing is always a challenge in our industry and

Andy Hardy

Marketing Manager, Discovery Point Franchising

“I struggled to find new hires posting directly on other recruiting sites. It wasn’t until I partnered with CareerPlug that I began to experience

Tami Allen

Franchisee

“Our team is always updating our processes and templates to improve applicant engagement and reduce interview ‘no shows.’ Our best efforts could not provide

Jamie Sutton

ServiceMaster

See how franchise owner Gordy Pease received more applicants in his first two weeks with CareerPlug than he did the previous year.

Gordy Pease

Franchise Owner

“Prior to using CareerPlug, my turnover rate was very high, around 75%. Trying to find the right people was a real challenge. […] Now

April Williams

The Grounds Guys of Cedar Creek Lake

See how Kara Gobel, a franchise owner, started receiving more quality applicants, making better hires, and growing her team.

Kara Gobel

Franchise Owner

“CareerPlug has been an excellent tool in helping us find quality employees and grow our business. The ability to manage multiple jobs and all

Quent Blodgett

Owner

“Instead of waiting three or four days just to schedule interviews, the entire hiring process is now done in three days. Autopilot saves me

Lourdes Burnette

HR/Recruiter, NCG Hospitality

See how Bill Moseley, a Regional Recruiter for a Big O Tires franchisee, solved his hiring challenges with an applicant tracking system.

Bill Moseley

Franchise Owner

“The prescreen questions and scores has substantially reduced the time it takes my managers to go through resumes, call candidates and make job offers!”

Anna Ortize

HR Manager

“CareerPlug drastically simplified and sped up my hiring processes by pre-scoring applicants and organizing them into easy to navigate pipelines. The communication track has

Jaxon Owens

F45 Training

“CareerPlug has transformed the way we hire. It’s a one-stop shop for us to post to multiple job boards, saving us time and money.

John Dieu

Director of Operations & Finance, Midas

A franchisee group that owns 19 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts locations reduced time to hire and increased applicant flow.

Ana Ortiz

Director of Sales and Human Resources

“The biggest difference I experienced using CareerPlug is the quality of the candidates. Far too often in the past with other hiring platforms I

Lee Belanger

Insurance Agent

Learn how franchise owner Ashley Parsons reduced job posting costs by over 800%, increased her applicant flow by 400%, and increased retention by 6x.

Ashley Parsons

Franchise Owner

“CareerPlug has helped our owners streamline their hiring process, and increase exposure in the marketplace. Many of our owners struggled to post enough jobs

Kayla Bramlet

Director of Training

“My business has grown significantly as a result of using CareerPlug. Since using their hiring software, I have been able to grow my team

Kara Gobel

Franchise Owner

“CareerPlug has helped our owners streamline their hiring process, and increase exposure in the marketplace. Many of our owners struggled to post enough jobs

Kayla Bramlet

Director of Training

“Many of the dealers I work with were struggling recruiting technicians and installers until BrandSource partnered with CareerPlug. CareerPlug has simplified the recruitment and

Paul MacDonald

Service Lead, BrandSource

“CareerPlug has been my reliable platform to find quality candidates for my job postings. I have been able to fill multiple openings within my

Deji Ayoola

Franchise Owner, Snapology

See how Mark Eckels, a franchise owner, standardized their hiring process while efficiently educating all of their owners and managers.

Mark Eckels

Franchise Owner

“In about a week’s time, we have over 75 quality applicants apply to work with our company. CareerPlug makes it easy and efficient to

Edward Rankin

Owner

Chad Wester reduced turnover by 25% after implementing CareerPlug at Wireless Advantage, a Verizon Wireless retailer.

Chad Wester

Director of Sales and Human Resources

“CareerPlug’s customer service goes above and beyond. They are so helpful! I reached out in regard to an issue with a former user. Candace

Ashley Jordan

“Whomever came up with Autopilot deserves a RAISE! It has become a game changer, we went from around 10-20% of applicants doing phone interviews

Jared Amram

Operations Coordinator

“CareerPlug helped me hire all of my staff. I do almost no recruiting efforts outside of CareerPlug. CareerPlug makes it easy for me to

Joel Worthington

Owner

“CareerPlug’s ability to post to major job boards with one-click has significantly boosted my applicant flow. I received more applicants within my first two

Gordy Pease

Franchise Owner

“I would encourage any franchise owner to take a look at CareerPlug because it’s a tool you can use to find good people. Within

Bill Moseley

Regional Recruiter, Big O Tires

“CareerPlug is an amazing platform that has simplified our recruiting & onboarding process. I love how we post our open positions in one convenient

Leana White

Business Manager

“We started using CareerPlug at the suggestion of our franchise operations group. While we have been affected by the labor problems that all businesses

Cy Cole

Franchise Owner

“One of the most important things to me as a business owner in home care is recruiting, and I use CareerPlug to get the

Howard Stein

President, Home Helpers Home Care

“CareerPlug has recruiting and onboarding tools that we utilize. For recruiting, it’s great being able to create messaging templates in advance so it takes

Shayla Ricci

Manager

“Our partnership with CareerPlug has been one of the most impactful changes we have made within our organization. Our applicant flow has increased tenfold

Nick Sorgan

General Manager

“I had [CareerPlug Hiring Expert] Diane on a scheduled call to help with our ad/questions. She helped determine what questions would help with some

Savannha Sumner

Office Administrator

See how Chad Benedict, VP of Sales, grew his staff at six locations across Houston, receiving more applicants during the first two weeks with

Chad Benedict

VP of Sales

“CareerPlug has dramatically reduced the amount of time required to review applicants, schedule interviews, and hire new team members.”

Casey Del Prete

General Manager, Swimming Safari Swim School

“CareerPlug gave us applicants that were already screened. We noticed that the right applicants started showing up to interviews. It’s nice to spend your

Gio Tan

Web Dev

See how Sandy Vitti received 5x more qualified applicants in just one month with CareerPlug’s hiring and retention software.

Sandy Vitti

VP of Sales

“The CareerPlug representative took the time to provide SO MANY helpful tips on setting up a great job description, providing lot of details and

Angie Valleroy

Owner

“In about a week’s time, we have over 75 quality applicants apply to work with our company. CareerPlug makes it easy and efficient to

Edward Rankin

Owner

“CareerPlug is an amazing platform that has simplified our recruiting & onboarding process. I love how we post our open positions in one convenient

Leana White

Business Manager

“I would encourage any franchise owner to take a look at CareerPlug because it’s a tool you can use to find good people. Within

Bill Moseley

Regional Recruiter, Big O Tires

See how Sandy Vitti received 5x more qualified applicants in just one month with CareerPlug’s hiring and retention software.

Sandy Vitti

VP of Sales

“CareerPlug helped me hire all of my staff. I do almost no recruiting efforts outside of CareerPlug. CareerPlug makes it easy for me to

Joel Worthington

Owner

“CareerPlug’s ability to post to major job boards with one-click has significantly boosted my applicant flow. I received more applicants within my first two

Gordy Pease

Franchise Owner

“CareerPlug has allowed our hiring team to streamline our hiring process across multiple platforms into a single platform. This allows us to post to

Lindsay LeBlanc

Franchisee

“CareerPlug has given our centers a powerful hiring tool to help build out their teams. Staffing is always a challenge in our industry and

Andy Hardy

Marketing Manager, Discovery Point Franchising

Learn how franchise owner Ashley Parsons reduced job posting costs by over 800%, increased her applicant flow by 400%, and increased retention by 6x.

Ashley Parsons

Franchise Owner

“CareerPlug drastically simplified and sped up my hiring processes by pre-scoring applicants and organizing them into easy to navigate pipelines. The communication track has

Jaxon Owens

F45 Training

“My business has grown significantly as a result of using CareerPlug. Since using their hiring software, I have been able to grow my team

Kara Gobel

Franchise Owner

“CareerPlug allows me to watch, add, and create jobs for all four stores from one account. In addition, I have set all the managers

Ty Sorenson

General Manager

“CareerPlug has helped our owners streamline their hiring process, and increase exposure in the marketplace. Many of our owners struggled to post enough jobs

Kayla Bramlet

Director of Training

A franchisee group that owns 19 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts locations reduced time to hire and increased applicant flow.

Ana Ortiz

Director of Sales and Human Resources

“Our partnership with CareerPlug has been vital to our success in 2021 and 2022. In a challenging time with finding quality candidates our organization

Matt Nevala

VP Sales & Operations

“CareerPlug’s customer service goes above and beyond. They are so helpful! I reached out in regard to an issue with a former user. Candace

Ashley Jordan

“CareerPlug has saved our organization so much time with hiring process! It’s simple to use, makes the hiring process seamless, and it’s all in

Courtney Wyatt

General Manager

“I had [CareerPlug Hiring Expert] Diane on a scheduled call to help with our ad/questions. She helped determine what questions would help with some

Savannha Sumner

Office Administrator

“CareerPlug has dramatically reduced the amount of time required to review applicants, schedule interviews, and hire new team members.”

Casey Del Prete

General Manager, Swimming Safari Swim School

“Careerplug’s Autopilot features cut my scheduling time in half. No more back and forth trying to figure out what time works best. Also, all

Annet Asio-Pasquali

Administrator

“Utilizing the Autopilot feature has changed the game for our company! It has streamlined our hiring process, enabling us to effectively and efficiently schedule

Kesia Chisholm

Recruiting Coordinator, Heyday

“Instead of waiting three or four days just to schedule interviews, the entire hiring process is now done in three days. Autopilot saves me

Lourdes Burnette

HR/Recruiter, NCG Hospitality

“One of the most important things to me as a business owner in home care is recruiting, and I use CareerPlug to get the

Howard Stein

President, Home Helpers Home Care

Chad Wester reduced turnover by 25% after implementing CareerPlug at Wireless Advantage, a Verizon Wireless retailer.

Chad Wester

Director of Sales and Human Resources

“Using texting through the CareerPlug application has really helped our office connect with potential applicants. Quicker connections means getting your foot in the door

Dave Christy

State Farm

“The CareerPlug representative took the time to provide SO MANY helpful tips on setting up a great job description, providing lot of details and

Angie Valleroy

Owner

“Whomever came up with Autopilot deserves a RAISE! It has become a game changer, we went from around 10-20% of applicants doing phone interviews

Jared Amram

Operations Coordinator

Hourly applicants increased by 400% after Jamie Starner, Talent Acquisition Manager for Kona Grill, started using CareerPlug.

Jamie Starner

Talent Acquisition Manager

See how Kara Gobel, a franchise owner, started receiving more quality applicants, making better hires, and growing her team.

Kara Gobel

Franchise Owner

“Many of the dealers I work with were struggling recruiting technicians and installers until BrandSource partnered with CareerPlug. CareerPlug has simplified the recruitment and

Paul MacDonald

Service Lead, BrandSource

“CareerPlug has helped our staffing woes by bringing in new applicants across all mediums. I enjoy using CareerPlug’s user interface, and customizing the company’s

Ryan Bowen

Practice Manager, Idaho Hand Institute

“CareerPlug has been an excellent tool in helping us find quality employees and grow our business. The ability to manage multiple jobs and all

Quent Blodgett

Owner

In one month, Rally Deleon had over 325 applicants. CareerPlug helps him cast a 2-3x larger net when hiring for Chick-fil-A North Hills.

Rally Deleon

VP of Sales

“CareerPlug is just absolutely phenomenal. I was spending about $495 a month on a major job board. In the first month of having CareerPlug

Steve Schaut

Big O Tires Franchisee

“CareerPlug gave us applicants that were already screened. We noticed that the right applicants started showing up to interviews. It’s nice to spend your

Gio Tan

Web Dev

“The prescreen questions and scores has substantially reduced the time it takes my managers to go through resumes, call candidates and make job offers!”

Anna Ortize

HR Manager

“CareerPlug has saved our organization so much time with hiring process! It’s simple to use, makes the hiring process seamless, and it’s all in

Courtney Wyatt

General Manager, Orangetheory

85% of the team at Handyman Connection has been sourced through CareerPlug. See how Joe Cox, Owner & General Manager, saved time and money

Joe Cox

Owner and General Manager

See how Chad Benedict, VP of Sales, grew his staff at six locations across Houston, receiving more applicants during the first two weeks with

Chad Benedict

VP of Sales

“CareerPlug gave us applicants that were already screened. We noticed that the right applicants started showing up to interviews. It’s nice to spend your

Austin Casey

Founder and CEO, BidClips

“The biggest difference I experienced using CareerPlug is the quality of the candidates. Far too often in the past with other hiring platforms I

Lee Belanger

Insurance Agent

“Prior to using CareerPlug, my turnover rate was very high, around 75%. Trying to find the right people was a real challenge. […] Now

April Williams

The Grounds Guys of Cedar Creek Lake

“CareerPlug has streamlined our recruiting process. We upload our jobs in one place and CareerPlug does the hard work by launching that post across

Samuel Dietz

Director of Operations

“CareerPlug has recruiting and onboarding tools that we utilize. For recruiting, it’s great being able to create messaging templates in advance so it takes

Shayla Ricci

Manager

“CareerPlug has transformed the way we hire. It’s a one-stop shop for us to post to multiple job boards, saving us time and money.

John Dieu

Director of Operations & Finance, Midas

See how Bill Moseley, a Regional Recruiter for a Big O Tires franchisee, solved his hiring challenges with an applicant tracking system.

Bill Moseley

Franchise Owner

“CareerPlug has helped our owners streamline their hiring process, and increase exposure in the marketplace. Many of our owners struggled to post enough jobs

Kayla Bramlet

Director of Training

“Since using CareerPlug, our expense for recruiting went down by about $3,000 and I think it’ll keep going down. We’ve really seen our expense

Gabby Hoing

CEO and Co-Founder of Kore Cares

“Our partnership with CareerPlug has been one of the most impactful changes we have made within our organization. Our applicant flow has increased tenfold

Nick Sorgan

General Manager

“CareerPlug has been my reliable platform to find quality candidates for my job postings. I have been able to fill multiple openings within my

Deji Ayoola

Franchise Owner, Snapology

See how Mark Eckels, a franchise owner, standardized their hiring process while efficiently educating all of their owners and managers.

Mark Eckels

Franchise Owner

See how franchise owner Gordy Pease received more applicants in his first two weeks with CareerPlug than he did the previous year.

Gordy Pease

Franchise Owner

“We started using CareerPlug at the suggestion of our franchise operations group. While we have been affected by the labor problems that all businesses

Cy Cole

Franchise Owner

“Recruiting and building a team that embraces our brand values and lives them daily is my top priority. […] Our collaboration with CareerPlug has

Cat Santangelo

Director of Operations, Nothing Bundt Cakes

“Our team is always updating our processes and templates to improve applicant engagement and reduce interview ‘no shows.’ Our best efforts could not provide

Jamie Sutton

ServiceMaster

“Texting has dramatically improved my response rate – I get through to more candidates and work them through our process quicker than ever before.

Sean Morton

State Farm

“I struggled to find new hires posting directly on other recruiting sites. It wasn’t until I partnered with CareerPlug that I began to experience

Tami Allen

Franchisee

“CareerPlug had job descriptions for each position I was hiring for. I was able to make a few edits and post them within 5

Jay Hanigan

Managing Member

See how Chad Benedict, VP of Sales, grew his staff at six locations across Houston, receiving more applicants during the first two weeks with

See how Sandy Vitti received 5x more qualified applicants in just one month with CareerPlug’s hiring and retention software.

Free Job Posting Templates

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