How Reach’s ATS Software is Transforming Recruitment in the Food and Catering Industry
If you’re struggling to recruit and retain top talent, there’s a high probability you’re recruiting for the food and catering industry. This fast paced, high turnover environment requires a particular set of recruiter skills and some top-flight tools to go with them.
From pastry chefs to drivers, catering managers to waiting staff, the food and catering industry hires a wide range of employees, sometimes at scale, sometimes seasonally, and often urgently. And that’s where using an ATS (applicant tracking system) can be a game changer.
Reach’s ATS Recruitment Software is flexible, built to fit your workflows, and will adapt to your ever-changing hiring needs. Reach automates job postings, streamlines the whole application process and efficiently screens candidates. It reduces time to hire in an industry that requires fast solutions to role vacancies.
Want to find out more? Of course you do! Here’s how our flexible ATS is currently supporting clients in your industry.
Can an efficient ATS process contribute to improved hiring outcomes in the food and catering industry?
In short, it absolutely can. A flexible and efficient ATS will streamline your workflows and enhance your candidate journey, speeding up your time to hire and preventing drop off.
Whether you’re looking for waiting staff or warehouse operatives, bar staff or kitchen porters, finding and hiring roles that often have high turnover rates requires a swift, accessible and engaging recruitment process.
Here’s just a few Reach ATS functions that will enhance your hiring process:
- Automatic job posting with ad templates for regular vacancies
- Centralised document storage
- Application via socials
- Quick apply – a shortened application process for those really urgent roles
- Disqualifier questions, to remove ineligible candidates before applications are submitted
- First screen of all applications (sorted according to your specific needs)
- Self-serve interview slots
- Automated personalised communications to keep candidates engaged in the process
- Task reminders (to finish applications/upload certificates etc.)
- Automatic reference collection
- Simple integration with third parties for pre-employment checks such as Right to Work, DBS etc.
By automating your recruitment workflows, our applicant tracking software will free you and your team from the recruitment admin burden and enhance your candidate journey.
How does our ATS hiring software automate recruitment tasks and reminders, saving time and reducing errors in the food and catering industry?
We’re all human. And we all make mistakes. But in recruitment those mistakes can be costly. By automating your HR workflows, you’ll never miss a message from a candidate or lose an afternoon chasing down interview slots again.
We work with you to design a bespoke system that fits perfectly with your hiring workflows:
All your hiring information at your fingertips
Our central HR Admin Portal has a dashboard that shows all your live vacancies and their stage in the process at a glance. See how many applications you’ve had; filter by experience, qualifications, location… whatever works best for you.
Friendly reminders
Reach ATS reminds you to complete outstanding tasks, and that’s not just your HR team. It also nudges candidates to complete applications and upload documentation and prompts hiring managers to review shortlisted candidates or approve offers. Keeping everything moving.
Data on tap
Our real time data allows you to analyse your hiring metrics such as time-to-hire or cost-per-hire. You can use it to refine your hiring strategy or spot potential skills gaps. And of course, any data stored within our system is completely safe and compliant with data regulations for the country/countries you are operating within
Reach ATS saves you time and prevents costly errors. Your personalised workflows and task reminders remove any potential bottlenecks in the hiring process. Saving you time, money and improving your hiring outcomes.
How can Reach ATS improve the recruitment workflow in the food and catering sector?
Recruitment workflows are a moveable feast. One workflow may work for hiring 100 seasonal banqueting staff, but that same workflow won’t necessarily find you a sommelier or a top-quality pastry chef.
When you’re hiring at scale for jobs that are either temporary, seasonal or high turnover, you need a responsive workflow that will whittle down suitable candidates and hire them fast.
Reach ATS grows with you, it can handle thousands of applications with ease, effortlessly automating the first-sift and ruling out ineligible applicants with the use of disqualifier questions.
Quick apply and applications via socials offer a fast, fair and equitable hiring process, meaning that your future hire can fill in an application at home, on the bus or even during a work break…. And of course, you can keep all applicant data (subject to their data consent of course) to build talent pools for future events.
But what if you’re after something a bit more specialist? Reach ATS can do that too. Our workflows flex to fit your needs, whether it’s hiring at scale or finding that one particular role that makes everything work better.
And if you just can’t find that master mixologist or a foraging expert, then our brilliant, responsive Candidate Attraction Specialists are on hand to assist you. We know just where to find the top talent for more specialist roles. We’ll recommend the right job boards and tailor your ads too.
How does Reach’ ATS facilitate collaboration among the recruiting team in the food and catering sector?
When it comes to efficient recruitment, internal collaboration is key. Reach’s intuitive system is accessible and easy to use, meaning the whole team can get involved.
Hiring Managers gain access to the ATS HR software via a bespoke Hiring Manager portal which lists outstanding tasks, empowers them to schedule interviews, upload jobs direct to job boards and make job offers. Meanwhile, your HR team retains complete oversight of the entire recruitment process via their HR Admin portal, where they can keep track of live vacancies and monitor hiring data.
Reach ATS lets your team efficiently oversee all your hiring workflows whilst empowering your hiring managers.
The recipe for recruitment success
Streamlining your hiring process with Reach ATS is about so much more than relieving the huge admin burden that comes with recruitment. Our feature-rich ATS will supply all you need to enhance your hiring process and empower your team. It will also create the time and space you need to build talent pools and spot skills gaps whilst providing purposeful data to inform your hiring strategy.
If you think you’d like to hear more about how our smart applicant tracking system can help you increase internal collaboration, enhance your candidate journey and reduce your time to hire, then Reach for a better ATS and book a demo today.