The hospitality industry faces unique recruitment challenges. Securing top candidates, that have experience as industry professionals, with fluctuating demand and a competitive job market can be difficult. To overcome these obstacles, it’s essential to understand the current landscape and implement effective strategies.
This blog explores current recruitment trends and challenges and offers strategies for overcoming seasonal changes and thriving in the hospitality industry.
- Plan ahead: Anticipate your client needs and be prepared with candidate searches, onboarding, and reaching out to existing candidates to see what their latest situation is.
- Utilise downtime effectively: Use quieter periods to review job advertisements and candidate compliance checks.
- Plan for peak seasons: In hospitality hiring, it’s crucial to prepare for increased staffing needs during peak periods, such as the festive period. Your clients may require more workers to cover the increase in covers and their staff holidays. Being prepared for this can make a significant difference in your recruitment strategy.
- Understand the industry: recruit the right candidates for the type of restaurant or hotel it is. You don’t want to hire a head chef with many years of experience in catering environments, or private dining, to work as an executive chef at a fast food company. You need to be entirely aware of the professional individuals and where they’ll fit best within a company.
Why can recruitment software help hospitality recruitment agencies?
Switching to recruitment software, such as Eclipse Core Pro, automates and digitises the recruitment process, helping you attract top talent by expanding your reach through job board postings and your website. Our hiring software is especially useful if you’re a specialist recruitment agency in the hospitality business looking to find the right candidates to fill shifts and jobs quickly and efficiently, even at short notice.
With Eclipse recruitment CRM, you can streamline your communication process. The platform lets you communicate directly with suitable candidates, saving time and keeping your conversations organised. This feature is particularly useful in the fast-paced hospitality industry, where efficient communication is key.
An end-to-end recruitment CRM designed to save you a lot of time across a range of functions:
- Create a vacancy from a vacancy template.
- Quickly fill vacancies from pre-approved candidates
- Auto compliance checking like right to work
- Plus, many more
The Eclipse hospitality recruitment software is designed to optimise hiring processes, by streamlining finding candidates, managing applications, pre-screening candidates, and being able to send out high volume mailshots to your great network, talent pool, or pipeline that you’ve built up to support your hiring efforts.
While Eclipse Software helps streamline your workflows, it can also provide powerful reporting. From Power BI backed widgets that can show you a list of activities, like calls made, CVs sent, or records created and the number of times the action has been completed within the filtered parameters, to monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs), like time-to-hire, source of hire, and candidate satisfaction. All of this works together to monitor the success of any hospitality hiring efforts and ensure that your hospitality recruitment strategy is delivering you the very best candidates, backed by data.
The Eclipse recruitment software can also develop in-depth reports of detailed financial classifications for divisional and departmental back-office reporting, giving you complete visibility of everything happening throughout the hiring process within your recruitment agency.
Our hospitality recruitment software helps you offer a professional service to hospitality venue clients and ensures that you can deliver the best talent as quickly as possible.
Eclipse automates tasks, saves time, and delivers big results. Request a demo to see how Eclipse recruitment software can benefit your recruitment agency.
