33 Restaurant Recruiting Tools to Try in 2024 (2024)

Matthew Rodgers , Popular Posts July 18, 2024

This article outlines 33 restaurant recruiting tools for restaurants, hospitality and hotels. This article is based on what our clients use, our team of recruiters use and what are the most effective restaurant recruiting tools that really help get results (great hires and saves us time in our workday!) But really anyone who is working on hiring and recruiting can probably benefit from using at least several of these great pieces of technology:

1) For job-seeker outreach and texting candidates from your computer you can try: Google VoiceorTextRecruit. These have been very effective or simply just use your cell phone! In this day and age, not many people pick up the phones. About 90% of people read a new text message within three minutes of receiving it. Text messages have a 98% open rate, compared to 20% for emails. People check their phones for text messages 47 times a day. According to online data. So let’s keep this mind when reaching out to candidates.

2) For transforming your job ads into elegant video advertisem*nts. Try Ongig. You can showcase your restaurants, your team and culture this way. Nothing beats a video.

3) Job Board Advertising & Hiring Sites: Craigslist and Snagajobfor hourly positions. Careerbuilder and Indeed are generallyspeaking better for management. It varies depending on Job-Seeker behavior as they usually bounce around different sites. RestaurantZone is of course a great option to hire top notch talent our restaurant recruiting services can be a good fit for you if you want to save time/money and hire great people for your business. We handle every step of the process sourcing, searching, interviewing, pre-screening, candidate due diligence, background check, offer letter and help you hire the best.

4) While Craigslist and other sites are cheap. Another cheap option is our hiring software where you can post ads to receive pre-screened talent, search resumes and do background checks. All for $1 for 30 days. Try this RZ’s inhouse restaurant recruiting tool to hire restaurant staff.

3) Social Media sites like Linkedin allow you connect with industry professionals and talent. Especially all sorts of chefs and managers. You can also try out a tool called Salestools.io which allows you to find email addresses from Linkedin users that you’re not connected with. Another neat tool to “prospect” for job-seekers.

4) Automated Job Posting for writing better job postings (contains machine learning technology). Try Textio.

5) For emailing multiple job-seekers at the same time try email marketing applications like: MailerLite, Mailchimp, ConstantContact, orAweber. This is also a great way to stay in touch with candidates, especially if you send out newsletters or content.

6) Quick pre-screening video interviews, you can try applications like: Google Hangouts, Skype, or Join.me.Additionally, Join.me is really great for conference calls especially in case you want to do a group interview.

8) Applicant Tracking System: I’ve had several of our clients in the space tell us they like Zoho Recruit. Features include resume parsing, job board posting, CRM, and much more.

9) Facebook Groups and Linkedin Groups can be great opportunities to connect with restaurant/hospitality talent. You could also utilize other social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and others to connect with younger generation/millennials. Just be sure to keep communication “social”.

10) A personal assistant (based on artificial intelligence, so not a real person) to help with recruiting admin work and other things related. Visit Chat GPT for this.

11) If you’d like a real personal assistant to screen resumes, post job ads or any other sort recruiting related work. Try freelancing sites where you can hire part-time or full-time virtual assistants for this. Such as Upwork,Freelancer or Zirtual.