Survey
Finding & Attracting the High-Quality Applicants
Finding and attracting the best employees is the key to building a world-class restaurant team. But today, staffing a restaurant is also one of the biggest challenges of any restaurant.
We asked our members what they do to attract and hire the best candidates in their area. Over 430 independent restaurant operators throughout the U.S. and Canada participated.
Take this opportunity to discover the most effective recruiting practices that hundreds of RestaurantOwner.com members are using to staff their restaurants.
Here's what you'll learn:
- The most effective ways independents are finding and attracting quality candidates
- Information that independents are including in their job postings
- The different ways candidates can apply to work at independent restaurants
- How many independents are actively and effectively recruiting people who already have jobs
- The biggest obstacles independents are overcoming in attracting more high-quality applicants
- What independents say are the main reasons job candidates choose to work at their restaurant
- The BEST recruiting practices and policies of successful independent restaurants
- The most INEFFECTIVE recruiting practice and policies that many independents have stopped using
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