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The #1 Recruiting Strategy

Modern Restaurant Management

Below is an excerpt of " How to Hire: The Essential Guide to Recruit & Retain the Right People " by Clint Smith, Founder and CEO of CareerPlug. He wrote the book to give owners and operators a playbook to achieve hiring success. The #1 recruiting strategy is retention.

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Restaurant Recruiting During and After COVID-19

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Restaurant recruiting during the COVID-19 pandemic can be advantageous for restaurants because so much restaurant talent is looking for work. Restaurants must be picky, however, to ensure that new hires are good fits for the long term and that they’ll work safely alongside existing staff. What PPE will you provide?

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Reduce Time Spent on Recruiting

Modern Restaurant Management

In a recent poll of restaurant managers and owners, LANDED found that two out of three are spending three or more hours a week on recruiting, and one in six are spending six-plus hours a week. Recruiting is an art. If you’d like to reduce the amount of time your managers need to spend on recruiting, try these steps.

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Complicated Hiring Practices Drive Candidates Away.  Make Them Simple

Modern Restaurant Management

Hiring remains a significant challenge for the restaurant industry. According to the National Restaurant Association, 70 percent of operators report not having enough employees to meet customer demand, and three out of four say they will commit more resources to employee recruitment and retention. Hiring is difficult enough.

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Restaurant Management Masterclass

Speaker: Harlan Scott, Founder of Harlan Scott Hospitality and Industry Restaurant

In this webinar, you will learn: Recruiting and retaining the best people from a crowded a competitive jobs board. Implementation of an onboarding and training program that makes a crucial first impression on your new hires. Do your staff think they’re working for the real deal?

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Inspiring Hourly Workers

Modern Restaurant Management

Scott Greenberg addresses that challenge in his new book, Stop the Shift Show: Turn Your Struggling Hourly Workers Into a Top-Performing Team. What do you hope readers take away from the book? The book also offers tools to engage employees, build better, longer-lasting teams them, and boost their performance.

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How to Start a Restaurant: 6 Places to Hire Your Back of House

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Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the main challenges for restaurant owners figuring out how to start a restaurant is hiring the right people. Hiring is a tough problem for any restaurant owner – the labor pool for line cooks is tight in almost every market. Looking to hire a manager? Recruiters. Imagine this.