Recruitment software
for retail and hospitality
Attract, onboard and retain top talent with an applicant tracking system and recruitment software already trusted and used at scale by some of the biggest names in retail and hospitality.
Tame your volume.
Retail & hospitality hiring can often be a constant uphill battle to recruit quality candidates, quickly, and at scale. we’re here to help you handle mountains of applications fast, without anyone feeling like a number (even when they’re a ‘no’).
Tribepad’s talent acquisition platform powers volume recruitment that doesn’t feel like volume recruitment, with heaps of speedy functionality like smart automation, templates, job cloning, and bulk actions. Plus excellent Onboarding that gets your new recruits delivering value fast.
Turn the tables on skills shortages.
First Brexit, then the pandemic, retail and hospitality have been hit hard by skills and shortages.
Attract your best candidates back to the workforce, with fabulous employer branding, compelling recruitment marketing campaigns, and a top to toe candidate experience that’s faster, fairer, and far more flexible.
Take off your managers’ training wheels.
Fast, intuitive, and mobile-friendly, Tribepad is the hands-off way for hiring managers to be hands-on in retail and hospitality.
Our talent acquisition software makes it simple to manage centrally but use locally so it’s got lots of flexible permissions, approvals, workflows, and templates and it’s super simple to use. Your managers will be flying, and you can spot at a glance that everything’s on track.
Uncover your ‘people people’
In the retail and hospitality hiring world, you know your employees will work directly with customers and be the face of your business, so it’s important to know you’re hiring people with customer service skills to shine.
Get beyond their CV instantly with Tribepad Video Interviewing. Tribepad comes with a heap of ready-made integrations with fantastic assessment providers too, through our excellent Partner Ecosystem. Your customers will thank you (and the C-Suite too).
What our clients have to say
Tribepad’s look and feel has won us a lot of credit with our users – it’s really modern, catchy, an engaging look and feel platform
We have a strong relationship with Tribepad, from our Account Manager to the Support and Training team.
We have created a better system for our recruitment team and applicants alike.
Our whole people team is focussed on increasing diversity across our teams. Tribepad has been instrumental. Anonymous Applications has completely removed the risk of unconscious bias from our recruitment journey.
Make candidates grin, not grimace
When your candidates are juggling a million-and-one applications in an hour on their lunchbreak, there’s no time for second chances.
Tribepad makes wowing candidates simple, delivering a fast, convenient, branded candidate experience that stands out for the right reasons. Treat candidates as ambassadors, not commodities.
Get ahead of the curve
Whether it’s seasonal surges or new openings, Tribepad Core ATS + CRM has heaps of functionality to put you on the front foot.
Use Talent Finder to effortlessly import candidates from external sources and our advanced database to keep track of your talent. Keep talent pools engaged with bulk SMS and email or run targeted recruitment marketing campaigns with our no-code landing page builder and email sequencing. No more pre-holiday panic.
Find your needle in a haystack
A *chefs kiss* chef. A target-smashing store manager. A memory-of-a-lifetime-making hotelier.
Whoever your hard-to-fill, impossible-to-replace superstars are, Tribepad’s Core ATS + CRM makes attracting and hiring them a whole lot easier. And keeping them, with awesome Onboarding that integrates them into your business fast.
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How Tribepad's ATS transformed recruitment for Tesco & One Stop
Some of the biggest employers in retail and hospitality use Tribepad as a springboard for fairer, faster, better recruitment. If your candidates have worked a shop floor, served a sausage roll, manned a check-out, or assembled a sandwich, there’s a good bet they’re applied for jobs through our recruitment platform.
Retail recruitment software FAQs
What is retail and hospitality recruitment software?
Retail and hospitality recruitment software helps organisations manage high-volume, multi-location hiring more efficiently. It can bring applicant tracking, candidate screening, recruitment automation, talent pooling, interview management and onboarding into one system, helping recruitment teams hire at scale while maintaining a consistent experience for candidates and hiring managers.
What are the biggest recruitment challenges in retail and hospitality?
Retail and hospitality recruitment teams often have to manage high application volumes, skills shortages, seasonal demand, high employee turnover and hard-to-fill roles, while competing to secure candidates quickly. Recruitment can also be decentralised across multiple stores, restaurants, hotels or locations, making consistency, visibility and hiring-manager engagement particularly important.
How can recruitment software help manage high-volume retail and hospitality hiring?
Recruitment software can help high-volume employers automate repetitive tasks, quickly screen and progress candidates, take actions in bulk and create consistent workflows for frequently recruited roles. Templates and job cloning can also make it faster to create vacancies, while centralised candidate data gives recruitment teams better visibility across large volumes of applications.
How can retailers and hospitality businesses recruit across multiple locations?
Recruitment software can help multi-site employers manage hiring centrally while giving local hiring managers access to the roles and candidates relevant to them. Configurable permissions, workflows, templates and reporting can create consistency across the organisation while still allowing individual stores, restaurants, hotels, regions or brands to manage their own recruitment needs.
How can talent pools help retail and hospitality businesses hire faster?
Talent pools allow retail and hospitality recruiters to build relationships with candidates before a vacancy needs filling, rather than starting every recruitment campaign from scratch. This is particularly useful for high-volume, seasonal and frequently recruited roles, where employers can group suitable candidates, keep them engaged and approach them when relevant opportunities become available.
How can recruitment software improve candidate experience in high-volume hiring?
Recruitment software can help employers create a faster and more consistent candidate journey through mobile-friendly applications, automated communications, self-service interview booking and streamlined recruitment workflows. Automation can also help ensure candidates receive timely updates, even when recruitment teams are processing thousands of applications, so high-volume hiring doesn’t have to feel impersonal.
How can recruitment software help with seasonal hiring?
Recruitment software can help retail and hospitality employers prepare for seasonal recruitment by building reusable talent pools, creating templates for frequently hired roles and automating repetitive recruitment tasks. Keeping previous and prospective candidates engaged throughout the year can also give employers a ready-made pipeline when demand increases, reducing the need to start from scratch before every seasonal peak.
Why choose Tribepad for retail and hospitality recruitment?
Tribepad is recruitment software built to support high-volume, multi-location hiring without losing sight of candidate experience. Retail and hospitality organisations including Tesco, Greggs, Card Factory, Sofology and Hotel Chocolat use Tribepad, with functionality designed to help recruitment teams automate repetitive work, manage large candidate volumes and give local hiring managers the tools they need to recruit effectively.