What’s the Best Background for Hiring for Hospitality, Restaurants, and Leisure?
Hospitality staff is the heart of a successful hospitality business, whether a restaurant, hotel or cafe. The hospitality sector should have an effective recruitment strategy in place as it is often challenging to recruit hospitality staff. This is primarily due to low wages, inflexible schedules, fewer benefits, and late working hours. Additionally, hospitality can be […]
How to Attract and Retain Recent Graduates
Most businesses are struggling with acute labor shortages. There are over 10 million job openings in the U.S. with a pool of only 6 million unemployed workers. This is in response to the global pandemic which temporarily shut down 120,000 businesses, leaving 30 million U.S. workers unemployed. The gradual reopening of some businesses has led […]
Where Have All the Hospitality, Restaurant, and Retail Workers Gone?
The pandemic has completely changed how the hospitality industry works. The hospitality industry lost millions of jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic as the sector shut down and people were told to stay in their homes. As a result, many chefs and wait staff were laid off. While the U.S. government launched the American Rescue Plan, […]
How Do You Hire Entry-Level Talent?
Hiring entry-level talent can be a challenging task. Filtering assessments and algorithms can only do so much to find the right candidate for the job. In addition, companies do not always have the time or resources to interview all the candidates. Many companies recruit entry-level talent, and many suitable candidates have the skill sets companies […]
Hiring Entry-Level Talent Across Different Generations
Hiring talented workers across different generations requires meticulous planning and strategy, as each generation has different views on education and office work. Organizations need to understand each generation’s needs to develop an effective hiring strategy. Generation Y, also known as millennials, include workers born between 1981 and 1996 who will constitute the majority of the […]
Why Are There So Many “Hiring” Signs Around
2021 was the year of “Great Resignation,” where millions of workers in the U.S. left their jobs during the pandemic. According to a study by Pew Research Center, employees who quit their jobs cited low pay, few advancement opportunities, and feeling disrespected at their workplaces among their reasons for quitting. A considerable number of people […]
Take 2: The Pre-Recorded Video Interview
Long before and especially since the new normal began, video interviews have been prevalent and convenient for recruiters when engaging with job seekers who can’t come to the interview in person. In 2022, 69% of businesses are conducting video interviews, and most of those businesses are committed to using video interviewing methods long-term to speed […]
What’s Involved in a Background Check?
Most of the jobs we source for at KangarooStar require background checks, especially for executive and personal assistant roles. What is a background check? What does it show? And should you be wary of submitting to one? Background testing is a necessary step for many companies and individuals, and is only meant to keep out […]