How a Zaxby's franchisee saw a 500% increase in applicants with Workstream

Ben initially relied primarily on individual job posting sites for his sourcing needs and encountered several issues. Postings got expensive quickly, easily costing up to tens of thousands of dollars a month. And with free job sites, it was not unusual to get less than 20 applicants a month, which was not going to cut it when he had 14 restaurants to staff. With so few applications coming in, his hiring managers often missed notifications—and potentially good applicants. 

It didn’t help that the application process was long with plenty of forms and details to fill in, which deterred younger applicants with shorter attention spans. 

To try to get more applicants in the door, hiring managers were constantly following up through phone calls, only to get ghosted when it came time for the interview. Ben and his team had accepted that this was just the way hiring would be: a numbers game where the objective was to get as many people to respond to them as possible in hopes that a few would stay engaged long enough to get hired.