Need to Hire Restaurant or Retail Workers Urgently? 6 Key Recruiting Insights From Our Latest Webinar

One of the key complaints we keep hearing when connecting with employers in the QSR and retailer space is that high-volume recruitment hasn’t evolved much in decades: Candidates simply have too many options and application processes aren't as frictionless and...

Top 5 Reasons Why CEOs Need To Make Lack Of Staff A #1 Priority This Summer

By Mathieu Weber Are CEOs Squandering Their Greatest Opportunities and Resources?   As a CEO, I like to pride myself on being aware of not only what is happening within my organization - but the external factors that impact it.   The reality is, though, it...

5 Questions That Will Improve Your Hourly Candidate Experience

We tested these 5 questions with over 100 HR professionals; here is what our findings reveal and how they can help you improve your hourly candidate experience.

How You Can Use Instagram to Find Hires

Despite the choppy first half job market and uneasy summer hiring season, economists are confident that the second half of the year will see better employment rates nationwide. This is in keeping with last year’s trend of recovering the hundred of thousands of jobs...

Why Restaurants Need to Rethink the Hiring Process

With capacity regulations lifted, restaurants were hoping to get back to where they were pre-pandemic.  Unfortunately, where there were once limitations imposed by government, limitations are now based on the number of Back of House (BOH) and Front of House (FOH)...

Simplified Retail Hiring … Giving hiring managers their time back

One of the greatest benefits of digital transformation is the ability to apply technology to a business process to streamline and optimize it. High volume retailer recruiting is one such area ripe for automation.

How much productivity can be gained by modernizing frontline hiring?

How much productivity can be gained by modernizing frontline hiring? More CEOs are finding out. This past year has tested everyone’s resolve as companies have grappled with massive disruptions from supply chains of goods and services in the early days of the pandemic....

The Coming of Age of Frontline Recruiting

The U.S. hires a staggering 66 million people a year – and more than 2/3 of those come from outside the organization. That number swells significantly when speaking about frontline workers – which can amount to almost 75 percent of an organization’s workforce. And...

Frontline Recruiting Platform Brings in New Management Team, New Funding, New Focus

Montreal-based Wirkn specializes in recruiting high-volume frontline workers   Montreal, 16TH November 2020 -- Wirkn, a pioneer in video-first job hiring and specialist in frictionless high-volume recruiting, announced today the new management team, as it widens...

Show, Don’t Tell

The recruitment landscape has been radically altered by COVID-19. Unprecedented unemployment numbers mean that more people with more diverse skillsets than ever are looking for jobs. One of the key - and underappreciated - aspects of this "new normal" is the necessity...
Get Ready for the Most Popular Interview Questions

Get Ready for the Most Popular Interview Questions

You’ve got to be ready if you want to thrive in your interviews! You’ll need to be knowledgeable about the job requirements and aware of the pertaining skills in order to match yours. Why do employers embrace these questions? It’s quite simple really, they’ll share...

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Give your Best First Impression

Give your Best First Impression

We are all aware that first impressions are crucial during any meeting or encounter. Who’s never regretted their actions during a first encounter? Whether it be mumbling our words, incapable of controlling certain gestures, or just flat out become awkward…we all...

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Fast-working

Fast-working

The hidden skills of work consumers Say all you want about millennials and their phones, the age of communication is here to stay. Everything goes faster, and the minds of the younger generations are already adapted: fast-food, fast-dating, fast-fashion, and now,...

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Which Field Do I Pursue A Career In?

Which Field Do I Pursue A Career In?

Winter is shortly coming to an end, we can feel it, or eager to feel it! However, you’re not really thinking about any of this. You’re rather more stressed than relieved that winter is over because it means that you’ll have to make THE decision. Apparently the biggest...

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Recruit your best team ever in 2017!

Recruit your best team ever in 2017!

New Wirkn Manager Dashboard makes it easier and faster to post jobs and screen candidates It’s the start of a fresh new year — and time to dive into all those lofty New Year’s resolutions! With the hectic holiday retail season winding down, now is a great time to...

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When to make friends at work (and when not to)

When to make friends at work (and when not to)

If you’re like most North Americans in the work force, your job takes up the majority of your day. We spend a lot of time with our colleagues. The tendency to make friends at work is strong, and it is only natural that our work and social lives blend. We are social...

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