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Sirvo is not your typical job board. We not only provide businesses with the tools to make better hiring decisions without wasting precious resources, but also do more to make sure applicants keep coming to you. Take advantage by creating your free business profile today! Offer expires Feb 10th, 2016!
Businesses on Sirvo have business pages where information and current openings are listed. A business’s page is essentially their hosted careers site; the page, as well as the job listings, are accessible to the public, so both users and non-users can discover open positions.
This helps companies increase their reach to job seekers. Businesses can easily advertise their open jobs on the web and social media by sharing their page’s link, and professionals can click on a job to get more information. This means businesses don’t have to worry about their jobs getting buried under an ever-growing list of more recent postings.
Multi-Location and Multi-Admin Functionality
Once a business page is created, the owner can invite additional administrators to help manage the page. Admins can do everything that the owner can besides grant admin privileges. This includes publishing and archiving job listings, reviewing applications, using the applicant tracking system, and messaging. So, whether hiring is done collaboratively or by expertise, it can be a team effort with Sirvo.
Sirvo allows users to create multiple business pages, which is ideal for businesses with several locations. By simply creating a page for each location, businesses are able to delegate hiring responsibilities, post jobs according to location, and give job seekers easy access to location information.
Applicant Tracking System
The application process, from applying to reviewing applications, is hassle-free on Sirvo. Job seekers apply in-app with professional profiles that include photos, work history, skills, and interests. Once submitted, applications are delivered straight to the applicant tracking system inbox and sorted by job listing, keeping them organized. Page admins can then review applications and sort candidates based on whether or not they’re in the running.
The ATS not only helps businesses manage applications but also makes it easy to hone in on the most qualified candidates so that when it’s time to make the call on who to hire, there’s confidence that it’s the right choice.
Messaging
Sirvo also provides a messaging hub to centralize communication. Each business page has its own message inbox accessible by all page admins from which messages can be sent and received. This gives employers and job seekers an easy way to get in touch with each other, whether it’s an invitation to interview or a question about a job listing while keeping everyone on the hiring team in the loop.
Added benefits of joining Sirvo
At Sirvo, we know that an easier hiring process is only half the battle. Businesses that are hiring also need to engage job seekers on a broader level. That’s why we send out our e-newsletters advertising your open positions, continually share your openings across our social channels and even post jobs to Craiglist at no additional cost to you!
Register your business today to access all of our great features free for a limited time! Offer expires 02/10/2016
“We have had success with applicants that have applied for all of our positions. Since Sirvo is new and hip I feel like it attracts people that are more on brand with our company than other staffing services available.” – Paulina Szafranski, Lotus Concepts
As a manager, in a restaurant or otherwise, it is your responsibility to ensure that business is running smoothly. This ranges from how staff is performing to business outcomes. It can be a heavy load. However, there are still many easy and inexpensive things you can do to make sure your establishment is running the way it should and to prevent problems before they occur.
Get involved
No one thinks of the phrase “absentee boss” in a positive context. Being in the establishment is a good start, but you need to get out of your office and on the floor and in the kitchen.
Be seen.
Even if the general manager and/or owner are not, you can be. In fact, putting in the effort to be available to your staff and customers will help you in the end. Employees will respect you all the more, making your job that much easier.
Drop in unexpectedly
When I was working in the industry, my manager would pop in and out all the time. She would tell us that she had an appointment the next morning and was coming in late, then show up early and say that the appointment was rescheduled. After I moved on, she let me in on her little secret and explained that it was her way of keeping everyone on top of their game. And it worked.
The first few times you do this though, it may catch a few off guard. Give them some slack the first few times, but if they don’t shape up, you’ll know and can then do something about it.
Stop by after hours
You know those restaurant ‘spy’ shows where they go undercover to find out who’s behind the business’s shortages? Well, one of the recurring things on those programs is that abuses are happening after hours; bartenders are throwing parties, chefs are using your place for a pop-up restaurant, etc. Well, even though those shows are overdramatized, they’re not off the ball.
To ensure this is not happening at your business, especially if you’ve noticed something suspicious, go in when the place is closed, and do it often. For many restaurants, a drive by will suffice. No lights on and no parked cars are both good signs when the place is supposed to be closed. A similar tactic is to check with your alarm company to see when the alarm was turned on and turned off.
Hire an experienced person for the role of mystery shopper
Again, those ‘spy’ tv shows are on to something here.Using a mystery shopper can help uncover that which you would not discover otherwise. This can be anything from poor service and inconsistencies in food/beverages to comps, and more.
It’s best if your mystery shopper is experienced in restaurant and hospitality operations and someone you’re familiar with, but you’re employees are not.
Also, having your mystery shopper visit regularly will allow him or her to form relationships with your staff, increasing access to what’s going on behind the scenes.
Do an accurate inventory, and do it often
Whether you’re responsible for both food and beverages, or just one or the other, don’t just do an inventory on one time of item or before placing weekly orders. If possible, aim to do a thorough inventory 2-3 times per week. While inventory should always be done when the business is closed, don’t do it on the same days every week.
This is a lot to take on, but there are tools that can help. It’ll be worth it in the end; you’ll not only be protecting the business from unnecessary spending but also ensuring that business operations are running as they should.
Rotate staff between units and shifts
The more comfortable staff is with each other the more likely they will get together to do things that should not be done. This is a tough tightrope to walk.
You need to have people together enough that they work smoothly with each other, but not consistent enough to become overly friendly.
The side benefit of this is that everyone starts knowing how to work with everyone else, which is a plus if you have to switch around people for special events, staffing shortages, etc.
The bottom line is that there are several small steps that you can take to tighten up business operations and ensure that everything is being run as it should be.
We redesigned Sirvo to make your experience the best it can be, which includes some great new features!
✓ We’re public!
We’re no longer in private beta. Sirvo is now open to the public making the onboarding process much smoother. Now it’s not only faster to get on Sirvo but it’s also easier with Facebook and Google+ integrations.
✓ New account system
Instead of signing up as either a business or a user, everyone on Sirvo is now a user with their own personal profile and anyone can make a business page.
✓ New look and feel
Navigate between profiles and pages using the left navigation menu and profile dropdown. We also hope you like our new color scheme and design.
New features exclusively for business pages
✓ Multi-admin
Page admins can now invite other users to help manage their page, job posts and applicants.
✓ Individual settings
Each admin of a business page can customize their own notification settings.
Even more features coming soon…
Screenshots
Use your personal account to create and manage company pages:
Invite admins to manage company pages:
Edit the profile header and resume sections on the profile page:
It may be easier at the time to post one listing for ‘All Positions’ in need of filling instead of listings for specific positions, but will it pay off in the end? Probably not, and here’s why.
Let’s start from the top of the hiring game: attracting talent.
This begins with discovering your open job(s), which Sirvo strives to make as easy as possible; with our Search feature, candidates can simply type in a keyword and see all relevant results.
In most cases, the keyword will be a job title, which means that “All Positions” with no mention of actual positions won’t be shown as a result. This drastically decreases your chance to reach potential employees right off the bat.
Beyond the title, the description and requirements are even more important!
To make a smart hire in less time, attracting the candidates you’re looking for, from personality to skill-set, is a necessity.
The specifics you require for each position are must-haves in the job listing because it tells candidates exactly what you need in an employee, so they know whether or not they fit the bill. Without them, you’re more likely to receive applications from those who don’t possess the necessary credentials required to fill the position instead of those that do.
Plus, in the future, Sirvo will offer job-candidate matching based on how qualified candidates are according to the details in the job listing, but you won’t be able to take advantage without including specifics about experience, skills, and requirements.
When it’s time to review applications, let Sirvo help.
To make it easier for employers to hone in on qualified candidates, Sirvo provides an applicant tracking system, which assists in organizing and managing candidates.
Every job listing has its own ATS Inbox where, upon receipt, applications are stored by default. From that point, after reviewing applications, candidates can be moved to Qualified or Declined based on whether or not they are still in the running for the position.
This way, applications are automatically sorted by position, making it easy to review and compare candidates. This is also helpful if hiring is conducted by several people. All applications to ‘Position A’ are separate from applications to ‘Position B’.
However, job listings for “All Positions” will negate this first level of organization built into the ATS, making it more difficult to review and manage candidates for each position.
The bottom line: hiring for ‘all positions’ is harder than the alternative.
Although it may take some additional time up front to create job listings for individual positions rather than lumping them together, you’ll definitely make up for it when it comes time to review applications and hire.
Not only are you increasing the odds of engaging professionals that have the specific qualifications that you’re seeking, you’re also making it easier for you and your staff to manage the entire process.
It all boils down to making your hiring process as efficient as possible, meaning the resources you spend attracting candidates, reviewing applications, and ultimately hiring are just what’s necessary to find the right person for the right position.
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It’s official: Women Who Launch was a success! Michael Kilcoyne, the panel’s MC, did a spectacular job, asking a variety of relevant questions. The panelists, Stephanie Maxwell (@gosirvo), Jenna Walker (@artifactuprising), and Amy Baglan (@meetmindful), were in kind, sharing insight and experiences from their unique perspectives.
The highlights included discussing work-life balance, or “congruence” as Jenna calls it. Each of these women have had to conquer their own challenges to achieve zen: for Stephanie, it’s the small but no less important things, like eating and exercising, that she had to learn how to put first; Jenna didn’t want to sacrifice being a mom, so even though it meant less sleep, she woke up early to get work done so she could fit in school drop-offs and pick-ups; Amy has discovered that the key to maintaining her balance is mindfulness and meditation.
When it came to handling the strong emotions that go along with the stress of founding a tech company, each woman had a different take. Stephanie sets her emotions aside with her team because that’s how she’s most effective as a manager, while Jenna does the opposite, sharing that she “threw a fit” the week before as an example, because she’s found that she’s at her best when there’s no pretense. Amy falls somewhere in the middle, but highlighted the importance of having a second opinion when emotions run high by telling the audience about an email mishap that involved a dick pic. We all got a good laugh out of that!
All in all, it was great discussion about what it means to be a female founder in the tech industry.
