Case Studies With Jobvite, BJ’s Restaurant Delights Diners and Candidates Alike

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	With Jobvite, BJ’s Restaurant Delights Diners and Candidates Alike

With Jobvite, BJ’s Restaurant Delights Diners and Candidates Alike

Technology Category	Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage Retail
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Human Resources
Services	System Integration Training
Challenge	A difficult, time-consuming application process for job candidates created a high dropoff rate. Poor customer service experience with previous recruiting software provider. Read More
About Customer	BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 154 casual dining restaurants and offers an innovative and broad menu featuring award-winning, signature deep-dish pizza complemented with generously portioned salads, appetizers, sandwiches, soups, pastas, entrees and desserts, including the Pizookie® dessert. Quality, flavor, value, moderate prices and sincere service remain distinct attributes of the BJ’s experience. With over 150 restaurants and 10,000 employees constituting its family, BJ’s Restaurant strives to wow its guests with a valuable, cost-effective dining experience — no matter the location. As a family favorite and table turner since 1978, BJ’s relies on its service-oriented staff and capable managers to create an exceptional dining experience for guests. Read More
Solution	Jobvite Hire and Jobvite Engage were implemented to create a customizable and candidate-focused strategy. The solution included excellent and accessible customer service and assistance through Jobvite’s Customer Success team. The transition process was smooth, allowing BJ’s team to be increasingly more hands-on and decide directly what the new process would look like. Jobvite’s customization options allowed BJ’s to structure their application process, choose how much information to ask candidates for upfront, and filter through resumes to send personalized follow-up questions. Jobvite Publisher empowered BJ’s employees to leverage their networks for automatic posting and seamless referral management. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Retail

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Human Resources

Services

System Integration

Training

Challenge

A difficult, time-consuming application process for job candidates created a high dropoff rate. Poor customer service experience with previous recruiting software provider.

About Customer

BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 154 casual dining restaurants and offers an innovative and broad menu featuring award-winning, signature deep-dish pizza complemented with generously portioned salads, appetizers, sandwiches, soups, pastas, entrees and desserts, including the Pizookie® dessert. Quality, flavor, value, moderate prices and sincere service remain distinct attributes of the BJ’s experience. With over 150 restaurants and 10,000 employees constituting its family, BJ’s Restaurant strives to wow its guests with a valuable, cost-effective dining experience — no matter the location. As a family favorite and table turner since 1978, BJ’s relies on its service-oriented staff and capable managers to create an exceptional dining experience for guests.

Solution

Jobvite Hire and Jobvite Engage were implemented to create a customizable and candidate-focused strategy. The solution included excellent and accessible customer service and assistance through Jobvite’s Customer Success team. The transition process was smooth, allowing BJ’s team to be increasingly more hands-on and decide directly what the new process would look like. Jobvite’s customization options allowed BJ’s to structure their application process, choose how much information to ask candidates for upfront, and filter through resumes to send personalized follow-up questions. Jobvite Publisher empowered BJ’s employees to leverage their networks for automatic posting and seamless referral management.

Impact #1	The implementation process was seamless, creating an updated and easy-to-use hiring system.
Impact #2	Jobvite’s customization options allowed BJ’s to transform its recruiting and hiring process into a seamless process on both sides.
Impact #3	Jobvite’s HR integration process helped BJ’s executives get on board with the new technology.

Impact #1

The implementation process was seamless, creating an updated and easy-to-use hiring system.

Impact #2

Jobvite’s customization options allowed BJ’s to transform its recruiting and hiring process into a seamless process on both sides.

Impact #3

Jobvite’s HR integration process helped BJ’s executives get on board with the new technology.

Benefit #1	30% increase in the number of candidates that apply to work with BJ’s.

Benefit #1

30% increase in the number of candidates that apply to work with BJ’s.

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With Jobvite, BJ’s Restaurant Delights Diners and Candidates Alike

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