CiCi's Pizza Generates +10,000 Jobs After Inventing The Unlimited Pizza Buffet Concept And Hires Better And Faster Thanks To Jobaline Mobile Recruitment

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Sep 16, 2015, 08:30 ET

SEATTLE, Sept. 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Jobaline announced today that CiCi's Pizza, the leading kid-friendly quick service restaurant corporation, reports faster hiring of its workforce while experiencing 80 percent savings in recruitment costs and man-hours thanks to Jobaline's mobile recruitment solution.

CiCi's Pizza invented the Unlimited Pizza Buffet concept, driven by a belief in making life more flavorful by empowering guests to find the flavors they love. At nearly 450 restaurants strong in 32 states, Entrepreneur recognized CiCi's on its Franchise 500 list in 2015. CiCi's also won the Technomic 2014 Consumers' Choice award for best kid-friendly quick service restaurant.

With CiCi's generating nearly 10,000 jobs across their 450 franchises and owned and operated restaurants, CiCi's devoted a significant amount of time and money to recruitment and training because of the constant hiring cycle associated with the fast-food sector. By relying heavily on job boards and paper-based applications in their stores, they struggled with finding applicants close to their locations that were qualified to do the job. CiCi's needed a solution to address these problems and support the company's overall business strategy and strong expansion plans.

"The job applicants are also our customers, hence it is very important for us to offer them a pleasant job application experience, in the device of their choice and totally free of advertising or solicitations," said Brian Cassidy, Vice President of Operations at CiCi's Pizza. "Both our customer base and our employee base are mobile first. Thus, having a mobile recruitment solution that completely automates the pre-screening process is critical. It has allowed our area managers to focus on qualified candidates who live nearby."

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports over 25 million positions open in the Hospitality, Retail and Staffing Sectors and the forecast is bullish in terms of new jobs creation. "With attrition rates that range from 44 percent to 75 percent in the sector, we're looking at close to 14 million hires and over 200 million job applications processed per year," said Luis Salazar, CEO of Jobaline. "Leading companies like CiCi's Pizza can save millions of dollars and invest in their strategic, long-term expansion plans if they implement the right mobile job application experience and automated pre-screening."

Using Jobaline, CiCi's automated its entire pre-screening process, which allows Area Managers to focus more of their time on business objectives. CiCi's corporate team defined their competency model -- a set of pre-screening questions and scoring criteria -- and made it available to its Area Managers overseeing nearly 50 corporate locations. Area Managers simply select from the list of approved questions and in less than two minutes, they are able to post a job. With one click, that job is distributed across 100+ reputable job boards. Area managers now access pre-screened applicants, listen to recorded responses from automated phone interviews, and invite best matches to in-person interviews. Since working with Jobaline, CiCi's has saved 80 percent in recruitment costs.

Whether a candidate walks in to one of the locations or searches for a job online using a mobile phone or a PC, Jobaline automates candidate pre-screening, including verification of contact information. As many as 62 percent of the job seekers have completed their applications on a mobile device.

About CiCi's Pizza

For franchising information, contact Michael Iglesias at [email protected] or 972-745-9313 or visit franchise.cicispizza.com.

About Jobaline

Jobaline.com is the leading mobile and bilingual hourly jobs matching marketplace. It makes it easy for workers to find, apply for, and get matched to jobs, from any mobile device or computer while reducing recruitment expenses, increasing quality of applicants and reducing time to hire, saving hundreds of hours in manual pre-screening.

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