Large Retailers And Distribution Centers Adopt Jobaline Mobile Pre-Screening To Hire 50 Percent Faster During Record Demand For Seasonal Workers

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Oct 07, 2015, 09:00 ET

SEATTLE, Oct. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Jobaline Inc. reported today another strong quarter for the hourly-labor sector, with wages growing seven percent versus last year in the retail, logistics and hospitality industries, where competition for the best local talent is fierce. Leading retailers and distribution centers are not only increasing wages to attract talent, but also deploying mobile and automated pre-screening to reduce their time-to-hire and advertising expenses. Large companies using Jobaline report filling their seasonal roles 50 percent faster while saving over 60 percent in recruitment costs.

As a result of strong job growth, an increasingly selective workforce and high turnover rates, Jobaline's customers started hiring for seasonal employment three weeks earlier this year. Just this past July, job openings rose to a record high of 5.8 million. With attrition rates between 40 percent and 100 percent in the retail, logistics and hospitality sectors, recruiters are presented with the problem of finding qualified workers at a faster speed.

"Recruitment is a constant challenge in our stores and distribution centers. The nature of the business and the workforce traditionally leads to high turnover in these areas," said Dondi DeMarco, Director of Human Resources at SalonCentric. "Most of these workers rely on their mobile devices. We wanted to make it easy for the right people, regardless of their level of access to technology, to start working with us while also enabling our managers to save recruiting time, and to stay focused on the business and the customers."

With Jobaline's pay-per-results recruitment solution that is completely mobile and EEOC compliant, large companies have automated the sourcing and processing of more than one million job applications. These large companies and franchise groups report an average savings of 60 percent in job advertising and recruitment expenses and report a faster time-to-hire, reducing the time to source and hire a local and qualified worker from over 30 days to an average of ten days.

"By offering a mobile application and automating the applicant screening, we helped our customers hire over 25,000 retail, logistics, maintenance and hospitality workers in the past months at a fraction of the cost and with improved speed and applicant quality," said Luis Salazar, CEO of Jobaline. "We also see a positive trend in wages as large employers fight for the best local talent, and we expect the trend to continue during the fourth quarter of the year."

About Jobaline

Jobaline.com is the leading mobile and bilingual hourly jobs matching marketplace. Jobaline makes it easy for workers to find, apply for, and get matched to jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Through its OFCCP and EEOC compliant matching technology, Jobaline customers report a reduction of 60 percent in recruitment expenses and 50 percent in time-to-hire, while saving hundreds of hours in manual pre-screening tasks.

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