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Hiring events is a perfect example
of how Indeed continues to innovate
to help people get jobs.
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We've been around for 22 years now.
So now, we not only do conveyor belt restaurants,
we do full service restaurants.
We do grab and go.
And we do retail kiosks as well.
So now more than ever is a really exciting time
to be part of Yo and finding out about the Yo journey.
We decided on and Indeed hiring event
really because of the pace of the hiring at the moment.
The Indeed Hiring events have been really helpful
for our Tesco hiring.
We've been kind of looking to open 50 sites in 25 weeks.
And a lot of our London sites in particular
are looking to kind of top up maybe one or two, three, maybe
four team members each.
And rather than the traditional method
of phone screens and interviews and assessments,
we found it much better to try and do everything all in one
and kind of get 20 candidates down on a day
and look to hire between 6 and eight people each time.
Indeed hiring events are a brilliant way to bulk
hire, save time, and help with hiring needs.
An Indeed hiring event works for our clients
by bringing relevant candidates to the event
day, which is powered by sponsored jobs and ITA Apply.
It simplifies the process as we will push the advertising.
The client will book the venue, and the candidates just
show up.
Hiring events offer a much more diverse range of candidates
because you get people coming along who maybe aren't great
at writing CVs and aren't great at their traditional
application forms and kind of going through the old rigmarole
process.
But we like to invite people down,
so we've got no preconceptions.
We don't know anything about until we meet them.
And then that really kind of gives them
an extra confidence to kind of show
what they can do and interview in more group scenarios
and bring out their personalities.
And that's what we really like to see at Yo.
The job seekers we've met today have
been a really diverse and eclectic bunch.
We've met people from all different backgrounds and all
across London.
And it's been really refreshing to see
some young people who really kind of maybe not
worked in hospitality before but maybe try to other industries
and really want to take a crack at hospitality and catering.
We've had lots of guys who worked in contract catering.
And they're looking to kind of move
from part time roles to full time roles.
And it's really pleasing to see how much they found out
about Yo and research for brand and see us
as an employer of choice
I just think it was a really good opportunity
to find work but then also get like a real view of what
the company is about.
Often when I apply online, you don't really
get a grasp of like what the company is actually about.
So I just thought it would be a good way of meeting people
that are actually part of where I'm going to work.
It was very different.
I've never been to a hiring event.
I'm more used to sort of emailing over CVs
and just waiting for an email.
But this, I thought was quite good to meet the managers
and learn more about YO!
Sushi as well.
Through this, you sort of, you know you're meeting them,
and you're getting yourself out there more
or being able to talk to the managers.
They get to know you personally as well as
sort of seeing your experience.
So I think the simplicity to apply for
and to attend a hiring event gives
everybody that turns up on the day
an equal opportunity to get the job.
We had an amazing balance of male and female
if you look around the sessions that we did today
of young and old and of all different ethnical backgrounds.
It's fantastic to see that across the free sessions today.
So today's been a really big success for us so far.
We had five of our managers from five different sites in London
all came along probably looking between two to four kind
of team member highs each really topping those numbers up ready
for the Christmas volume.
And from what I can gather so far,
it looks like each site has probably
got four or five assessments lined up
between now and next week with the aim of filling those roles,
So I think really a successful event for us.
It's opened up our manager's eyes
to kind of hiring without CVs and meeting
candidates in person.
And hopefully we're now topped up and ready for London's take
on Christmas.
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The hiring event was really refreshing
as it really opened the door to Yo for people
from all different kinds of backgrounds, ethnicities,
and a really diverse crowd came in.
Because we did a hiring event, it
meant we didn't see the candidates' CVs so it really
allowed us to see their personalities
and let that shine.
It allowed them to come in, show us what they can do.
And we made some really great hires.
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What I liked about the hiring day experience is it
allowed me to meet all of the branch managers
in a really short period.
And allowed me to sort of portray
my personality much better.
I found that the communication with me and Cash, the manager
was really, really easy.
We were able to communicate when I
could start, when my routes would be,
what days I would be working.
The speed from the hiring event and my first day working
with Sushi was really quick.
It took about a week for me to actually start working.
But my trial shift was a few days after the hiring event.
The new skills I've learned working at YO!
Sushi have probably been time management.
Because it's such a small restaurant,
I was able to sort of learn and pick up quite quickly how
to manage order when I'm getting more than one at a time
and to also be able to communicate
with all of my team members to help me do that as well.
What I like about working at YO!
Sushi is the free food firstly is a good benefit.
I love all the people I work with,
but also I like the customer base here
that enables me to sort of grow and expand
in the hospitality industry.
KK, you were fine.
[INAUDIBLE] I'm absolutely raging for it.
Thank you.
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