Pictured above: Service with a smile at Strada in Leamington Spa, with (from left) Stuart Mockford, managing director or Kaonix Solutions, Claire Clarke, head of recruitment and policy at the Tragus Group, Jenna Stokes, account manager at Kaonix Solutions, and Nick Hoad, HR director at the Tragus Group

Kaonix Solutions has announced a major new deal to provide a top restaurant group with its state of the art recruitment management system.  

Kaonix  - the UK's leading recruitment technology experts - confirmed that the Tragus Group have committed to using the highly innovative web-cruit system for the next three years.

The system, which was developed by Kaonix at its headquarters in Meriden, near Coventry, leads the way for online recruitment solutions.

Tragus is the owner and operator of well-known High Street restaurant brands such as Bella Italia, Café Rouge and Strada. Formed in 2002, it is one of the UK's largest independently owned restaurant operators with over 290 sites serving over 21 million meals every year.

Nick Hoad, HR director at the Tragus Group, confirmed that the company had signed a new three year agreement with Kaonix, extending their existing relationship.

He said: "Tragus is the first hospitality operator to use the web-cruit system and we have worked in partnership with Kaonix to pioneer and develop the tool.

"Web and internet recruitment has been at the forefront of our recruitment strategy since Tragus began and with Kaonix we intend to stay one step ahead of the market. Since changing our supplier to Kaonix and upgrading to their web-cruit system we have never looked back." 

Claire Clarke, head of recruitment and policy at Tragus, said: "Consistently over the past three years we have reduced our average cost per placement by almost 70%. In the same period the proportion of hires being made through recruitment agencies has been reduced from 15% to 5%, representing a further significant saving. Coupled with the excellent relationship we enjoy with Kaonix, the decision to renew was a simple one."

Mark Keane, product manager at Kaonix, said: "Tragus have embraced online recruitment and social media wholeheartedly and have not been afraid to challenge their established recruitment processes. Kaonix enjoys a true partnership relationship with Tragus and they are clearly reaping the benefits of their approach."

"It is no coincidence that in addition to the significant savings Tragus have achieved, their group career site - www.traguscareers.co.uk - was recently awarded recruitment website of the year at the prestigious Catersearch awards."

Mark added: "Businesses today are looking for efficient, scalable, cost-effective ways of improving their online recruitment processes. For many, doing so has become mission critical; without better, quicker, simpler processes they know they will lose out on the best talent and fall behind their competitors.

"web-cruit sits at the core of our Talent Management Solutions, providing customers with a way of attracting the best talent and managing applications - from automated filtering and tracking to individual scoring - that delivers an outstanding return on investment. web-cruit is remarkably easy to use. It can be quickly configured to our customers' exact requirements and can handle any number of applications perfectly."

"It also comes with a suite of reports that quickly and clearly analyse performance to show exactly where recruitment activity works best. web-cruit enables customers to enhance their employer brand, streamline and simplify their online recruitment processes, and pinpoint where their recruitment activity is working best.

As a highly efficient, scalable and easy-to-use vacancy management and applicant tracking system, web-cruit puts an array of useful functions at customers' fingertips.

With web-cruit you can:

• Enhance your employer brand.

• Advertise vacancies quickly and easily.

• Manage your recruitment agency suppliers.

• Channel applications from all sources into one place and speed up time to hire.

• Identify issues in advance.

• Reduce advertising and agency costs.

The system is flexible and vacancies can appear in social media and other websites within minutes. Applicants also have immediate access to job opportunities across the 285 sites operated by Tragus.  

Established in 2000, Kaonix is the UK's first and leading provider of end-to-end online recruitment management solutions to a diverse range of organizations, large and small. To discuss your requirements call on 0845 604 4006.