Retail & consumer – high volume recruitment
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To find your best candidates, consider your best customers.
As a talent leader at a retail and consumer company, you know what it means to focus on the customer. But did you know that same focus gives you an edge in recruiting?
By thinking of your customers and candidates as one, you’ll create a hiring experience that sets your organization apart in this competitive industry.
Cielo makes high-volume hiring personable. Combining mobile technology and intelligent automation, we hire the best candidates at volume, speed and scale – with style.
Our high-volume recruitment strategy delivers a candidate experience that reminds applicants why they love your brand and why it’s the perfect place to work.
Industry depth. Broad expertise.
People will drive your business forward, and we know how to find them. We serve retail and consumer companies in the following industries:
- Hospitality: Restaurants, lodging and resorts, travel agencies and services, and accommodations.
- Retail & luxury: From apparel and furniture to pet products and toys. Our partnerships extend to luxury retailers, as well.
- Transportation services: Airlines, airports and air services, and rail, bus and taxi providers.
- Leisure sports & recreation: Recreation, entertainment, sports, tourism and related products.
- Packaged goods: Food, beverage, cosmetic and cleaning product providers.
Our solutions. Your advantage.
Retail & consumer solutions
Talent Acquisition
Finding the right talent for the job is more important than ever – and more competitive. At Cielo, we give you the people, processes and technology to get ahead.
- High Volume RPO uses mobile tech and intelligent automation to put the most qualified candidates in front of hiring managers at the speed, scale and cost you need.
- Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) offers a dedicated team to fill roles faster, attract top talent, and boost efficiency.
- TA Optimizers™ augments your strategy where and when you need it – services for every stage, including planning, sourcing, interviewing, offer, and post-offer.
- Contingent Workforce provides expertise and market insights to bring the right people to work whether gig, temporary or retained.
Consulting
Turn talent into your bottom-line advantage. Our consultants put you on the front edge of talent with bold strategies for a noisy world. Get results, not reports.
- TA Strategy & Transformation implements and integrates processes with technology for impact.
- HR Technology resolves issues to improve HR technology vendor selection.
- Employer Branding & Talent Marketing attracts the right candidates and engages employees.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion supports building a diverse workforce and inclusive culture.
Search
Find the visionary leaders you need. Cielo’s search team turns the opaque, costly and time-consuming business of traditional search into a transparent, real-time, cost-efficient service.
- Executive Search identifies and secures the individual with the exact skills and experience needed.
- Executive Search Outsourcing provides a dedicated team of experts to find leaders faster.
- Project Search secures the right talent under tight timelines or temporary surges in hiring.
- Research & Insight delivers actionable reports to better inform your hiring decisions.
Digital Accelerators
Don’t just automate talent acquisition, improve. Our Digital Accelerators suite combines AI with human intelligence to power better outcomes and experiences for all.
- Cielo Source & Engage prioritizes the best talent from major platforms while creating better experiences.
- CLO.ai turns time-consuming TA tasks into better results, faster.
- Cielo Insights generates actionable insights to improve your recruitment and retention performance.
Recognizing excellence
3 clients win 2022 CandE Awards
Three Cielo clients, Froedtert Health, Messer and Walgreens are 2022 Candidate Experience (CandE) Award winners.
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Clients & leaders named 2024 HRO Today HR Superstars
The 2024 HRO Today HR Superstars list spotlights eight Cielo clients and leaders for excellence in talent acquisition.
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5 clients win 2021 CandE Awards
Five Cielo clients, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celanese, Grifols, Messer and Waste Management are 2021 Candidate Experience (CandE) Award winners.
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Our people make all the difference
To find your future people, we partner with your current team. Our retail and consumer experts will drive results now — and set you up for success in the future.
Barry Diamond
Senior Vice President – Business Development, Cielo
Barry Diamond
Senior Vice President – Business Development, Cielo
Holly Russell
Senior Vice President – Client Services, Retail, Consumer & Business Services, Cielo
Holly Russell
Senior Vice President – Client Services, Retail, Consumer & Business Services, Cielo
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We're frequently asked...
- Hospitality: Restaurants, lodging and resorts, travel agencies and services, and accommodations.
- Retail & luxury: From apparel and furniture to pet products, toys and luxury retailers.
- Transportation services: Airlines, airports and air services, plus rail, bus and taxi providers along with transportation infrastructure.
- Leisure sports & recreation: Recreation, entertainment, sports, tourism and related products, vehicle rentals, sports teams, amusement parks and fitness facilities.
- Packaged goods: Food, beverage, cosmetic and cleaning product providers.
- Consumer services: From childcare and cleaning services to landscape and photography services.
Cielo specializes in high volume recruitment for retail and consumer employers. Through our High Volume RPO offering, we deliver:
- Programmatic advertising
- Assessment and matching
- Interview self-scheduling
- Nurturing and communication
- Reporting and insights
In addition to high volume recruitment, we also provide Consulting services to level up your talent acquisition strategy. Our services include:
The four main challenges facing retail and consumer companies are:
- High labor costs: In a job seeker’s market, good talent comes at a high cost. The cost is even higher for talent with specialized skills.
- Upskilling workers: Consumer markets leaders recognize that differentiated customer experiences start with superior employee experiences that motivate talent.
- Incorporating AI: Retailers are rapidly introducing AI to streamline their processes. That means they need workers with technical skills – or the capacity to learn them.
- A rise in input costs: The retail and consumer industry is battling against rising input costs that make it harder to prevent pass-through to consumers.
Working with a partner like Cielo, which has experts in both talent acquisition and the retail industry, will help you overcome these challenges. Because remember, having the right talent is core to your business success. We make retail recruiting more efficient and effective. We’ll help you create better experiences and outcomes – for candidates and hiring managers in the retail space.
High volume recruitment is a strategy where an employer hires many applicants, often hourly talent, within a short period of time. Working with a talent acquisition partner is a great way to overcome common challenges that accompany high volume recruitment, including high competition for talent and an inconsistent candidate experience.
At Cielo, our High Volume RPO solution offers your business:
- A technology-first approach to high volume recruiting
- A dedicated support team to ensure your ongoing success
- The ability to scale effectively with your seasonal business needs
- Artificial intelligence to incorporate science into the selection process
- Ease of use and time savings with a mass recruitment process
- Integration into existing talent acquisition systems
- Reporting and visibility for senior stakeholders
- High-volume recruitment sourcing and recruitment strategies
Retail recruiting is the process of finding, attracting, and hiring quality candidates to fill roles in a retail organization. Often, this involves high volume recruitment – recruiting large volumes of candidates, often hourly, that are the right fit for the team and company.
Retail recruiting presents unique challenges: high competition for talent, difficulty in managing candidate experience, hiring is often left to managers with many other tasks, to name a few. Working with a partner like Cielo, which has experts in both talent acquisition and the retail industry, will make retail recruiting more efficient and effective. We’ll help you create better experiences and outcomes – for candidates and hiring managers in the retail space.
Cielo’s High Volume RPO solution gives you everything you need for high volume recruitment. Find your top talent by combining mobile technology and intelligent automation to hire them at volume, speed and scale. This high-volume strategy delivers a great candidate and hiring-manager experience.