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Founded:
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talentReef
2006
Denver, CO
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70,000+ live locations
Cloud
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talentReef At A Glance
Product Overview
TalentReef is a talent management solution that provides recruiting, training, employee self-service and performance management functionalities to companies in the service-based industries. The focus of the review will be on its social recruiting and ATS platforms.
TalentReef’s social recruiting and applicant tracking solutions offer a mobile-optimized experience for service-based companies and their job applicants. Rather than job applicants stopping at the store to pick up a paper application, they can easily apply for the job from any device.
TalentReef helps streamline the hiring process by providing customizable workflows, automatically collecting demographic data for compliance purposes, and by sending out real-time status notification by email or text. Job applicants benefit from a career-branded website that includes a shorter application process.
There are other benefits to talentReef, such as:
- Easy to use interface with minimal training needed
- Flexibility for any-sized organizations, from a business with a single location to a company with multiple franchises
- Robust social recruiting platform for promoting jobs and reaching out to candidates in a variety of sources (social media, referrals, email campaigns, etc.)
- Custom assessments that determine if applicant is best fit for a position
- Built-in mobile onboarding tools
- Automated forms and tools that help companies stay in legal compliance
Features
The social recruiting platform allows companies to recruit passive and active candidates through a variety of ways, such as referrals, job boards, social media sites, email campaigns and text campaigns. The platform includes a content management system for building customized career pages and job postings. Recruiters can also leverage search engine optimization (SEO).
A unique feature of talentReef’s applicant tracking system is its three assessment tools. The first tool, Pre-Q, lets recruiters set the minimum requirements of the position, such as education. The second tool, Posi-Fit or position fitness, provides applicants questions regarding their qualifications, experience and other metrics. Finally, the Integrated Assessments tool gives applicants a score on their behavioral and/or attitude traits.
The onboarding tool is mobile friendly, so new hires can fill out the required paperwork from any device. To make the onboarding process more efficient, talentReef provides conditional logic, pre-populated form fields and onboarding task checklists. Companies can customize their own onboarding forms. TalentReef offers pre-employment forms, such as background check release forms or I-9 forms, so employers can stay in legal compliance.
TalentReef’s reporting and analytics features help companies measure their hiring efforts. The data fields have roll-up visibility that provide an organization-wide overview of their data, while providing relevant and restricted access to locations and franchises. Reports can be either scheduled or performed on an ad-hoc basis. The solution also includes real-time best practice reports on various key performance indicators, including recruitment source, applicant flow comparisons, I-9/E-Verify compliance and more.
Target Market
TalentReef targets companies in the service-based industries that employ a large hourly workforce, such as restaurants, convenience stores, grocery stores, retail, hotel and hospitality, and warehouse.
Here’s a list of several of its clients:
- Boot Barn
- Focus Brands
- Weigel's
- LBA Hospitality
- Gelson's Markets
- Hansen's IGA
- HuHot
- Twin Peaks Restaurants
- Huddle House
- Altitude Fitness
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Implementation/Integration
The implementation process takes four to six weeks, depending on client’s size and complexity. TalentReef provides weekly online training at no cost.
TalentReef integrates to third-party applications through its API Gateway. Some of those applications include job boards, social networking sites, background check companies, credit reporting agencies, payroll and HRMS vendors.
Customer Service & Support
Users can access the support center to find how-to articles and tutorial videos. They can also contact talentReef by email, live chat or phone.
There’s also a dedicated support page for job applicants.
Pricing
TalentReef’s pricing is based on per-employee or per-location. It doesn’t publicly display pricing information, so you’ll have to contact the company directly for a quote.

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TalentReef serves a specific niche, which is the large hourly workforce in service-based industries. Companies in other industries or that employ salaried workers may want to look at a different ATS.
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About
TalentReef is the No. 1 provider for social recruiting and talent management systems specifically built for the hourly workforce. As the market leader with more than 70,000 sites under contract, including the world’s best known and best run brands, the company streamlines how fast-paced operators find, hire, train and manage their most valuable asset — talent.
TalentReef’s mobile-optimized HR platform (social recruiting, ATS, onboarding, training and development, performance management and analytics) is transforming the way millennials are connecting on-demand with employers globally. Leading companies across multiple service industry verticals trust talentReef to optimize their operational and HR functions on a daily basis.
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