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Food and Drink Applicant Tracking System

For Food & Drink businesses seeking to ferment a culture of excellence and innovation, Eploy is the secret ingredient. Discover how our Applicant Tracking System can transform your recruitment process and enrich your workforce.

Marstons
Brewdog
Samworth Brothers
Avara
Yeo Valley
AM FRESH
Bidfood
Melton Foods
The Cornwall Bakery
Kettleby
Bradgate Bakery
Walkers
North British Distilley
Marstons
Brewdog
Samworth Brothers
Avara
Yeo Valley
AM FRESH
Bidfood
Melton Foods
The Cornwall Bakery
Kettleby
Bradgate Bakery
Walkers
North British Distilley
Marstons
Brewdog
Samworth Brothers
Avara
Yeo Valley
AM FRESH
Bidfood
Melton Foods
The Cornwall Bakery
Kettleby
Bradgate Bakery
Walkers
North British Distilley

Leading Food & Drink brands rely on Eploy

Key Features for Food & Drink sector hiring

Whether you need to master volume recruitment and efficiently hire quality candidates at scale - casual, graduate or temporary opportunities, you’ll find Eploy to be the most adaptable talent acquisition technology that consistently delivers the results you demand.

  • Volume Recruitment

Mastering High-Volume Recruitment in Food & Drink

Efficient Solutions for Large-Scale Industrial Hiring Needs

  • Advanced Search & Filtering ► Quickly filter and identify suitable candidates
  • Automated Email & SMS Marketing ► Boost candidate engagement and response rates
  • Job Posting and Distribution ► Expand reach to find ideal candidates rapidly
  • Drag-and-Drop Pipelines ► Simplify management of candidate progression
  • Unlimited Configurable Hiring Workflows ► Customise processes for diverse roles efficiently

Eploy manages high-volume recruitment in the Food & Drink sector, ensuring a streamlined process to keep up with industry demands.

  • Hiring Managers

Enhance Recruitment Efficiency with Manager-Led Approaches

  • Hiring Manager Portal ► Enable direct recruitment involvement by managers
  • Configurable User Interface ► Adapt the recruitment platform to specific needs
  • Interview Scheduling ► Coordinate interviews efficiently
  • Feedback Surveys ► Gather actionable insights for continuous improvement
  • Real-Time Reporting and Analytics ► Track recruitment performance and make data-driven decisions

Eploy enhances hiring manager involvement, offering tools for direct recruitment contributions, improving decision-making and hire quality.

  • Seamless Onboarding

Simplify the Transition from Candidate to Valued Team Member

  • Customisable Onboarding Processes ► Personalise onboarding experiences for new hires
  • Electronic Signatures ► Expedite the signing of critical documents
  • Self-service Candidate Portal ► Empower new hires with direct access to resources
  • Secure Data Collection ► Ensure the protection of sensitive employee data
  • Compliance Document Management ► Manage legal documents efficiently and compliantly

With Eploy, integrating new hires into the Food & Drink industry is streamlined, ensuring quick, compliant onboarding and contributing to business success.

  • Ensuring Compliance

Robust Compliance and Legal Adherence in Recruitment

  • Multi-Level GDPR Consent Management ► Ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance
  • Data Retention Policies ► Manage candidate data according to legal standards
  • Audit Trail ► Maintain transparency in recruitment activities
  • Right-to-Work Checking Integration ► Efficiently verify candidate work eligibility
  • Compliance Document Management ► Organise and access compliance documents effectively

Eploy guarantees that recruitment within the Food & Drink sector adheres to the highest compliance standards. From GDPR consent management to right-to-work checks, Eploy’s tools provide the assurance needed to navigate the regulatory landscape effectively.

  • DE&I

Diversity-Driven Recruitment Strategies for a Dynamic Industry

  • Social Media Integration ► Utilise social networks for broader candidate reach
  • Employee Referral Programmes ► Leverage internal networks for diverse referrals
  • Job Boards & Aggregator Integration ► Access a wide range of candidate sources
  • AI-Powered Candidate Matching ► Match candidates accurately to role requirements
  • Talent Pools & Skills Library ► Build a reservoir of readily available talent

Eploy's strategies ensure the Food & Drink sector attracts a varied and skilled workforce, essential for innovation and growth.

 
Case studies

Discover how food & drinks talent acquisition teams achieve their hire purpose with Eploy

At Eploy we've transformed Talent Acquisition at many leading Food & Drink organisations, take a look at some of our recent client success stories and case studies.

Eploy FAQs

Frequently asked questions about how Food & Drink organisations can benefit from an Applicant Tracking System.

An Applicant Tracking System for the Food and Drink sector is a recruitment platform that helps restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs, catering companies, and food manufacturers manage job applications, streamline hiring, as well as onboard and secure qualified candidates faster.

Eploy goes beyond the traditional recruitment framework. Our features allow for an agile approach so you can flex and evolve your recruitment process. Whether you need name-blind applications, a multilingual solution, multiple workflows, or specific requirements on your careers site for multiple brands or business functions, we understand it's your recruitment process, so we can do things your way.

An ATS system automates job posting and CV screening, streamlines the process of scheduling interviews, and manages candidate communication. All of this saves time and reduces the time to hire for front-of-house, kitchen, and production roles.

Due to the high volume of applications organisations in the Food and Drink industry often receive, using recruitment software helps manage the volume of candidates. For recruiters, an ATS also helps reduce admin work, speed up onboarding, and ensure compliance with GDPR requirements.

Yes, most ATS platforms integrate with popular scheduling, HR, and payroll tools, making staff onboarding and shift planning seamless. Visit Eploy’s Marketplace to find what software Eploy’s ATS can be integrated with.

ATS features like CV screening, candidate engagement and onboarding can help organisations in the Food and Drink industry reduce employee turnover by improving hiring quality, matching candidates to the right roles and providing a better candidate and onboarding experience to reduce the number of early dropouts. Read this case study from Samworth Brothers.

Yes - and because we know each business is different, our features allow for an agile approach so you can flex and evolve your recruitment process. Whether you need name-blind applications, a multilingual solution, multiple workflows, or specific requirements on your careers site for multiple brands or business functions, we understand it's your recruitment process, so we can do things your way.

Eploy supports a ''name blind'' recruitment process, which allows certain candidate information (name, gender, ethnicity etc.) to be removed from applications during candidate assessment. Ensuring a non-biased recruitment process. Eploy also has award winning recruitment analytics to measure your Diversity and Inclusion programme with real-time, secure data driven dashboards. 

Eploy integrates with HMRS, Accounts & Payroll systems as well as leading background screening & checking providers, to name a few!

With the Eploy API, you can connect the tools you use daily to our talent acquisition platform and deliver amazing experiences for everyone involved in the recruitment journey. Eploy's API enables customers and partners to build custom apps and enhancements to Eploy's Talent Acquisition platform.

We have a Partner Marketplace so you can extend your recruitment capability faster and smarter.

We solve the challenges of Food / Drink / FMCG talent acquisition

Recruitment in the Food / Drink / FMCG industry comes with unique challenges. These can be addressed by understanding the most effective candidate sourcing channels for the sector and anticipating potential changes in hiring levels throughout the year. Eploy helps recruiters in the Food / Drink / FMCG industry tackle these challenges and streamline their recruitment processes to achieve the results they need.

What channels do Legal recruiters use for sourcing candidates?

In-house teams specialising in Legal sector recruitment primarily rely on three main channels - Careers Sites (93%), Employee Referrals (92%) and Events (85%) for finding candidates for vacancies.

54% of in-house Legal recruitment teams within the sector make use of Agencies for help in filling their jobs, which has reduced from last year (63%). The use of Agencies can have a major impact on a company's cost of hire.

Source: 2025 UK Candidate Attraction Survey

Which sourcing channels work best for the Legal sector?

When we look at how recruiters for the Legal sector are approaching talent attraction, the Sourcing Quadrant shows us which channels are working best to deliver quality and quantity of candidates. Employee Referrals stand out as the leader on candidate quality. Professional Social Networks, like LinkedIn, and Agencies also provide a great quality of candidates and take the lead when it comes to candidate volume.

Having a great careers site is one of the ways that can attract a decent quantity and quality of candidates, yet the channel falls a little short in the Legal sector, despite being the most used channel in the sector (93%). Candidate experience is key and can work to nurture relationships and make successful hires.

Source: 2025 UK Candidate Attraction Survey

How will levels of hiring in the Legal sector change in the next 12 months?

Legal sector recruitment levels are expected to remain the same across the course of the year, according to 80%. And only 20% of respondents are expecting the hiring levels to grow over the year. In line with anticipated stagnation of hiring levels, recruitment marketing budgets are also not expected to grow in 2025, with 67% expecting no change and 20% anticipating a decrease, which could make it challenging to attract more skilled candidates with fewer marketing resources available to them.

It's important that all involved in the recruitment process have access to simple, streamlined tools that allow them to recruit on the go. That's why, with Eploy - as well as getting an award-winning Legal Applicant Tracking System, you get a dedicated hiring manager portal and agency portal that's so easy to use and provides a unified platform for recruiting (and measuring).

Legal recruitment hiring challenges

Recruiters in the Legal Sector face several hiring challenges - scarcity of qualified candidates (73%), building a diverse and inclusive workforce (40%) and forecasting recruitment needs/demand planning (27%).

Having the ability to regularly monitor and measure the effectiveness of sourcing channels becomes all the more important to counteract the challenges faced. We know from the report findings that those who have an active metrics and analytics programme report a greater quality of the candidates they attract.

With Eploy, you get complete recruitment analytics built in. You can create dashboards that measure and monitor, in real time, every aspect of your hiring process, providing valuable insight for improving your hiring function.

  • What channels do Legal recruiters use for sourcing candidates?

    Finding talent

  • Which sourcing channels work best for the Legal sector?

    Improve your advertising

  • How will levels of hiring in the Legal sector change in the next 12 months?

    Do more with less

  • Legal recruitment hiring challenges

    Solving hard problems

Here's what Food & Drinks recruitment teams are saying about Eploy

  • “We selected a partner that we believed could help us to deliver our next steps in resourcing and have been working with Eploy to build our People Portal Resourcing offering for the Group. Eploy provided a robust sandbox testing environment that enabled us to evaluate and rigorously test everything before going live. The feedback from our hiring managers has been positive, as the Eploy platform is very intuitive and increases the visibility and ownership of their vacancies. The system implementation has embodied our value of ‘Making Things Happen’, and we absolutely ‘Take Pride’ in our recruitment achievements to date.''

    Kate PrimeGroup Resourcing Partner

  • “We now have a solid foundation on which to continually build our recruitment journey to find passionate people to join our family. Already candidates have provided great feedback on the look and feel of the changes we have made.”

    Sam FordRecruitment Specialist

  • “Bidfood’s ways of working are complex, and at every turn, Eploy have made the impossible, possible. With their support, we’ve ended up with a recruitment offering to both our hiring managers and candidates that we didn’t think would be possible.”

    Sophie FarnsworthHead of HR Projects

  • “We had clear timeframes and despite our complex structure were able to deliver this project on time. The robustness of the process and support we received from Eploy gave us the confidence to launch the system for all businesses at the same time. This is the only system that we have installed in the Group as a “Big Bang” launch.''

    Kate LeeTalent & Resourcing Manager

  • ''The team at Eploy were with me every step of the way of implementation and explaining how things can be built and what they've got coming up on their roadmap. The customer success team are brilliant and always able to help and provide advice in quick fashion. Simple and intuitive candidate management functionality. Easy to use job distribution. Configurable workflows and communication along with integrated e-sign and meeting scheduling.''

    Graham JamesonRecruitment Specialist

  • ''Reflecting on our journey to improve the hiring experience and journey for both candidates and across our business, we’re proud to have delivered a robust and scalable direct hire model, with candidate experience at the heart of how we operate. Supported by Eploy’s recruitment automation, we’ve streamlined decision making and boosted process efficiency. These improvements have not only elevated the quality of hire but also embedded best practice recruitment standards across the organisation, raising capability and confidence at every level.''

    Graham JamesonRecruitment Specialist

UK Candidate Attraction Report 2025: FMCG Spotlight

The UK Candidate Attraction Report 2025: FMCG Spotlight offers an in-depth analysis of the sector sourcing channels, challenges, priorities, and more for planning your candidate attraction strategy with actionable insights.

The report is available for free! Request your copy today.

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“Bidfood’s ways of working are complex, and at every turn, Eploy have made the impossible, possible. With their support, we’ve ended up with a recruitment offering to both our hiring managers and candidates that we didn’t think would be possible.”

Sophie Farnsworth

Head of HR Projects

Ways we support our Food & Drinks Sector customers

Learn more about how Talent Acquisition teams in the Food & Drinks Sector benefit from using Eploy.

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