The Recruit Genie + JOB TODAY: Hiring at Hospitality Speed
It’s Sunday night. A restaurant manager gets a text: their sous chef just took a job somewhere else, starting in two weeks. By Monday morning, that manager is doing two things at once: running service and trying to get a vacancy live everywhere it might be seen. By Tuesday, they’re checking four different inboxes for applicants. By Wednesday, half the candidates worth calling have already taken something else.
This is the version of hiring most hospitality operators know, because the tools they use weren’t built to move at the speed the industry actually runs at.
That’s the gap our new integration with Recruit Genie is meant to close.
Case Study: What Changed for Honi Poke
Before we get into how the integration works, it’s worth starting with what one of our longest-standing partners actually experienced.
Honi Poke had been hiring through Job Today for a while when they brought in Recruit Genie as their ATS. Normally, adding a new system means losing something, a relationship, a workflow, a source of candidates that worked. Instead, their team kept getting the same volume of applications they always had through Job Today.
The only thing that changed was how much easier it became to manage them, since everything now landed inside Recruit Genie automatically instead of needing to be pulled in by hand.
Recruit Genie + Job Today: How It Works
Most hospitality businesses end up running two parallel processes without meaning to. One system manages the candidates (the ATS, the spreadsheets, the internal tracking). Another reaches the candidates (the job boards, the apps, the postings). Keeping both updated at the same time, especially when a role needs filling today, is where most of the wasted hours in hospitality hiring actually go.
The integration connects those two halves directly. A vacancy created in Recruit Genie now reaches Job Today’s hospitality community automatically, without anyone needing to copy it over manually. Candidates apply through Job Today the way they always have, quickly, from their phone, without filling out a long form.
From there, every application and every piece of candidate information flows straight back into Recruit Genie, already organized and ready to act on.
Where the Real Time Savings Happen
The most noticeable change for most teams won’t be a new dashboard or a new button. It’ll be the absence of something: the time that used to disappear into posting the same role twice, exporting candidate details, or chasing down which platform a particular applicant came from.
For hiring managers who are also running a venue, that time matters more than almost anything else the integration offers. It’s the difference between spending an extra hour on admin and spending that hour actually talking to the candidate who could start this week.
For candidates, the change is just as real, even if it’s less visible. They’re applying through an app they already use, in the way they already expect to, and they hear back faster because nothing is sitting unprocessed between two disconnected systems.
Why We Built This Together
Richard Tomlinson, Director at Recruit Genie, sums up the thinking on their side of the partnership:
“Hospitality businesses don’t need more complexity. They need access to great candidates and recruitment processes that work at the pace the industry demands.”
That’s the same instinct that shaped our side of it. Paul David Bishop, Corporate Sales UK & Ireland at Job Today, puts it this way:
“Hospitality moves fast, and candidates move even faster. This integration gives Recruit Genie clients direct access to one of the UK’s largest communities of active hospitality job seekers, while keeping their recruitment process streamlined and efficient.”
Where This Goes From Here
The integration is live now, and any hospitality operator using Recruit Genie can try it without committing to anything upfront.
Whether that’s one restaurant trying to fill a single shift or a multi-site group managing recruitment across a dozen venues, the setup is the same either way: connect the two systems, and let them do the work that used to take a full afternoon.
If you’re already on Recruit Genie, this might already be quietly working in the background. If you’re not sure, or you want to see what it actually looks like for your team, reach out to recruitgenie@jobtoday.com and we’ll walk you through it.
