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For hospitality

Hire for the floor.
Keep them past summer.

Compono Hire is an applicant tracking system (ATS) for venues, groups, franchises and clubs that hire at volume and lose people at volume. It runs the posting and the pipeline any hiring tool runs, and finds fit, so a duty manager sees who will still be there in March. If award interpretation is the job, buy a rostering platform.

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Compono Hire · Candidates
Senior accountant25 candidates
Ranked on
Organisation fit 55%Quals 30%Skills 15%
NameFitStage
1Jerrell Padberg82Interview 1
2Virgil Van Dyke78Invited
3Matilda Hauck78Invited
4Jackie Dev78Talent pool
5Anna Boden74Talent pool
JPJerrell PadbergWork personality1 of 8Coordinator
Coordinator

Aligns with the team on responsiveness and customer focus. Lower on individual autonomy than the current team average.

Ranked before the trial shift

400 stores across 9 countries hiring to one standard

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4 staff to more than 70, across more than 50 markets

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4.8 out of 5 on CapterraISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified

How it shows up for hospitality

A cafe team working the counter and the pass during the morning service

People leave here faster than anywhere else

Accommodation and food services recorded the highest job mobility of any Australian industry in the year to February 2026, at 15.4%. The rate across all industries was 7.2%. A venue is never hiring once.

Two full recruitment cycles a year for roles the roster budgets for one.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Job Mobility, February 2026

The kitchen roles you need most are the hardest to get

Cook sits in national shortage on the 2025 Occupation Shortage List, with Chef, Senior Chef and Pastrycook in regional shortage. Posting the ad harder does not produce a chef.

A capped covers count, and pressure on whoever stayed.

Source: Service and Creative Skills Australia on the 2025 Occupation Shortage List

A casual workforce means hiring never stops

There were 2.4 million casual employees in Australia in August 2025, 19% of all employees, and venues run on that pool. Most of those hiring calls get made by a manager at the end of a shift.

Fast decisions with nothing on file about how the person actually works.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Characteristics of Employment, August 2025

One brand, a different feel in every venue

Jobs and Skills Australia puts retention at the centre of shortages in service roles, alongside pay and conditions. Retention is a local story, and head office sees the averages rather than the two venues driving them.

A guest experience that swings by postcode, and a brand promise you cannot hold.

Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025 Occupation Shortage List

Everything a good system tracks.
And what only Compono finds.

Compono Hire

The applicant tracking system (ATS) that finds fit before the trial shift

  • Like any ATSJob-board posting, applications and a standing talent pool
  • And what only Compono findsFit against the role, the team and the venue

Hire runs volume hiring from one pipeline fed by SEEK and the job boards, with a standing talent pool you can invite from the moment a shift gap opens. Every candidate is also scored against the role, the team and the venue, so a manager is choosing between people rather than reading resumes.

See how Compono Hire works 

Compono Engage

The employee engagement platform that shows how each venue really runs

  • Like any engagement platformEngagement scores and response rates, venue by venue
  • And what only Compono findsWhy good people leave one venue and stay at another

Engage runs the staff survey and gives you the score for every venue. Culture is then measured across 12 dimensions, current against desired, venue by venue. You find the two sites where good people are leaving for reasons nobody wrote down on the way out.

See how Compono Engage works 

Compono Develop

The learning management system (LMS) that finds the gap behind the completions

  • Like any LMSInduction assignment, completions and certificate currency
  • And what only Compono findsThe gap behind the completion

Develop delivers induction, food safety, service standards and role training the same way in every venue, with certificate currency recorded against the person rather than in a folder behind the bar. Assessment inside the pathway shows the gap behind the completion.

See how Compono Develop works 

Compono helped us create a consistent hiring process, which allows us to deliver a consistent customer experience.

Nikki Ward, Group HR Manager · The Coffee Club

400 stores across 9 countries

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A venue staff member finishing a drink behind the bar during service

The floor decides whether a hire works

Wherever you operate

The certificates change name by country. The way Compono records them does not.

What it isAustralia and New ZealandEverywhere else
Responsible service of alcoholRSA certificates recorded against the person as a competencyPersonal Licence in the UK and state alcohol certifications in the US, recorded the same way
Food safetyFood Safety Supervisor certificates held with their expiry dateFood Hygiene certificates in the UK and food handler cards in the US, held the same way
Job advertisingPost to SEEK and the major job boards straight from HirePost to the boards your market actually uses
Security and hostingISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, with data hosted in Australia and New ZealandData is hosted in Australia and New Zealand wherever your team sits
AccessSingle sign-on with your identity provider, and integrations scoped per customerThe same setup wherever your team sits, with our partners page listing who we work with

What it costs

Indicative pricing by size band starts at circa $5.5k AUD a year for one product; every organisation in a band sees the same numbers.

See pricing by size band 

One platform, one engine.

Hire, Engage, Develop and Assure share the same validated behavioural science engine, so what you learn about people in one product informs the next. People decisions backed by behavioural science and AI.

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Compono Hire

A. Okafor, senior account manager

Culture Fit91%
Job Fit86%

88% overall fit

Compono Engage

Delivery team, 16 of 16 responded

InnovativeRisk Averse
ResponsivePlanned
CurrentDesired2 of 12 shown

3 of 12 dimensions misaligned

Compono Develop

Site supervisor, 42 people in the role

Safety leadership88%
Coaching others44%

68% capability held

Compono Assure

Working at heights, 38 people hold it

Verified competency recordCurrent

Renewal due 14 Mar 2028

Four products, one behavioural science engine.

Common questions

Yes. Compono Hire is an applicant tracking system (ATS) built for venues that hire at volume. It runs the pipeline from advert to offer and keeps every applicant in one place. What it adds is the fit read: each applicant profiled against the role and the venue team, so the shortlist is ranked on evidence.

That is the normal setup. Head office builds the job templates and the standard, and venue managers run hiring against it from a phone. HR sees every requisition and every hire across the group without approving each one.

Yes. You can hold a talent pool of people who have already applied and already been profiled, then invite from it when a shift gap opens. That is how a group refills quickly in December without starting from a blank ad.

Yes. Certificates are recorded against the person with an expiry date, so currency is visible by venue and by role. Compono records and reminds. It does not issue the certificate or interpret an award.

One account, with each venue as its own hiring location. You set the templates and the standard centrally while hiring happens locally, and reporting rolls up by venue, state, brand or region. A single venue can be live in days and a whole group usually takes a few weeks. Franchise groups use the same structure.

No. Compono does not roster, interpret awards, run payroll or handle timesheets. It sits beside the platform that does, and handles the part that one cannot: who to hire, and what your people can actually do.

Pricing follows a size band, so every organisation in a band sees the same numbers. Under 100 people, one product sits around $5.5k to $6.5k AUD a year, and a second product comes down by about 30%. The pricing page carries the detail.

Compono is built and hosted in Australia and New Zealand, and the postings and the certificate records are written to travel. Data is hosted in Australia and New Zealand wherever your team sits. The certificate changes name by market, and the way Compono records it does not.

Talk to us about hiring for your venues.

Tell us how many venues you run and what keeps falling over. We will show you the part of the platform that fixes it, on a pipeline like yours, and say so plainly if rostering is the real problem.

Rudy Crous, Compono's CEO, speaking on stage at a Compono event in Sydney

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