For retail

Hire the floor on fit.
Customers come back.

Compono is an applicant tracking system (ATS) and employee engagement platform for retailers and consumer brands hiring store teams at volume across sites. It runs the posting and the pipeline every hiring system runs, and ranks applicants on fit for the role, the store team and your brand. If rostering is the job, buy a workforce management tool.

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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 anyone opens a CV

How it shows up for retail

A store manager and two staff working the floor of a small shop in the morning

The floor turns over faster than you can interview

A store loses a keyholder, a casual goes back to study, and the manager is recruiting in the two hours a week they do not have. Every vacancy is filled by whoever is available rather than whoever fits.

Retail trade's job mobility rate was 9.4% in the year to February 2026, and 179,700 people started a job in the industry, 96,000 of them moving in from another job.

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

Every store hire costs more than the roster shows

The cost is the advertising, the manager's hours, the training, the mistakes in the first month and the sales you do not make while the position is short. None of that appears on a store's wage line.

Replacing one employee can cost between one-half and two times their annual salary, and that is described as a conservative estimate.

Source: Gallup, This Fixable Problem Costs Businesses $1 Trillion

Two stores, same brand, different numbers

One store runs well and the next one down the road does not, on the same catchment and the same range. The difference is how the team works together, which nobody measures, so head office attributes it to the manager and moves on.

Gallup's meta-analysis of more than 100,000 teams links team-level engagement to profitability and turnover.

Source: Gallup, employee engagement meta-analysis

The seasonal intake leaves no record behind

You hire 80 people for the peak, keep the good ones, and by March nobody can say who those people were, what they were assessed on, or who interviewed them. Next November the work starts from nothing.

Time and wages records have to be kept for seven years under the Fair Work Act. The hiring evidence behind them usually lives in a manager's inbox.

Source: Fair Work Ombudsman, record-keeping

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

Compono Hire

An applicant tracking system (ATS) built for store-level hiring

Like any ATSJob templates, applications and pipeline stages, per store
And what only Compono findsThe few worth interviewing, ranked on fit

Hire lets head office build the job templates with the culture benchmark inside them, and store managers run their own hiring from a phone, collecting every application that arrives. Each applicant is also profiled and ranked on fit for the role, the team and the brand before anyone opens a CV. The Coffee Club put QR codes on store counters and fed the talent pool that way.

See how Compono Hire works

Compono Engage

An employee engagement platform that compares store with store

Like any engagement platformSatisfaction scores and response rates, per store
And what only Compono findsWhat the strong stores do differently

Engage runs the staff survey and reports a satisfaction score per store. It also measures culture across 12 validated dimensions, current against the culture your people say the work needs, then cuts it by location, division and tenure. That is how you find what the strong stores do differently and hire for it.

See how Compono Engage works

Compono Develop

A learning management system (LMS) for induction that finishes

Like any LMSInduction assignment, signatures and refresher dates
And what only Compono findsWhether the new starter is ready for the floor

Develop assigns the induction path by role, handles the food-handling or safety refresher before it lapses, and shows the manager progress without them chasing it. The signatures an induction folder collected sit on the person's record, and assessment inside the path says whether the new starter is ready for the floor.

See how Compono Develop works

Wherever you operate

Written for a chain in Australia or New Zealand, and it works the same way in a market you are about to enter.

What it is	Australia and New Zealand	Everywhere else
Where the roles go	SEEK and the major Australian and New Zealand job boards, plus your careers page and shareable job links	The same posting flow covers the boards you already use in other markets
How stores get access	Store and area managers get their own permissions, so head office sets the template and the store does the hiring	The same structure covers a market run by a country manager
Certificates that expire	A food safety supervisor certificate or a first-aid ticket recorded as a competency with its expiry date	A Food Hygiene certificate in the United Kingdom recorded the same way
Where your data sits	Built and hosted in Australia and New Zealand, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified	Data is hosted in Australia and New Zealand wherever your team sits

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 a full applicant tracking system (ATS): job templates, multi-board posting, applications in one pipeline and a ranked shortlist. Retailers usually buy it for the ranking, because collecting applications was never the hard part. Choosing between them quickly, store by store, is.

That is the normal setup. Head office owns the templates and the culture benchmark, and managers get permissions to post a role, review the ranked list, interview and move people along. The consistency is built into the template, so a store cannot accidentally hire against the brand.

Yes, and the part that pays off is what happens afterwards. Everyone who applied stays in your talent pool with their profile intact, so next peak starts with a ranked list of people who already fit rather than a fresh ad spend.

Yes. Engage segments results by location, division, job level and tenure, so you can put two stores beside each other and see where the way they work differs. That is the input to a hiring benchmark rather than a report.

No, and it does not do payroll or award interpretation either. Those are process problems your workforce management system handles. Compono sits beside it and answers who to hire and how the team actually works.

It depends on headcount rather than store count. From 100 to 500 people, one product runs circa $7k to $13k AUD a year depending on the band, and a second product comes down by about 30%. The bands are published on the pricing page.

Head office is Brisbane, with offices in Christchurch, London and New York. Data is hosted in Australia and New Zealand wherever your team sits, and the platform is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified. Roles post to SEEK and the major Australian and New Zealand boards, and the same posting flow covers the boards you already use in another market.

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