3 ways Dayforce can help improve your seasonal hiring

Here’s a scenario we’ve all heard before. Imagine an HR manager for a large coastal resort – let’s call her Emily. She thought she had her seasonal hiring locked in – until half her new hires dropped out before their first shift. With tourist numbers soaring and a skeleton crew scrambling to keep up, Emily realized what many HR pros know all too well: spring and summer hiring can be just as unpredictable as the weather. 

While Emily is made up, her problems sure aren’t. Whether you're staffing up for a busy travel season, outdoor events, or summer retail surges, finding and retaining seasonal talent involves strategy, speed, and a little creativity. It also demands the right technology.  

And that’s where Dayforce comes in. Let’s look at three ways Dayforce can help improve and support your seasonal hiring initiatives. 

Ensuring accurate labour planning 

When your regular staff is overwhelmed by seasonal demands, it can be tempting to see it as a numbers game. If you hire lots of seasonal workers, everything will be fine, right? Well, not necessarily. Hiring even one more or one less person than you need can have major business impacts. 

Dayforce Workforce Management makes it easy to align labour planning with business demands by empowering data-driven staffing decisions. With real-time workforce intelligence, our technology can surface coverage challenges before they lead to employee burnout and a bad customer experience. And it can help you identify whether you need to hire two people or 200.  

With a single platform to deliver this data, there are no delays or inaccuracies due to multiple siloed systems. Instead, Dayforce helps you increase operational agility and make quick, informed decisions about labour planning. This helps you save money in your seasonal recruitment by avoiding over-hiring and save time by not under-hiring. 

Recruiting smarter, not harder 

With the fast and furious pace of seasonal hiring, recruiters need every time-saving hack they can get to source the best talent fast. And Dayforce delivers in a few ways. 

First, Dayforce integrates with over 600 job boards. And you can post to them directly from within the platform, saving a lot of time compared to manually entering job posts into multiple job boards. 

Also, recruiters can’t screen every candidate. And candidates won’t apply if there’s too much friction in the hiring process. Our technology can help you make more efficient hiring decisions, which is crucial at a time when you and your competitors are vying for the same (potentially small) pool of candidates. And let’s not forget how important it is to streamline the applicant experience so they don’t walk away in frustration.  

Dayforce Recruiting helps you easily surface top candidates and speed up your recruiting process with AI-powered screening and matching tools.  

Standing out from the competition 

If you’re trying to recruit seasonal employees, chances are you aren’t alone. Competitors are ready to snatch up the same people you need for your business during a high-demand time. So, how can you stand out from the competition? 

Higher pay is often the bait of choice to lure in seasonal employees. But with today’s budget realties in an uncertain economy, employers can’t always one-up the competition with wages alone. 

Dayforce Wallet to the rescue. With our on-demand pay solution, you can give seasonal hires something that many competitors can’t – same day pay. Giving your people on-demand access to their earned wages gives them more control over their finances and helps your organization attract top talent. Given the temporary nature of seasonal employment, getting paid quickly can be appealing to these workers and help you stand out as an employer that “gets” it. 

And with Dayforce Wallet, there’s no need to worry about additional work for internal payroll teams. The solution is quick and easy to implement and doesn’t add any additional steps to the payroll process. 

In today's fast-paced hiring landscape, the right technology can make all the difference in securing and retaining seasonal talent. With Dayforce, you can turn seasonal hiring from a stressful scramble into a smooth, efficient process – ensuring your business is ready for whatever the busy season brings.