In hospitality, finding the right role shouldn’t feel like a full-time job. But for many candidates, it still does.
For Av aka ‘Jabron potatoes’ the search for her next opportunity started in a familiar place… and with a familiar frustration.
📥 Applications in, silence out
Like so many in the industry, Av was using traditional job boards to explore new roles. Applications went in. Time and effort followed. But responses?
““Before Candid I was mainly using platforms like Indeed to look for work. The biggest frustration by far was the ghosting. You’d put time into an application and just hear nothing.”
Av, Front Of House @ Sandwich Sandwich
It’s a cycle that’s all too common – one that leaves candidates feeling overlooked, and the process itself feeling impersonal.
💬 From black hole to back & forth
When Av joined Candid, the experience shifted immediately. Instead of sending applications into a void, she was having real conversations from the start.
No CV tweaking. No trying to “fit” a job description. Just a more natural way to connect.
“Compared to Indeed, Candid felt much more human… there was actually a conversation happening.”
And without the pressure of a CV upfront, the process became what it should be – about people.
🧩 No names, no bias, just you
One of the biggest differences? Anonymity. For Av, it created something she hadn’t experienced before in job hunting: a level playing field.
“As a South Asian woman with an ethnic name, I do think there’s an unconscious bias that can happen before an employer has even spoken to you. The anonymity on Candid felt like a level playing field, which is something I hadn’t really experienced before when job hunting.”
Av, Front Of House @ Sandwich Sandwich
By putting conversation first, Candid allows candidates to be judged on what actually matters – their experience, energy, and personality.
That shift didn’t just change the process – it changed how Av showed up in it.
“It let me just show up as myself. It puts the candidate in the driver’s seat in a way that job hunting rarely does.”
✨ When it just clicks
Among the opportunities that came through, one stood out straight away: Sandwich Sandwich. From the very first interaction, there was a clear sense of alignment. The culture, the team, the environment – it all clicked early.
That’s the difference when hiring starts with conversation, not just credentials.
Now stepping into her new role as a Front ofHouse Team Member, Av is joining a business where she can bring her experience, continue learning, and be part of something that feels right.
It’s the kind of move that doesn’t just fill a role – it builds a career.
🌍 Bigger than one hire
Av’s story highlights a bigger truth about hiring in hospitality: The issue isn’t a lack of great candidates. It’s the way they’re being discovered.
When the process is one-sided, slow, and built around CVs, great people get missed. But when you flip that – when you prioritise conversation, remove bias, and give candidates control – you get better matches, faster.
💡 One conversation > 100 applications
The right hire shouldn’t take dozens of applications. Sometimes, it just takes one good conversation.
And that’s exactly what Candid is built for.
👋 Want hiring that feels human again?
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