Retail & Hospitality

Hire people who deliver service
— and stay to grow with you.

Customer Experience Starts With Talent Experience.

Every smile, every checkout, every moment of service comes down to one thing: people.AssessFirst helps you hire and retain team members who embody your brand — while reducing turnover and training time.

Because you can’t scale great customer experience without the right talent behind it.

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Platform

Your Sector.
Your Challenges. Solved.

Your Sector’s Daily Realities:

Mass recruitment for multiple sites
Extremely high turnover in frontline staff
Need for quick ramp-up and cultural fit
Maintain brand standards across teams
HR overloaded with screening and onboarding

Speed matters. But fit matters more. We help you achieve both.

Benefits

Hire for Personality, Drive, and Fit — Not Just a Smile.

AssessFirst identifies who will thrive in service-driven environments.

We measure:

Soft Skills: empathy, communication, discipline
Cognitive Agility: Ability to adapt, manage multi-tasking
Hard Skills:language fluency, compliance basics, job-specific
Motivational Fit: customer orientation, team spirit, brand alignment

You reduce churn and create a consistent customer experience — store to store, shift to shift.

ROI

Here’s the ROI
You Can Expect

Clients in the sector report:

-46%

Onboarding time to productivity

+33%

Customer satisfaction improvement via talent alignment

+3x

Growth in internal mobility from floor to manager roles

52%

More team productivity

Platform

Scalable, Simple, Fast

Plug into your ATS / hiring kiosk / career site

Predictive scores delivered to store managers or centralized teams

Mobile-first, gamified candidate experience

Compliance-ready (EEOC / GDPR / Fair Hiring)

Works with the systems
you already use.

We’ve built native, plug-and-play integrations with over 35 of the world’s most popular HR tools

Need something custom?
Our Open API allows you to connect AssessFirst to any system you use — quickly and securely

Benefits

From Part-Time to Career Track — Support Long-Term Value

Identify natural leaders early
Reduce ghosting and early attrition
Build local talent pipelines that reflect your values

Because the best brand experience starts with how you treat — and choose — your people.

Over 3,500 companies place their trust in us

Assess
First

Deliver Service Excellence
— By Hiring Talent That Embodies It.