High-volume hiring, without the high-volume headache.
When you need to hire 50 seasonal staff before peak season, or fill 20 store manager positions across locations, you can't afford a slow ATS. Treegarden is built for volume, speed, and the reality of retail hiring.
Retail hiring is different
The problems every retail HR team knows by heart.
Volume. Speed. Inconsistency. Chaos on day one. Retail and hospitality hiring has a specific set of challenges - and generic ATS tools were not built for them.
You receive 300 applications for a weekend supervisor role. Reviewing them one by one takes days you don't have. Most of them don't meet basic requirements, but you can't know that until you've opened each file.
Your peak season window is 6 weeks. If time-to-hire slips past 3 weeks, you're understaffed on your busiest days. There's no buffer, no second chance - the window either closes with people in place, or it doesn't.
Hiring managers across 8 locations are all doing their own thing. No consistency. No visibility. No standard process. HR finds out a role was filled - or lost - two weeks after the fact.
Someone joins on Monday. By Wednesday they don't know who their manager is or where the locker room is. Onboarding is a pile of paper forms and verbal handoffs - and turnover begins before the first shift ends.
Built for volume
Five features that change how fast you hire.
Bulk CV Upload
Upload up to 50 CVs in a single action. Treegarden's AI parses every file automatically - extracting name, contact details, work experience, and skills - and creates a candidate record for each one. No manual data entry. No copy-pasting between tabs.
Drop 50 CVs here to upload
PDF, DOC, DOCX - up to 20MB each
Parsing in progress…
Custom Auto-Reject Screening
Define your screening criteria once per role - "must have 1+ year retail experience", "must be available weekends", "must hold a valid food hygiene certificate". Every applicant is evaluated automatically against your rules. Unsuitable candidates receive a professional, personalised rejection email. You see only the candidates worth interviewing.
Screening results - Floor Supervisor (Brighton)
9 Job Boards in One Click
Post your role to Indeed, LinkedIn, Adzuna, ZipRecruiter, Jooble, Trovit, BestJobs, eJobs, and Talent.com simultaneously. Wider reach means more applications, faster. No logging into each platform separately. Manage everything - edits, closures, performance data - from one place.
Posting to job boards
All 9 boards - one click to post
Kanban for Multi-Location Teams
Every hiring manager sees the same visual pipeline. Different pipelines per location, per role, per department. Candidates move through stages with drag-and-drop. No status-update meeting required - everyone knows exactly what's happening, in real time.
Pipeline - Store Supervisor (All locations)
Applied (14)
Interview (5)
Offer (2)
Fast Interview Scheduling
When you need someone interviewed today, you can't afford a two-day email exchange about availability. Candidates self-schedule via a Calendly link sent directly from the platform. Google Calendar and Outlook sync automatically. Interviewers get a notification; candidates get a confirmation. Done.
Interview slots - Tuesday 4 March
Get them working faster
Hired on Friday. Ready on Monday.
Candidate accepts offer
Their employee record is created automatically. No re-entry of data that's already in the system.
AI generates onboarding checklist
Tailored to the role: uniform collection, ID check, food hygiene briefing, POS system access, training schedule. Every task assigned to the right person.
Documents sent for signature
Contract, handbook acknowledgement, consent forms - all digital, all tracked. No lost paperwork.
Leave management from day one
Annual leave entitlement, absence tracking, and shift management are active from the first day. No separate system to set up.
"Your seasonal workforce deserves a real onboarding - not a pile of paper forms and a vague handwave toward the break room. Treegarden gives every new hire a structured first week, and gives you one less thing to manage manually."
Candidate to employee. One platform. No re-entry.
Multi-location teams
One HR team. Eight locations. Full visibility.
Treegarden gives head office the oversight it needs, without removing autonomy from store-level hiring managers.
Separate pipelines per location
Each store or venue has its own hiring pipeline. Hiring managers see their candidates; HR directors see everything, across all locations, in one dashboard.
Role-based access control
Six configurable user roles. A store manager can progress candidates through their pipeline, but cannot see another location's applicants or adjust company-wide settings.
Analytics by location
Which locations have the longest time-to-hire? Which job boards deliver the best applicants for your Edinburgh store versus your Bristol one? The data is there to answer those questions.
"We hire 200+ seasonal staff every summer. Before Treegarden, processing applications took a full week of solid work. Now I upload the CVs, set the screening rules, and by the end of the day I have a shortlist. What used to be 5 days is now about 6 hours."
5 days
to shortlist 200 candidates - before
6 hours
to shortlist 200 candidates - now
200+
seasonal hires per summer
Everything you need
Everything you need for retail hiring. Nothing you don't.
Fill your roles before peak season. Not after.
Get started today and see how Treegarden handles volume - or book a demo and we'll walk through your specific hiring workflow.