Franchise Executive Search & Recruiting
We find the hard-to-find professionals with Franchise Experience.
Because 93% of Top Franchise Talent Are nOt On Job Boards.
This is done through our Franchise Hire recruiting and executive search services.
Franchise Hire takes a consultative approach to define the needs of the position, perform diligent research, and interview all candidates before you spend a minute of your time interviewing.
In the end the candidates you interview will be able to achieve your goals, have gone through multiple review stages, and have confirmed willingness to make a career move and join your team.
Common Challenges
Recruiting Franchise Talent
Sourcing, screening, interviewing, and have the right candidate who wants to join your team is not easy.
Market Knowledge
Franchising is a nuanced industry. Understanding what translates from large franchise brands to emerging ones and the difference of title and salary expectation compared to non-franchise industries is important to decision making.
Time
You, as a Franchisor, don’t have the time to Post Jobs, Screen Candidates, Play Calendar Tag, or Conduct Countless Interviews.
Sources
Outside of job boards (Indeed, LinkedIn & Zip Recruiter), you don’t have a source for qualified candidates. Often, this may appear in hundreds of people applying for a position, but no resumes stand out with the experience needed.
Technology
Besides the career page on your website and job boards their is no additional technology or data to support locating franchise talent.
People Power
You don’t have an entire HR team or you have a team but could an extra pair of hands in the hiring process.
Process
You have an operations manual for franchisees but don’t yet have a standardized recruiting process at the franchisor level.
Why We Are Different
than Other Recruiting Firms
We create a targeted search to deliver on your unique franchise needs.
Other Firms #1: Misalignment
Some Firms place listings on job boards once retained and review only active candidates.
Our Solution
Franchise Hire runs an in-depth process for passive, network, and referral candidates.
Other Firms #2: High Cost
Some Firms Charge upto 40% of the first year’s compensation.
Our Solution
Franchise Hire Fee Will Never Exceed 25% Of Base Salary.
Other Firms #3: High Risk
Some Firms Require a 33% to 50% retainer up front
Our solution
We have a flat engagement fee that is credited back to the client.
Other Firms #4: Confusing Guarantees
Some Firms guarantees are as little as 30 days with hard to understand terms.
Our Solution
We have a minimum 90-day replacement guarantee that increases based on seniority level.
Franchise Hire
Recruiting & Executive Search Process
We help franchise brands grow their teams. We do this through our Franchise Hire Recruiting Process. This process comprehensively supports Franchisors from initial position planning to the candidates start date. It’s also designed to make the process as easy as possible on the franchisor team.
Step 1: Intro & Discovery Meeting
We connect to learn more about your brand, location, and overall goals for the role both in the short term and over the next two to three years. This will help define the position and shine light on ideal candidates.
Step 2: Craft Job Description (Position Profile)
After our meeting, we will condense our notes, perform positional research, and draft a position profile. Think of it as a robust job description.
Step 3: Source Candidates
Leveraging our network, technology, and experience we will research the market, source candidates, and present the opportunity to them
Step 4: Conduct Initial Calls With Every Candidate
Our mission is to evaluate candidates alignment with the role and goals of your brand. At the same time helping candidates determine if a opportunity is a right fit for them and their career path.
Step 5: Perform Zoom Interviews With Each Candidate
Interviews are driven by a structured yet casual video interview with Tim Katsch. This will consist of customer questions designed specifically for your role, company size and two-year plan. This enables benchmarking of key points.
Step 6: Slate of Qualified Candidates
Once we have identified candidates that have completed our interview process and that align with location, compensation, and skillset we will share further details and arrange virtual and in-person interviews with your leadership team and guide candidates through that journey.
Step 7: Background & Reference Checks
We will support validating credentials through reference conversations, and background checks. We are flexible on who performs each or both of these action items and have resources for both.
Step 8: Offer & Resignation Support
We assist in providing an offer to the candidate, explaining the compensation structure and basic benefits, clarifying questions they may have, negotiating final terms, and digitally signing the offer letter. We also support the candidate in transitioning out of their current role.
Collaborative step: franchisor & recruiter
Exclusively performed by Franchise Hire
Work with franchise recruiters
Who Know The Franchise Industry
Franchise Recruiting and Franchise Executive Search are at the core of what we do. But before the life of recruiting Tim Katsch lived as the EVP leading operations, marketing, and real estate departments for an emerging franchise brand.
He did field visits, ran franchise advisory councils, sourced real estate, oversaw construction, worked on marketing projects, ran discovery days, and prepared key items in the FDD.
Our goal as franchise recruiters is to acquire talent that delivers exponential value year after year. We do this by being being contributors to the franchise industry, knowing what questions to ask, knowing the brands that operate in the franchise space, and the individual candidates that make up those companies. In turn, we find the perfect fit!
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Our promise is not to be the jack of all trades. Rather we will focus our franchise executive search by shining light on the right places in the franchise industry to identify, attract, evaluate, and land top talent in Franchising.
We are heavily focused on data-driven decisions and digital means to communicate with the right candidates. In franchising, we have identified what we call “magnifiers” that franchise professionals present on paper, in person, and in the way they speak about the industry. We strongly believe that making a transition is not easy. Coaching we found was the best tool to support candidates in resignation, transitions and then onboarding onto a new brand. Technology, Magnifiers and Coaching set us apart from other Executive Search and Recruiting Firms.
Grow Your Franchisor Team
Meet our Success Stories
We locate franchise talent is all departments Operations, Marketing, Finance, Real Estate and Development. From Franchise Business Coaches and Marketing Managers to Brand Presidents Franchise Hire is by your side.
International Fitness Franchise
Youth Sports Franchise
Child Daycare Franchise
Finanical Services Franchise
Pet Care Brand
Studio Fitness Franchise
Restaurant Brand
Membership Model Franchise
Let Us Do The Work
For franchise recruiting & executive search
Planning The Position
We work with you to evaluate your needs, define the position, and discuss overall compensation & benefits packages.
Sourcing of Franchise Industry Candidates
We source both passive and confidentially active candidates that will be the right fit for your team based on skill sets, experience, methodologies, and overall fit.
Phone Screening of Every Candidate
We take this time-consuming aspect of recruiting off your plate. We speak with many candidates to find the few that are the right fit for your brand at your current stage.
Recruiter 1-on-1 Interviews With Each Candidate Via Zoom
We know franchising and the questions to ask that vet for knowledge, thought processes, Franchise EQ, and more in topics of Marketing, Operations, Real Estate, Construction, and Sales.
Coordinating to Offer Letter and Beyond
We coordinate interviews, background checks, reference checks, follow-up with candidates, and guide the overall process. We even support the candidate’s transition out of their current role so they can hit the ground running on the designated start date.
Locate Top Franchise Talent
Sourcing & Recruiting Expertise
Expand Your possibilities
With a Franchise Recruiter
Extend Your Search Beyond Job Boards
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Franchise career opportunities posted to job boards will receive interest from active candidates. These are people currently not employed or looking to make a transition. The advantage of working with a franchise executive search firm or franchise recruiter is you have the ability to reach out to passive candidates. These are candidates who have good jobs, get paid well and at the moment are not actively looking. These are top performers you may not traditionally have the ability to contact. A recruiter can source, reach out and present your brand as the next step in their career to align the candidate’s aspirations and the client’s perfect fit.
Meet More Franchise People Where They Are
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Simply put our daily mission is to meet new franchise friends and build strong meaningful relationships with the franchise community so that we have to ability to connect great franchise people with great organizations.
Leverage Technology To Give Your Brand An Edge
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Our Franchise Hire Recruiting Platform is an ATS and Sourcing Software made up of Publicly Available Data; API Data Enrichment from job board partners and Premium Data Sets purchased from Data Aggregators. Simply put we find a needle in the haystack by finding the largest haystacks and setting them on fire. What remains is the top franchise talent to choose from.
We Are A Franchise Focused Brand
Supporting An Industry in Talent Acquisition
We Only Recruit Within the Franchise Industry
While other executive search and recruiting companies will spread resources over multiple verticals such as Higher Education, Event Management, CX and Human Resources; we apply maximum effort to one industry; franchising.
Franchise Executive Search with Franchise Recruiters
This is a detailed exploratory process to become intimate with your organization, and its long-term and short-term plans. Then we research, source, evaluate and land the candidate who is right for your team and goals.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
We work with your internal department leads or human resources team to support a particular segment of the hiring process.
The franchise industry is vast. Search the galaxy with a Partner.
Top talent in franchising means the ones who can propel your company into the future. If you don’t find these A players; your competition will. Talent compounds for or against you. Having a partner in building your team can change which side you are on.
Common Questions
We are here to support the franchise industry. We welcome any questions in regard to the industry. Some common questions in regard to Franchise Recruiters or Franchise Executive Search are:
We have four primary sources for where candidates come into our purview
1) Connection Calls & Meetings
2) Referrals From Network
3) Franchise Events
4) Sourcing
Having a plan for when new hires will occur is key. Traditionally this will begin with your three forecast and refined in your one year budget. From here you can determine what quarter this new hire would ideally start. While a traditional recruitment process will take between 30 – 60 days its best to start conversations in advance. This will allow a recruiter to keep an eye open and put confidential feelers out, so when the time comes you can hit the ground running.
Every traditional recruiting engagement comes with a Right Fit Guarantee. This means that if it’s not the right fit for either party we will replace a candidate for no additional fee.
Working with a recruiter will vary from depending on the recruiting company and the industry. In the franchise industry we have seen fees ranging from 20% to 35% of first years compensation. Franchise Hire is on a mission to make recruiting obtainable to all franchisors. The fee will never exceed 25%.
Our Blog
Recruiting and Franchise Industry articles that have value for our clients, candidates, and beyond
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