WHY HATS
For employers

UNDERSTAND WHO YOU'RE HIRING. NOT JUST WHERE THEY'VE WORKED.

A CV gives you somebody's history. WHY HATS helps you understand how they may work in your environment, what the role needs and what is worth exploring before you make a hiring decision.

A better first look

THE PERSON. THE PLACE. THE ROLE.

HATS does not try to understand candidates in isolation. A good match depends on all three.

Person

The WHY Profile

Understand likely working style, communication, motivations, learning preferences, strengths and what kind of environment may help somebody thrive.

Place

Your venue profile

Capture how your venue actually runs. Pace. Leadership. Teamwork. Communication. Structure. Learning. Development. The things a normal job advert rarely explains.

Role

What this job actually needs

Different hospitality roles place different demands on people. HATS adds the role requirements and practical factors so somebody is not judged on culture alone.

What you get

USEFUL HIRING INSIGHT, NOT ANOTHER SCORE TO DECODE.

The numbers stay inside the engine. You receive plain-English context that helps you prepare for a better hiring conversation.

Why this person may thrive here

What appears naturally compatible between the individual, role and environment.

Likely strengths

The ways somebody may naturally contribute on shift.

Worth exploring

Differences or preferences that are better discussed than judged.

Interview themes

Useful areas to explore when you meet.

What matters to them

Useful context around growth, learning, working style and aspirations.

Human judgement

HATS HELPS YOU DECIDE. IT DOESN'T DECIDE FOR YOU.

There is no “computer says no”. Legal or genuinely essential role requirements come first. After that, HATS looks at compatibility and turns differences into useful context. A different working style is not automatically a bad fit. Sometimes it is simply a better interview question.

Better evidence. Better conversations. Still your decision.

Pricing

SIMPLE PRICING FOR INDEPENDENTS AND GROUPS.

Start free. Move to Pro when HATS becomes part of how you recruit regularly. Talk to us if you operate across multiple sites.

Candidates join free for life — these plans are for employers only.

Switch to yearly and pay for 10 months, get 12.

Free

£0

A low-risk way to try the platform.

  • One live job
  • Basic venue presence
  • Applications, messaging and interview scheduling
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Pro

£50

per venue, per month

The standard choice. Everything a venue needs to hire, set up by you, in an afternoon.

  • Unlimited live jobs
  • AI-supported job posts
  • Candidate matching
  • Venue and team profiles
  • Add as many venues as you like, each on its own plan
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Enterprise

Let's talk

For groups who want us to set it up with them, and to agree what reporting across venues should look like.

  • Everything in Pro, for every venue
  • We onboard your team rather than leaving you to it
  • Group-wide reporting, scoped with you
  • Integrations with the systems you already run, scoped with you
  • A named person to call
  • Terms and pricing agreed for the whole group
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SPEND LESS TIME GUESSING.MORE TIME GETTING TO KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE.

Create your venue profile, post your first role and see how a different kind of hospitality hiring feels.