In late November, early December a group of hospitality businesses in the Hawkes Bay, Manawatu and Wellington were offered access to the JobCafe talent pool of job seekers to test the value of the Hospitality Group concept. The focus has been on giving the businesses direct access to a source of talented hospitality industry job seekers. So far the concept has been well received.

JobCafe has successfully signed up tertiary institutes WelTech, UCOL and EIT to profile the web site to hospitality graduates and students as a place to start their hunt for employment.  JobCafe also receives a large number of registrations from talented hospitality job seekers already out there in the workforce.

PeopleNet General Manager, Malcolm Perry, commented that "Using the internet for recruitment is the way of the future. We expect the Hospitality industry to quickly realise how affordable and simple the JobCafe solution is to use and how easy it is to find great staff without having to spend a fortune on advertising and recruiting through traditional channels."

JobCafe is New Zealands best online talent pool system boasting some 11,000+ job seekers registered. The site uses talent pool technology, developed by PeopleNet, to capture job seeker profiles and make them directly available to Employers.