str market mapGrowing vacation rental management companies need to scale hiring across housekeeping, maintenance, reservations, and operations roles quickly, but lack in-house HR teams and cannot afford the percentage-of-salary fees charged by traditional recruiting firms.
Better Talent is a US-based outsourced recruiting platform built exclusively for the vacation rental and short-term rental industry, combining a proprietary talent database with a subscription model that replaces search firm retainer or contingency fees.
Clients post roles through a self-service hiring portal and access a database of over 600,000 STR-specific talent profiles, from frontline housekeepers and maintenance technicians to reservations specialists and senior operations leaders. Better Talent handles job description creation using STR-specific role templates, advertising, initial screening, behavioural scoring, and applicant tracking, delivering a managed pipeline without the client needing internal recruiting infrastructure. A flat subscription fee replaces per-hire markups.
Vacation rental management companies scaling across multiple roles or markets who need to hire quickly without building an internal HR function, replacing or supplementing traditional staffing agencies that charge percentage-of-salary placement fees.
Listed on STR Market Map, the short-term-rental software marketplace.