Case Study: Bird Dog Equity Partners streamlines recruiting across 10 companies and cuts onboarding to 15 minutes with Arcoro

HR Leader Supports Ten Companies with Help from Arcoro

Bird Dog Equity Partners, a Sioux Falls–based private equity firm managing ten hospitality properties across six states, faced fragmented HR as one HR leader, Kristi Baumgartner, supported recruiting and onboarding for multiple locations. Inconsistent recruiting practices, time-consuming seasonal hiring and onboarding (1–2 hours per new hire), and paper-based processes created visibility gaps and compliance risk.

Bird Dog implemented Arcoro’s Applicant Tracking System, Onboarding and Performance Management to standardize hiring with reusable job “Teamplates,” kiosk onboarding and automated communications. The changes let managers post jobs in minutes to 300 job boards, cut onboarding to about 15 minutes, enabled hiring 92 employees in three days after an acquisition, and delivered better visibility and tracking across properties—improving HR, Accounting and Operations.

Bird Dog Equity Partners

Kristi Baumgartner

Human Resources Manager