Let us know you want to hire flexible workers with an eye to future employment. We’ll work with you to understand your requirements.
Try & Hire: Hire the right people
Get to know candidates on the job before offering them a permanent position. Try & Hire lets you assess their performance, skills, and fit with your team in a real working environment.
Reduce hiring risk before permanent employment
Hire only the right fit
Reduce hiring mistakes and recruitment costs
Try & Hire: Get to know candidates on the job
Try & Hire lets you evaluate candidates in a real working environment before offering them a permanent role. You only hire the people who are the right fit for your business and team. Coople takes care of employment and administration, while you stay in control of recruitment and day-to-day management.
How Try & Hire works with Coople
Create jobs and hire flexible workers through our platform. Build pools of favourites, set expectations, and send them regular shifts to evaluate team fit, attitude and growth potential.
After your best performers complete 540 hours of work with you, you’ll be able to hire them at no additional cost. We’ll let you know when you’re close to meeting your trial hours. If you cannot wait this long, you can hire workers directly for a fee. Our team will be happy to provide more information about this.
The right solution for every staffing need
When is Try & Hire the right choice?
Try & Hire is ideal when you want to assess candidates beyond their CV and interview. Seeing them in the role gives you the confidence to make the right permanent hiring decision.
Coople in action
Digitec Galaxus AG is Switzerland’s online market leader in the IT industry, as well as holding the title for the largest Swiss online shop. Like many companies, Digitec Galaxus AG has struggled with rising demand during the pandemic.
EVEX Rental GmbH is a leading provider of first-class rental furniture throughout Switzerland. Based in Pratteln and with a broad customer base, EVEX Rental supplies events, congresses and trade fairs throughout Switzerland and abroad with high-quality designer furniture. Whether a private party, corporate event or mega-event, the company provides first-class equipment and supports events of all sizes. Learn more about EVEX Rental GmbH.
Regus help businesses find the right way to work. For more than 30 years, they’ve helped businesses find and create the perfect workspace for their people. Their extensive network of locations enables companies of all sizes to work wherever and however they need.
Denner AG is the third-largest food retailer in Switzerland, based on revenue. At the end of 2020, Denner had 833 sales outlets across all language regions of Switzerland. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Denner was one of the main suppliers of food and consumer goods for the Swiss population’s daily needs.
Deliveroo operate dark kitchens (Deliveroo Editions) that produce food for hand-picked restaurants, all exclusively designed for delivery. These dark kitchens bring great restaurant food to many neighbourhoods, making good on the promise that got Deliveroo started: to connect you with great food from great restaurants, wherever you are, and whatever it takes.
STEF Switzerland Ltd. is the European specialist in the transport and logistics of temperature-controlled agri-food products. The company opened their new warehouse by using a responsive staffing strategy and is seeing expansion success.
Just Eat is a leading global online food delivery marketplace, connecting consumers and restaurants through its platform in 24 countries. They offer an online marketplace where supply and demand for food delivery and ordering meet.
RHIAG Group is the Italian market leader and a fast growing company in the sale of automotive spare parts. Thanks to reliable, flexible staff from Coople, the company was able to introduce new processes and reorganise its warehouses, which contributed significantly to a long-term increase in productivity.
According to Guinness World Records, Hiltl AG is the oldest vegetarian company in the world. Founded in 1898 as “Vegetarierheim & Abstinenzcafé”, the company has provided an atmosphere of friendly hospitality and excellent cuisine for 4 generations. Hiltl AG owns nine restaurants, one of which is the “Hiltl am Strand” at the lake of Zurich.
Flaschenpost, Switzerland’s largest online wine store saw a significant increase in demand after the initial outbreak of COVID-19. Within a very short period of time, the company was able to build up a favourites pool of qualified flexible workers to rely on as needed at their logistics centre in Dietlikon.
Thanks to Coople, a leading Swiss discounter found and employed more than 600 specialists across 150 stores in three language regions of Switzerland within less than 48 hours.
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. This daily newspaper is printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
In the heart of Geneva, one of Switzerland’s largest supermarket chains faced a familiar challenge: managing a large student workforce with the precision Swiss retail is known for. Coople stepped in to streamline admin, cut costs, and bring greater agility to workforce planning – highlighting the power and potential of a truly modern staffing solution.
«How can we maintain high service levels when we’re short-staffed during peak season?» It’s a question this Alpine hotel faces every year. Due to its remote location and fluctuating demand throughout the year, the challenge is clear: everything from breakfast service to events and weekend peaks needs to run smoothly, no matter the season.
SV Group operates nearly 300 sites across Switzerland – spanning staff and system catering, public restaurants in seasonal leisure destinations, and large-scale event and stadium catering. Despite having a strong internal staffing pool, the business faced a classic challenge: how can you manage staffing efficiently in an environment shaped by highly volatile revenue and varying personnel needs?
FAQ
Try & Hire
Try & Hire allows you to hire flexible workers through the Coople platform and evaluate them on the job before offering them a permanent position. You publish shifts, select the right candidates, and decide whether to hire them permanently after seeing them in action.
You publish shifts on the platform and hire flexible workers. During the assignment, Coople is the legal employer and takes care of all employment administration. You evaluate each worker on the job and then decide whether to offer them a permanent role.
After a worker has completed 540 hours through the Coople platform, you can hire them permanently with no transfer fee. We'll let you know before this threshold is reached.
Yes. You can hire a worker permanently at any time. If you do so before 540 hours, a transfer fee applies.
During the assignment, Coople is the legal employer. We take care of employment contracts, payroll, and social security administration.
Using the platform and hiring flexible workers is charged under our temporary staffing service. You can hire a worker permanently free of charge after 540 hours, or at any time before that for a transfer fee. Costs depend on the role and assignment.
Try & Hire is particularly well suited to operational roles where performance, ways of working, and team fit are best assessed on the job - for example in logistics, retail, and healthcare.
Hire with confidence through Try & Hire
Evaluate candidates on the job before offering them a permanent position. Reduce hiring mistakes and make more confident hiring decisions.
