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How Can You Improve Recruiter Productivity with Automation?

We recently ran a Bullhorn Automation webinar and "automating productivity" was the topic.There's always room for improvement in recruitment, whether it be speedier sourcing, stronger BD, quicker time to hire, or stronger relationships driving stronger accounts.However, with too much tech and data, and not enough automation, recruitment is often an "everything, everywhere, all at once" sector. And being more productive just means working longer hours, or buying more tech that you haven't got the time to get ROI from.Automation Is a Time MachineAutomation isn't new - we've had it since the dawn of time. But in recruitment, it's a recent game-changer!Smart! Automation can create a super-smart recruitment process. Warm! Automation can keep your candidates and clients happy (and warm).Sustainable! Automation can make you and your team and time more sustainable.Along with our Bullhorn Productivity Tips for Recruiters webinar, we ran this webinar which was devoted to automation and how it can be used to help recruiters and their leaders improve productivity. I chatted about at least 5 automations you can build straight away which will drive speed, pipeline, and happiness.Watch my latest Bullhorn Automation webinar where I explored how to use Bullhorn Automation to:Treat your Bullhorn database like a community (not a data dump).Reduce reliance on expensive 3rd party systems like LinkedIn Recruiter and Job Boards.Help your recruiters become more organised and effective.Shortlist candidates at speed - nice!Watch Our Automated Productivity WebinarAutomation, Training, Bullhorn1stWe're a passionate team of recruitment, tech, training professionals set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses, big and small, improve speed and pipeline.For help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1stculture, and Recruitment Training...CONTACT US
How to Get Your Recruitment Data Clean and Automated

Our next Bullhorn Automation webinar is Friday 26 Jan 12:00-12:30 GMT, and"data health" is the theme.Automation is helping recruiters improve productivity, sales, and sourcing, whilst reducing reliance and cost of 3rd party systems like LinkedIn and Job boards. Yippee! But often, the health of your data can seem like a big hill to climb before you can begin benefitting from automation… You bet we have some ideas to help you clean up your recruitment data so that you can increase speed and pipeline with automation.How to Cleanse Your Data so You Can Automate In our next automation webinar we’ll talk about tools and techniques you can use to get your data ship-shape, clean, and healthy, so that automation can do some serious heavy lifting for you. This is a great webinar whether you are curious about automation, are just starting out with automation, or have automation already but want 2024 to be a success!We don't want any of you lovely recruiters not automating as you feel your data is the barrier. Data is your gold, your oil - it's a precious resource. It lasts longer than your employees (sorry) but it also gets in the way of a sustainable recruitment business. Stats to Focus You on Cleaning Your Recruitment DataManage your candidate and client data well and you make money from it. Manage your recruitment data poorly and the tech giants make money from you! (Linkedin / Job Boards.) Data degrades at 2% / month (a huge 25% a year). Dirty data can reduce revenue by 12%. Effective use of CRM can boost sales by 29% and productivity 34%. Let's get your data clean, and automated!Can't make the date? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording.REGISTER HEREAutomation, Training, Bullhorn1stWe're a passionate team of recruitment, tech, training professionals set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses, big and small, improve speed and pipeline.For help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training...CONTACT US
How Can You Place More Candidates Quicker?

I recently spoke in Bullhorn’s Connected Recruiting Series. The topic was “Connected Recruiting: Attract, Engage, Onboard, and Nurture Your Talent Like Never Before”. They wanted my insight into how to nurture your current recruiting database and increase redeployment rates.Recruitment tech has evolved in the 24 years I’ve been in the recruitment industry. In recent years, my team have enabled over 400 recruitment businesses to do what we call "Bullhorn1st" and automate their sourcing, screening, sales, and placements. I’ve seen and learned a lot about data, recruitment, automation, tech, and what makes for a profitable recruitment process.Here are the highlights of what we discussed on the webinar and you can watch the webinar here.1. Too Much Data, Not Enough PipelineRecruiters often have great data (often too much data) and are not monetising it.They are sourcing it, advertising for it, buying it, scraping it, gathering it, storing it, but not nurturing it into sustainable fees.They are reliant on systems outside of their CRM and this creates lag, cost, and risk.Is this you?There’s not enough strategy in managing their data. There’s not enough focus.Data isn’t seen as valuable unless it has value today! Candidate applications and client leads often fail to convert, if not converted immediately. And often recruiters have way too much data to manage. Dunbar’s theory is that you are limited to the number of relationships that you can actively maintain. Recruiters need to get real with their data.2. All the Gear, No Idea!Plus, often there’s not enough specialist knowledge (or confidence) for recruiters to speak about their niche in the spaces where your candidates and clients are.The majority of millennials and GenZs expect an omni-channel approach, not just phone and email. Read Bullhorn's Grid report for more insight on this.Why are recruiters often silent where their communities are?Is it because recruiters have too much data and not enough process? Perhaps!They may not understand how to manage their data, or engage with these “new” channels, and opt for a “start at the top” and “get on the phone” approach.That strategy isn’t sustainable when the average recruiter has thousands of records which they are supposed to manage and monetise. Plus, even if they have the tech which could drive a great experience, they haven’t always had the training they need to use this tech.The volume of data recruiters have access to, and the tech they are expected to communicate with, has created something beyond a mere numbers game.Distraction, FOMO, and procrastination are rife. Plus, there’s still an unnecessary reliance on LinkedIn and job boards which drives up cost, slows you down, and enables your competition to sneak past you.3. Leads Generated – Sales SuppressedI’ve also learned that recruiters are great at lead gen… but often not so great at converting these leads.Leads, on average, last 48 hours. It takes on average 8-15 interactions to convert – BUT 85% of recruiters give up after 3 attempts.Again, this numbers game and lack of tenacity, process, and urgency is generating more losses than wins.4. It's All About the Journey, and Dunbar!What’s the fix?I see too much effort at the start of the candidate and client relationship, whether it be adverts, application acknowledgements, screening, job qualification. I see nowhere near enough engagement and nurturing after “hello”. Again we have a lot to learn from Dunbar.Why? This is normally down to 3 things:Too much data.Not enough process.A lack of understanding of what candidates and clients want (and need).AI and automation will really help you kick the butt of points 1 and 2 above. Bullhorn’s recent GRID report tells us what candidates expect and helps you with point 3, too:62% of candidates quit when the process takes “too long” – and in my experience this is often down to a lack of expectation management (and communication).60% of candidates expect weekly contact from recruiters.¾ of candidates expect to be placed in a new job within 4 weeks.And most of them will expect communication beyond email – via an omnichannel approach.TakeawaysData = Asset: Treat your data like your most valuable asset. Less hoarding, more placing.Get real: Understand the limits of what a recruiter can do with their day and data. Less is more.Monetise: Use tech to keep data warm and monetise it. Give your community what it wants!Free up: Use tech to free up your recruiters to do what they are paid to do.You can watch all of Bullhorn’s Connect Recruiting series here. Automation, Training, Bullhorn1stWe're a passionate team of recruitment, tech, training professionals set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses, big and small, improve speed and pipeline.For help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training...CONTACT US
Automation Mythbusted - The Reality of Recruitment Automation

Recruitment automation (not to be belittled by the mere "marketing automation") is allowing many recruiters to save money, time, headspace, and...Weaponise their data.Speed up their placements.Sell more. Plus more...But like all advances in tech, there are myths and legends which surround it.Myths like:It's a time-consuming beast of a project.You need a full-time employee to implement it.Once live it's a full-time job to manage it.If you can't go "big bang", don't bother!I chatted with Wayne (AKA "The Automator") and Jay (from Bullhorn) about these myths versus the reality. What is the reality of implementing recruitment automation?Automation Myths... Busted!We chatted about:What really happens during an implementation?What do you gain (and what do you lose) when you automate?How can you start your project with a small number of powerful automations to give you breathing space and reduce reliance on expensive 3rd party systems like LinkedIn Recruiter and Job Boards?What does a good "cadence" of automations look like?This short myth-busting video is a must-watch for recruiters big, small, and cute, who need head space, easier and cheaper sourcing, reduced reliance on Linkedin and job boards, stronger pipelines, and happier recruiters.Watch our "Automation - Mythbusted" Chat Automation, Training, Bullhorn1stWe're a passionate team of recruitment, tech, training professionals set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses, big and small, improve speed and pipeline.For help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training...CONTACT US
Bullhorn Productivity Tips for Recruiters Webinar

Our next Bullhorn Tips webinar is Friday 08 Dec 12:00-12:30 GMT, and it's all about the hot topic of Productivity.Recruiters and their leaders are always looking for ways to improve performance, whether it be marginal gains, or drastically improving sourcing speed or risky pipelines. If you have Bullhorn, you have the "gear" - data and system. But do you actually have "all the gear and no idea?" ie. the "process" is lacking?An "everything, everywhere, all at once" process makes for a time-consuming and risky pipeline.Are You A Cool Tool? We think that the coolest tool is the recruiter, but: Up to 80% of your working day is spent on activities with little or no value. The average recruiter spends over 2 hours procrastinating every day. Multi-tasking is rife in recruitment, but it actually decreases your performance by 15%.What a waste! Join the Barclay Jones team in our next Bullhorn Tips webinar. We're going to show you some neat hacks to help you improve productivity and performance, with Bullhorn. Can't make the date? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording. REGISTER HEREPS. If you have automation, or are thinking of investing in it, register for our next automation webinar here we will give you at least 5 ideas on how to automate to improve productivity. Read more here.Recruitment TrainingThis webinar is part of a series of recruitment trainings in Recruitment HIIT, our online recruitment training platform.Our training helps new and experienced recruiters qualify their jobs, speedily source and advertise, and improve their screening. It boosts CV to interview ratios, whilst giving great tips to prevent counter offers, and secure the placement and beyond.Plus, if you have Bullhorn, Analytics, Automation, SourceBreaker, LinkedIn, Calendly, Teams, Daxtra, Broadbean, idibu, Hinterview, Paiger, Adapt, we train on those too!TRY HIIT FREE HERE
Bullhorn Turbo Sourcing Tips for Recruiters Webinar

Sourcing - what a dark art it is! Time zapping, Expensive external systems needed, Countless job adverts.... ...Only to attract candidates you already have? 72% of placements made are from your own data - but many recruiters only find this out after they've sourced / advertised externally. No, thank you! Let's stop wasting an average 13hours a week on this task, and instead learn some neat tricks to help you source from Bullhorn first. This Bullhorn tips webinar beautifully complements our recent sales tips webinar.We cover:Speed: How to use Bullhorn to source speedier than if you sourced externally.Smart: Some really smart ways of searching Bullhorn so you are super quick, and clever!Watch Our Bullhorn Sourcing Tips WebinarAlternatively, you can:Waste money sourcing from multiple expensive websites (Linkedin and Job Boards need your cash!)Admit defeat by advertising your jobs. (Let your clients know you do not in fact have a viable candidate pool.)Lose out on placements by creating unnecessary lag and risk in your process.Recruitment TrainingThis webinar is part of a series of recruitment trainings in Recruitment HIIT, our online recruitment training platform.Our training helps new and experienced recruiters qualify their jobs, speedily source and advertise, and improve their screening. It boosts CV to interview ratios, whilst giving great tips to prevent counter offers, and secure the placement and beyond.Plus, if you have Bullhorn, Analytics, Automation, SourceBreaker, LinkedIn, Calendly, Teams, Daxtra, Broadbean, idibu, Hinterview, Paiger, Adapt, we train on those too!TRY HIIT FREE HERE
Sourcing Turbo! How to Use Automation to Speed Up Sourcing

Sourcing can be an incredibly time-zapping task for recruiters.We often hear:I've got too much data but not enough candidates!All The Gear, No Idea?In my previous automation webinars, I covered automated BD and account management. Get my automated sales tips here:5 ways to drive, secure, and optimise your accounts, and5 key sales-driven automations to help you focus your attention on generating real sales opportunitiesBut what's the point of winning more sales opps, if you can't speedily place them?If you have Bullhorn automation, this should help you:Speedily clean up your data.Identify relevant candidates you can attract and nurture.Approach candidates to apply for your jobs.Watch my latest Bullhorn Automation webinar where I explored how to use Bullhorn Automation to:Add turbo to your sourcing with warm, monetised data.Reduce reliance on expensive 3rd party systems like LinkedIn Recruiter and Job Boards.Use Bullhorn 1st for sourcing, hence increased speed, placements, and sales.Watch Our Automated Sourcing WebinarAlternatively, you can:Continue sourcing from multiple expensive websites (Linkedin and Job Boards need your cash!)Advertise your jobs. (Let your clients know you do not in fact have a viable candidate pool.)Create unnecessary lag and risk in your process resulting in less placements and less fees.Automation, Training, Bullhorn1stWe're a passionate team of recruitment, tech, training professionals set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses, big and small, improve speed and pipeline.For help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training...CONTACT US
MS Teams Tips for Busy Recruiters

Whether you have MS Teams as your video / chat platform, or you need to use it when a candidate or client sends you a link to a Teams meeting, you need to nail this crucial tech.Simply using Teams for the odd chat or video call, and pressing Join and Leave is not smart. Knowing how to use it to communicate, screen and sell is critical. Don't allow the tech to let you down.MS Teams Tips for Smart Recruiters... Nail your Comms, Screening, and SalesWe've launched our new HIIT workout for you lovely recruiters. It's focused on helping you look cool, be productive, save time, and nail your screening and sales calls. We've got Teams tips like:Chat on turbo (no time to waste!)Mute distractions (focus on what's important).Listen to chats (reading is so yesterday!)Stalk - How to get notified when someone comes out of a meeting. (So you can pounce on them!)Engage with Polls, Praise, and other super-engaging Teams features.Screen and Sell with our "Beast Your Meeting" workout.Look younger! Oh! And it can take years off you with its "soft focus" setting too!If you're an existing HIIT client login and complete the workout.Want a free trial to see how HIIT can help improve speed and pipeline?CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE TRIALRecruitment TrainingThis video is part of a series of recruitment trainings in Recruitment HIIT, our online recruitment training platform.Our training helps new and experienced recruiters qualify their jobs, speedily source and advertise, and improve their screening. It boosts CV to interview ratios, whilst giving great tips to prevent counter offers, and secure the placement and beyond.Plus, if you have Bullhorn, Analytics, Automation, SourceBreaker, LinkedIn, Calendly, Teams, Daxtra, Broadbean, idibu, Hinterview, Paiger, Adapt, we train on those too!TRY HIIT FREE HERE
10 Ways to Generate More Sales with Bullhorn and LinkedIn, Recruiters!

Recruiters!I know that this year has been a tough one for some of you, so our next webinar is all about increasing sales.If you have Bullhorn it should be first for sales, sourcing, candidate management, and client retention.And do you also have a free LinkedIn licence? Of course you do!10 Ways to Increase SalesIn our last webinar we covered 10 Things to do in Bullhorn Before 10am.This recruiter training webinar is focused on Sales. Everyone in recruitment sells, whether they are in a pure BD role or a resourcer / recruiter.In this recruiter tips webinar we covered:How to use Bullhorn to increase sales.How to use LinkedIn to increase sales.This webinar is crucial for any recruiter who uses Bullhorn or LinkedIn. Just one of our tips could help make a placement and secure a client.Plus, our LinkedIn sales tips are focussed on the free account. You do not need a Recruiter licence to generate leads and sales from LinkedIn. Watch Our Bullhorn and LinkedIn Sales Tips for RecruitersPS. Be sure to check our other Bullhorn blogs, and try our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT, for free.Need to Source on Turbo?Register for our next Bullhorn tips webinar - we're going to show you some neat sourcing tips!REGISTER HERERecruitment TrainingThis video is part of a series of recruitment trainings in Recruitment HIIT, our online recruitment training platform.Our training helps new and experienced recruiters qualify their jobs, speedily source and advertise, and improve their screening. It boosts CV to interview ratios, whilst giving great tips to prevent counter offers, and secure the placement and beyond.Plus, if you have Bullhorn, Analytics, Automation, SourceBreaker, LinkedIn, Calendly, Teams, Daxtra, Broadbean, idibu, Hinterview, Paiger, Adapt, we train on those too!TRY HIIT FREE HERE
Need to Optimise Your Recruitment Accounts? Get Automating

Recruitment sales - BD and account management - are top goals for recruiters, not just this year but every year.But this year has been an especially tough year for sales for many recruiters. Downsize? Scale? I'm OK?Whether you are downsizing, or trying to scale, you need an automated account management process. Being complacent about sales, or bashing the phones in panic, does not make for a sustainable stress-free recruitment business.If you have Bullhorn Automation, or are considering it, there's plenty it can do to help you drive, secure, optimise, and maximise client relationships.BD is great - but account management may be better! Who wants cold, when you can be HOT?!5 Ways to Drive, Secure, and Optimise Your AccountsOur last Bullhorn Automation webinar focused on Sales. I covered why you need to automate sales, and some ideas for how to automate. Watch it here.In my next webinar I zoned in on the clients you already have - the current and lapsed - and explored how you can drive them smarter with automation.Plus - your key goal with automation should be to improve recruiter productivity. You need to generate some serious heat from your Bullhorn data. This will help create focus and revenue-generating activity.Watch my latest Bullhorn Automation webinar where I explored how to:Automate your BDStrengthen your client relationships (and pipeline)Reduce reliance on third-party systems, andImprove recruiter productivity and happiness!And I talked about 5 of my favourite automations to help you turbo boost your account management and thus sales!Watch Our Account Management Automation WebinarWe have plenty more Automation Training, and Bullhorn Training on our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT.CLICK TO TRIAL HIITAutomation, Training, Bullhorn1stWe're a passionate team of recruitment, tech, training professionals set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses, big and small, improve speed and pipeline.For help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training...CONTACT US
No Need for LinkedIn Recruiter... Free LinkedIn is a Winner!

Even the most experienced recruiters often don't get real ROI from LinkedIn, and this forces them to invest in the paid-for versions. Meanwhile, lots of time and money wasted outside of their CRM searching the one place that competitors and clients have access to - not smart! Reduce the Cost of and Reliance on LinkedIn Recruiter!Many of my clients are looking for ways to be more effective and save money on tech subscriptions.Recruitment HIIT has some fantastic recruitment training, as well as Bullhorn Training, Adapt Training, SourceBreaker Training, Analytics Training, and Automation Training. Plus, HIIT has a great LinkedIn course which one of our clients recently calledthe antidote to LinkedIn Recruiter! LinkedIn Training to Improve Speed and Pipeline......and Reduce the Need for LinkedIn RecruiterWe've got some great LinkedIn tips to help you get the most from the free version of LinkedIn which can also help reduce the need for LinkedIn Recruiter. (Wasting less time and money is a good goal to have! )Score! We look at the LinkedIn scoring system so you get seen by more candidates and clients. All Star! We show you how to create an “all-star” profile so you generate more opportunities - more candidates, more clients, more ops, more sales, more time!Contact monetisation: And we have some cool hacks to connect with and monetise the best candidates and clients - and to help you generate more of a community that you can then sell to!Lead generation. Who needs LinkedIn Recruiter when we have tips to help you speedily generate leads, with 1 hand, on the free version of LinkedIn? And how about sourcing and advertising? Oh, Yes, we have some nifty tips to help you source from Linkedin, when your CRM doesn't deliver the talent you need.If you're an existing HIIT client login and complete the workout.Want a free trial to see how HIIT can help improve speed and pipeline?Click here for your free trial
How Can Recruiters Improve Performance? Get on the Phone!

Recruiters can always improve their performance, whether it be marginal gains or drastically improving failing pipelines. Right now is the time to dig deep and ask:Where can I improve my recruiter performance? AndWhat part of my recruitment workflow can I improve?Recruitment Research: Phone Calls Are a DownerI spent time with Josh Symons from Hinterview. Hinterview has completed some interesting recruitment research to help recruitment leaders and their recruiters focus on where and when they need to get mean and lean in their recruitment workflow! We chatted about how and where recruiters can improve their recruiter performance.Josh and I talked about:With all of the recruitment technology available, how can you keep the recruitment process human?Where in the recruitment life cycle can recruiters improve their performance?How can video improve recruiter performance?Phone calls work IF you want and mean them to – but how?How can a recruiter generate heat?What’s Daley Thompson’s decathlon got to do with recruitment?Why does recruitment technology often not work in recruitment (hint – it’s got the word “training” in the answer)What are 85% of male recruiters also doing when they are most engaged with their mobile phones?Recruitment leaders and recruiters – you want your phone calls to work! Get at least one takeaway to help you improve recruiter performance and nail those phone calls.Watch the trailer of my vodcast with Josh...The full vodcast, along with other great sales and recruitment and Hinterview training, can be found on our training platform Recruitment HIIT.SIGN UP FOR YOUR FREE HIIT TRIAL

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