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Recruiters need more phone time. In fact, “Why can’t they just get on the phone?” is the common mantra of many of the recruitment leaders that we work with.
World events, a deluge of data and systems, and holes in recruitment sales pipelines, means that picking up the phone has never been more important.
The recruitment process has become unfit. Too much data and too many systems makes the recruitment process sluggish at best…
In fact 72% of placements made last year were with data you already had on your Bullhorn Recruitment CRM before you sourced it elsewhere. 13 hours a week spent sourcing candidates you already have… crazy! (Source: Bullhorn / LinkedIn)
We have some cool Bullhorn Tips and Training on our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT. Our goal is to help recruiters improve their time management, sales and sourcing “fitness”.
Let’s take some measurements first, Recruiters!
5 Vital Stats to Focus You On Recruitment Sales Fitness
Improving your sales pipeline can be time consuming… But the data says a lot about where you need to focus your recruitment training, and time.
It takes on average 18 calls to engage a new client.
50% of your leads are likely to be a poor fit for you.
80% of leads need at least 5 follow ups before conversion.
The probability of selling to existing customers = 60-70%. Whereas new clients = 5%!
Recruiters who use their CRM (Bullhorn) effectively can improve productivity by 34% and sales by 29%
Recruiters Need to Get Fit for Phone Calls and Sales!
Our Recruitment HIIT on demand Recruitment training is designed for time-starved recruiters to take control of their sourcing and sales effectiveness and make small but effective changes to their workflows in 5-10minute videos.
To get you started, here are three 1-minute tips you can use to help you get sales-fit and make more of those critical phone calls!
1. Bullhorn Tip - Start-up Screens to Start Your Day with Speed
Try our super easy 1-minute Bullhorn tip to help you save time and stay focused so that you can spend more time on the phone, managing your candidates and clients, and placing faster.
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2. Bullhorn Tip - Sell What Your Contacts Desire
Try our desirable Bullhorn 1-minute tip to help you easily sell more candidates to your clients.
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3. Bullhorn Tip - Silver Medal Recruitment - Easy Placements
Try our sterling silver Bullhorn 1-minute tip to help you easily place more candidates. Winner!
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Recruitment HIIT - The Best Recruitment and RecTec Training
Along with a wealth of the best recruitment (perm and temp) training, our Bullhorn HIIT series helps recruiters and resourcers to:
Navigate around your Bullhorn CRM speedily to save time.
Turbo boost your candidate sourcing strategies.
Improve BD, account management, and your client relationships
Effectively and speedily manage your jobs and placement process.
And all the while focussing on using Bullhorn first to improve the way you source, engage, nurture, and place your candidates.
If you're an existing HIIT client login and complete the workouts.
Want a free trial to see how HIIT can help improve speed and pipeline?
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Recruitment Training
This 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 Analytics, Automation, SourceBreaker, LinkedIn, Calendly, Teams, Daxtra, Broadbean, idibu, Hinterview, Paiger, we train on those too!
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Crucially, it includes:Scripted Responses: Suggested brief, professional phrases to use when a counter offer is made (e.g., "I appreciate the offer, but my decision is final and based on long-term career factors, not just compensation.").Focus Points: A checklist of their original motivations for leaving (e.g., "Remember why you started this search: lack of flexible working, no clear path to management.").Goal: To help the candidate manage the conversation gracefully, stick to their pre-agreed decision, and resist emotional manipulation in the moment.🔐The Automation Advantage: Protecting Your Fee and Their FutureThe counter offer is a recruitment industry reality, but a drop-out is not an inevitability.By combining pre-emptive, data-driven candidate coaching with a strategic approach to automation, you move beyond simply hoping a candidate will decline a counter offer.Instead, you build a robust, repeatable recruitment process that manages risk, documents commitment, and ensures your candidate resigns fully prepared and focused on their long-term career move.💡Embracing automation isn't about replacing the human element; it's about making the human element.Your invaluable advice and counsel is more impactful. 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Bullhorn Tip - Place More Jobs
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