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Winning more deals, placing more candidates, having more long-term (profitable) relationships, and making more money, is a key goal for recruiters and leaders.
But often, the path to making a sale isn't smooth, straight, easy, or quick!
The whole point of tech is that it's supposed to help, not hinder recruiters.
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Sales Prevention or Enablement?
But, too much data, and not enough process or phone time is paralysing many recruiters. And many recruitment leaders are asking "why can't they just pick up the phone?"
As a recruitment leader / recruiter, you should be able to rely on your Bullhorn CRM to power productivity and sales pipelines.
But is Bullhorn really driving sales, or simply increasing costs?
Why does using Bullhorn for sales matter?
💪Recruiters that use their CRM effectively can improve sales by up to 29%. Plus, sales productivity increases by up to 34%, and sales forecast accuracy by 42%.
💞It costs 6x more to attract a new lead than to nurture one already in your CRM. Reaching out to warm clients already in your system isn’t just faster—it’s smarter for your bottom line.
😱Recruiters spend up to 64% of their time on non-selling tasks. Imagine Wednesday, Thursday, Friday being almost totally unproductive and not selling!
💸Leads nurtured via CRM systems make 47% larger purchases. Who knew that nurturing a contact means you sell more to them?
🔁80% of sales require 5+ follow-ups—but 44% of recruiters give up after 1. How many opps are not being converted due to a lack of resilience?
🎯CRM users are 3x more likely to hit their sales targets. Compelling, and the ultimate reason to engage with Bullhorn.
(Sources: Salesforce / Annuitas / Bullhorn)
In short: Using your Bullhorn CRM for sales is a winner!
But there's a catch! Perhaps your business doesn't feel that Bullhorn is the key to sales!
💩Only 30% of recruiter CRMs are considered “clean and current”. Is a lack of faith in your system driving costs up? Do you need more systems and data to tackle this lack of confidence / adoption / productivity?
How much is that costing your business?
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How Useful is Your Bullhorn CRM for Sales?
We asked recruiters to give us one word to describe how they feel about using Bullhorn for sales and they said...
Oh dear...
And this is why you are potentially reliant on systems outside of Bullhorn for sales - eg. LinkedIn / Job Boards etc...
Our Winning 3-Step TLC Strategy for Using Bullhorn to Make More Money
Changing how Bullhorn is perceived and used for sales is critical!
We help recruitment businesses weaponise their Bullhorn CRMs into clean, revenue-generating machines with a simple framework "TLC":
Train recruiters to use Bullhorn for sales, help them understand WIIFM? “What’s in it for me?”, and get them loving using Bullhorn to drive sales.
Legacy cleanse and activate: Find account management opportunities and create call lists based on existing data. Which leads already exist in Bullhorn that need re-activating?
Campaigns: Create engaging outbound campaigns to new / legacy data to generate call lists / leads.
No expensive tools. No time-zapping system overhauls. Just smart fixes that work with what you already have.
📍 Book a Free "Bullhorn 4 Sales" Consultation
I’d love to hear how you’re tackling improving sales with Bullhorn —and pay it forward with a free 30-minute call to share ideas and insights from the 1000s of recruiters we've work with.
Identify quick-wins
Share smart tools and automation options
Whether your recruiters and resourcers struggle with account management, spotting and nurturing leads, speedy placements, we can help you build a practical, profitable, recruiter-friendly fix.
Ready to give your Bullhorn and recruiters some TLC, and get Bullhorn driving sales?
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🚀 Why Now?
Because recruitment is too competitive to be slowed down by bad data, and unrewarding processes. The difference between making a placement and missing out is often just how quickly and accurately you can find and reach the right person.
If your consultants / resourcers are wasting time not converting or placing —or worse, avoiding your Bullhorn CRM altogether—this is your chance to fix it for good.
Bullhorn shouldn't be a necessary evil / nice to have / data dump - it should be a revenue generating business-critical recruitment system. Let’s get yours working the way it should.
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