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Recruiters – let’s be honest.
Sales may feel tough right now, and even if you've got lots of jobs to work, are they easy wins, or hard gains?
Your Bullhorn data is a goldmine waiting to be tapped. Work it right, and you’ll sell faster, smarter, and with less stress.
So, before you burn more time (and budget) on job boards, LinkedIn, or costly marketing, start with the data you already own.
Part 5 of our Optimise Bullhorn webinar series will share some tips on how to turn your Bullhorn CRM into a sales engine—and start winning more business.
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6️⃣Reasons to Come to our Bullhorn for BD Tips for Recruiters Webinar
💪CRM drives revenue and BD effectiveness. Plus, a well-utilized CRM can boost lead conversion rates by up to 300% thanks to personalised outreach and streamlined communication. (Source: Astersense)
🎯CRM users hit their sales targets—more often. 86% of businesses that use a CRM exceed their sales goals, versus just a small fraction that don’t use one.
3️⃣Smash your sales targets. Effective use of your CRM can increase your chances of smashing your targets by 3 times!
🚀Be more productive! CRM for BD boosts productivity by up to 34%, freeing up time to focus on meaningful BD tasks.
🪴Nurturing pays off. Leads nurtured through CRM workflows result in 47% larger purchases compared to cold outreach.
💘Faster conversions. Re-engaged clients convert 2x faster than cold leads, giving recruiters a powerful edge when leveraging existing relationships.
(Sources = HubSpot / Salesforce / Freshdesk)
All of the above are convincing stats and compelling reasons to watch our webinar and get rocking and rolling with your Bullhorn system and drive your BD smarter and faster.
🧠What You’ll Learn in our Bullhorn 4 BD Webinar
Part 5 of our "Optimise Bullhorn" webinar series is packed with tips you can use immediately to drive your sales / BD tasks.
✅Find easy to convert leads.
✅Advanced searching to locate hidden gems.
✅Use AI to uncover opportunities and drive a smarter process.
✅An automation to save time and generate wins.
🤚 Stop leaving money in your database—or opportunities for your competitors to convert your prospects.
👉 Join our Bullhorn for BD webinar and learn how to turn your CRM into a true revenue machine.
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Why Your Bullhorn Stack is the Secret to Rehumanising Recruitment
In the high-stakes world of UK recruitment, there’s a nagging anxiety that sits like a ghost in the machine: the "roboticisation" of the industry.Many recruitment agency owners I speak with worry that leaning too heavily into their tech stack (specifically a powerhouse like Bullhorn) risks turning their recruiters and resourcers into data-entry admins and their candidates and clients into mere serial numbers.There's a distinct lack of picking up the phone, at a time when it's never been more important.But if you’re viewing recruitment technology as a barrier to human connection, you’re looking at it through the wrong end of the telescope.RehumanisationThe primary goal for almost every high-performing recruitment and staffing agency I partner with isn't to automate people out of the business.It is to use technology to rehumanise the process.Here are 3 ways how we move beyond the theory of tech driving stronger relationships and rehumanising the recruitment process.1️⃣The Paradox of Manual LabourThe irony of modern recruitment is that the "human touch" is often killed by "robotic" manual tasks. When a consultant spends three hours a day manually parsing CVs, dragging files into folders, and sending "just checking in" emails, they aren't being human. They are acting like a slow, expensive algorithm.And they are likely missing the point of recruitment:Managing relationships.Spotting opportunities.Protecting pipelines.By the time they actually get a candidate or client on the phone, they’re drained and distracted.When we optimise Bullhorn by Bullhorn Automation, Analytics and AI, we aren't replacing the recruiter. We are stripping away the administrative "noise" that prevents them from being present. True automation handles the repetitive, low-value chores so your team can focus on the high-value, high-emotion conversations that actually land placements.Great analytics helps create meaningful time management and tasks to drive targets!AI creates space for mindful recruitment!📌These 3 As lead to a crucial 4th A - adoption! What's often missing from a recruiter's day is a great adoption of process.2️⃣Restoring the Candidate (and Client) ExperienceMany candidates have been on the receiving end of "robotic" recruitment: weeks of radio silence followed by a generic rejection email. Plus, clients often feel under managed and engaged with, and go elsewhere.That isn't the fault of the tech; it’s a failure to use it.📌A rehumanised process uses the ecosystem to ensure no one feels ignored.In a sophisticated Bullhorn setup:Speed is Empathy: Candidates and clients receive updates the moment a status changes because your workflow is triggered by their journey, not by a recruiter’s busy diary.Personalisation at Scale: You can reference a candidate's / client's specific niche, need, or career aspirations automatically, proving you’ve actually engaged with their profile.Consistency: Every contact receives a gold-standard experience, regardless of how many roles a consultant is juggling that week.3️⃣Data: The Compass for ConnectionData isn't cold; it’s context.When your Bullhorn data is clean and your tech is configured correctly, you gain a massive competitive advantage in relationship building. And your recruiters and resourcers value it, want to use it - RoI is achieved!Automations don't feel automatedAnalytics tell the right truth and drive brilliant activityAI releases procrastinationCandidates and clients are managed - everyone wins!Imagine a consultant calling a client and knowing exactly when they last spoke, the specific pain points mentioned six months ago, and exactly which candidate profiles resonated most. That isn't tech "taking over". Tech provides the insights needed to be a true consultant rather than just a CV chaser.💸💸The Bottom LineTechnology shouldn't be a wall between you and your market; it should be the bridge.My mission is to help you move past the "human vs. machine" debate and start seeing Bullhorn as the ultimate tool for liberation.When you automate the mundane, you empower your people to do what only humans can do: negotiate, empathise, and consult.I been in recruitment since 2000. This year, more than any other year, means that your human-connected-tech strategy has never been more important.Bullhorn ATS / Analytics / Automation / AI RoIWe are Bullhorn experts set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses to increase speed and sales.We help you weaponise your people, data, time, and tech, so you can recruit and sell!Our Bullhorn Vision and Buddy service helps generate best-in-class processes, adoption, head space, and ROI.BOOK A FREE BULLHORN ROI CONSULTATION
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Lisa Jones
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Tech-Rich but Time-Poor: Is Your Recruitment Stack a Frankenstein’s Monster?
In the recruitment world, we are currently "tech-rich but time-poor."The recruitment market is currently flooded with "cool tools" and creating the risk of a fragmented tech stack, which ironically creates more process lag.As recruitment agency owners, you’ve likely been told for years that the right tech is the silver bullet for your growth. Perhaps you’ve invested in:The best CRMs.The latest AI sourcing tools.And cutting-edge automation and analytics platforms. But for many of you, instead of a streamlined powerhouse, you may have ended up with a "Frankenstein’s Monster" - a collection of brilliant tools that don’t talk to each other (and a team of "disconnected recruiters" with the best will in the world still delivering relatively manual processes.)The next Power Hive eventswill dive into how you move past the hype to find the actual gold. Because here is the hard truth: RoI isn't found in the features of a single tool; it’s found in the flow between them.The Problem: Integration DebtWhen your tech stack is fragmented, your team pays the price in "manual labour".If a recruiter has to spend 20 minutes a day moving data from a sourcing tool to a CRM, or manually updating a spreadsheet to track marketing leads, or worse, paralysed by choices and poor data, you aren't just losing time, you’re losing the very RoI you bought the tech to generate.📌Technology is not as a standalone pillar. It's the engine that powers your Recruitment Business, Recruiters, and Marketing. If the engine isn't connected to the wheels, you aren't going anywhere.3️⃣Pillars for Maximum Tech RoITo get a real return on your investment, your ecosystem needs to solve 3 specific challenges...1. The "Single Source of Truth"RoI starts with data and process integrity.If your rectec tool finds a "purple unicorn" candidate but that data doesn't instantly sync to your CRM, that candidate is essentially invisible to the rest of your business.📌To maximise RoI, your CRM must be the heart of the business, with every other tool acting as a limb that feeds it information in real-time.2. Reclaiming the "Human" in RecruitmentI'm delighted to be a part of The Power Hive. It's built on the mission of Making Human Connections.Ironically, the best way to be more human is to be more automated. Maximum RoI happens when tech removes the "click-work." Imagine a world where a candidate applies, an AI agent screens them, a calendar invite is sent, and the CRM is updated, all while your recruiter is on the phone actually consulting. That is where the profit lies: buying back your people’s time so they can do what they do best.📌Move beyond the theory that tech "roboticises" recruitment, and move towards it rehumanising the process - which is the one goal most of my clients have.3. The Closed Feedback LoopWhen tech is connected, you can run faster, make data-driven decisions, and can see which source (Marketing) actually leads to a placement (Revenue).📌You can’t calculate RoI if you can’t track the journey from lead to cash.The "Power Move": Audit Your Stack (and Expect More!)Before you buy the next "shiny object" in recruitment, perform a quick audit of your current setup. Ask yourself: Keep, Kill, or Connect?Keep: Is it being used to its full potential?Kill: Is it a standalone "silo" that adds more work than it saves?Connect: Can this tool be integrated via API or middleware (like Zapier or Make) to automate a manual task?📌And rinse and repeat this process every year, even if you have no intention of buying new tech. It's just good sense to look your tech in the eye and ensure it is fulfilling it's purpose.Join the ConversationAt the upcoming events in Leeds and Manchester, we’re going to look at the practical "how-to" of connecting these dots. Some thmese will be:People - How do you get your people performing better?Technology - How do you get more efficiency from your technology stack for a better RoI?The goal isn't to have the most tech; it’s to have the most connected tech and recruiters. Have confidence that when the tech works, the people (and you) win.Find out more about the events here. Perhaps I'll see you there?Bullhorn ATS / Analytics / Automation / AI RoIWe are Bullhorn experts set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses to increase speed and sales.We help you weaponise your people, data, time, and tech, so you can recruit and sell!Our Bullhorn Vision and Buddy service helps generate best-in-class processes, adoption, head space, and ROI.BOOK A FREE BULLHORN ROI CONSULTATION
