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Leaders and automators...
Whether you want your data to be clean or healthy, you need it to make you wealthy!
Recruitment can often be hard enough, let alone if you and your teams are constantly compensating for poor data.
You're blowing profit on external systems and being held to ransom by LinkedIn / Job Boards / Indeed
Your recruiters and resourcers are drowning in time-consuming sourcing and admin
Your recruitment process is lagging and you're not able to really see the benefit of automation / analytics / AI
So, Part 6 of our free Unlock Bullhorn webinar series will share tips on how to use Bullhorn Automation to make your data clean, healthy, and worth something!
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10 Stats to Ensure You Focus on Recruitment Data Health
30% of CRM data becomes outdated each year
👉 For recruiters, that means almost a third of candidate and client records may be inaccurate if not maintained.Dirty data costs companies an average of 12% of revenue annually
👉 In recruitment, this translates to lost placements, wasted marketing spend, and poor ROI on tech.Recruiters lose an average of 4.3 hours per week fixing bad data
👉 That’s over 5 working weeks per recruiter, per year spent on admin instead of billable tasks.51% of firms say their CRM data isn’t accurate enough to use
👉 Meaning half of recruitment businesses risk making decisions based on poor-quality information.Clean data can increase sales productivity by up to 14.6%
👉 For recruiters, this means more effective BD, faster sourcing, and stronger candidate engagement.Only 30% of CRM records are fully complete
👉 Incomplete profiles = missed candidates, poor client intel, and wasted recruiter effort.74% of businesses say inaccurate data impacts customer trust
👉 For recruiters, that means weaker candidate experience and damaged client relationships.60% of businesses cite dirty data as the biggest barrier to successful CRM adoption
👉 Meaning even the best tech (Bullhorn, etc.) fails if the underlying data is poor.40% of business objectives fail due to poor data quality
👉 In recruitment, that could mean missed hiring targets, weak BD pipelines, and lost fees.Data decay is accelerating at 2–3% per month
👉 Recruiters working with out-of-date contacts are constantly chasing ghosts instead of live opportunities.
(Sources: Bullhorn / Gartner / Sirius / Salesforce)
Plus ask yourself...
How much $£€ are you spending not using your own data, on LinkedIn / Job Boards / Indeed?
How much time are you wasting by not being able to weaponise your automations / analytics / AI / and lovely human recruiters if your data is so poor?
🧠What You’ll Learn in the Webinar - Starting and Stopping!"
Watch Part 6 of our Unlock Bullhorn with Automation Webinar Series, where we’ll show you:
⛔ Three things to stop doing to your data
🚀 Three things to start doing so your data is cleaner and makes you money, easier!
Clean Up Your Data - Free Up Your Recruiters!
Automation isn’t about replacing recruiters or making your recruitment business feel robotic.
It’s about empowering them to focus on the conversations, and creating more time and space for relationships - the bit that AI can't replace (yet).
Watch our Clean Your Data with Bullhorn Automation Webinar
PS. Want to go even further? Check out our "Unlock Bullhorn with Automation" series.
🔍 Automate sourcing to find qualified candidates faster and with less effort. Watch the recording
💬 Engage with candidates on autopilot and nurture relationships effectively. Watch the recording
📈 Sell easier and faster. Watch the recording
💡 Place easier and faster .Watch the recording
🎯Easy BD. Watch the recording
🧹Data health. Watch the recording above
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