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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'm zoning in on the clients you already have - the current and lapsed - and exploring 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.So, join me 9 Oct to review how to:Automate your BDStrengthen your client relationships (and pipeline),Reduce reliance on third-party systems, andImprove recruiter productivity and happiness!REGISTER FOR THE 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 Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training...CONTACT US
Improving Recruiter Performance - Automate and Train

Improving recruiter performance is always a goal. However, with too much tech, data, and not enough process or best practice, productivity is hard to deliver, measure, and manage.Lisa and I were invited to deliver an APSCo Insight webinar to help recruitment leaders who want to improve recruiter and business performance.Automate and TrainWe discussed what you should automate, and what can you train, to improve performance, and generate more sales. We discussed the advantages of automation and training and explore how you can: Improve recruiter performance Generate more sales Increase sourcing speed Reduce the cost of, and reliance on, external and expensive techAPSCo members can watch the video hereNot an APSCo member? Click here to find out how to join.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.Contact us for help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training. We'd love to help.
Need More Recruitment Sales? Watch This Recruiters!

Recruitment Leaders are focused on stronger BD and Account Management. If you have Bullhorn Automation, or are considering it, there's plenty it can do to help you drive this crucial task. Automated BD and Account Management Recruitment automation isn't just about data hygiene and email marketing.It can also be focused on driving business revenue.It should be focused on optimising (and monetising) relationships.During our speedy 30minute recruitment automation webinar, we talked about:Focusing on what recruitment automation can and should do.How automation can help you train your recruiters, including the ones hired since 2020 who may not have had the best start and may be struggling now.How to improve productivity. How automation can help you turn up and down the volume depending on whether you need to be client or candidate-driven, or both.How automation can help you combat AI - yes it can!How automation can free up recruiters to consult.Plus, Wayne covered 5 key sales-driven automations to help you focus your attention on generating real sales opportunities for your recruiters and your recruitment business.Watch Our Sales Automation WebinarWe have plenty of Automation blogs, and Automation Training on our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT. CLICK TO TRIAL HIITAutomation, Training, Bullhorn1st We'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
Powering Growth: Winning with Recruitment Automation

Recruiters are needing stronger business development and candidate pipelines, and more engaged candidates and clients driving faster and more secure placements. With so much tech and data, is automation just another step that gets in the way of recruiters just getting on the phone?APSCo has invited me to speak at their IT Sector event about one of my favourite topics...Automation to De-Administrate, Re-Humanise and Monetise I will talk about how you can use automation to: Speed up candidate attraction and sourcing – and reduce recruitment timeframes, dropouts, counter offers, cost and stress. Strengthen business development and account management – hence more sales! Turn good recruiters into great ones – less admin, better relationships, more placements!I'd love to see you there.CLICK HERE TO SAVE YOUR SPOTNot an APSCo member? Click here to find out how to join.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.Contact us for help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training. We'd love to help.
6 Things to Get Ready for Automated Lead Gen, Recruiters!

On average it takes a minimum of 6 engagements before a lead is ready for a conversation, however, 80% of recruiters give up after 3 attempts!Something has got to give! Or perhaps something has got to GET! My clients know that there’s more to automation than email marketing. Automation should drive the entire recruitment lifecycle…Get More Sales!"Get more sales" is at the top of most leaders’ to-do lists, so it’s time to get more leads - and automation is the key! When Bullhorn Automation releases its integration with Bullhorn Leads, you will be able to build automations to engage your lead data and improve conversions.The ideal scenario will be to provide your recruiters with warm and engaged leads who are ready to speak to them. Ideally, you’ll be generating a list of clients who you have prompted to request a call back. Do you use Bullhorn Leads to map your markets and track how well you’re penetrating said markets? Or do you use Leads to quickly identify Candidates in your market, who you believe are actively looking and want to reach out to? The Bullhorn Automation Leads integration will help you automate communications needed to engage and convert. As with all automations, you need to ensure Bullhorn is ready, ensure your team is ready, and ensure your automation journeys are streamlined and designed to deliver real ROI. 6 Steps to Get Ready for Automated Lead Generation and More Sales! Here are our top tips to help you get prepared. Check! Is your Bullhorn Leads entity ready for your business to use? Do you have all the relevant fields available? Are there any special Notes that need creating to track engagement? Map! Detail the Leads workflow steps you want to progress a lead. This will help you build automations to track your leads. Train! Ensure you have trained your recruiters on how to engage with Bullhorn Leads. You need to educate your recruiters to add, track, and remove leads consistently. You need your automations to work! Recruitment HIIT users - check out this Bullhorn leads training video to help you review what good practice looks like. (Not a HIIT user? Click here to start your free trial of our recruitment training platform.)Data! Get your data ready. You probably have some data already in various states of readiness. Review your historic data, cleanse what you can, and archive what you don’t need. Content! Has your Marketing function got relevant content and templates ready in Bullhorn Automation? Marketing journeys typically need content to drip feed to your Leads. Identify what you need. Collate what you have. Spot the content gaps and fill them to ensure speedy automation go live”.Contact us if you need help with automated lead gen, or you need to turbo your recruitment business with recruitment automation. Improve PerformanceWe’re super excited about engaging leads with automation. It will allow recruitment leaders and their recruiters to focus on Business Development and improve performance, productivity, and sustainability. How are you getting on with automation? Are you maximising your ROI, or do you need support? Read our case studies about what other recruiters have achieved through automation. Click here to arrange a chat about automationAutomation and Recruitment TrainingWe're a passionate team of recruitment, tech, training professionals set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses, big and small, improve speed and pipeline.Contact us for help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training. We'd love to help.You can even try our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT for free.Click Here To Start Your Free Trial
Automated Recruitment Sales - Connected Recruiting 2.0!

Recruiters and their Recruitment Leaders are needing stronger BD and candidate pipelines, and more engaged candidates and clients driving faster and more secure placements. Whether you're into:Chatbots for a more engaged candidate and client experience, orAutomated calendars to enable speedier recruitment, orAutomation to de-adminstrate and re-humanise......it's all about connected recruiting.What is “Connected Recruiting”? And What's Automation Got to Do With it?As part of our automation Smackdown series, we chatted with Billy and Mandy from Bullhorn, and Wayne from Barclay Jones, about:Connected recruiting 1.0 and what it was - candidate-focused.Connected recruiting 2.0 and what it is - client-focused.How automation needs to focus on sales and client-centric processes.How they think connecting recruiting will help you build a successful automation strategy - monetising your data is crucial.What will connected recruiting 3.0 be? Watch our speedy 7min video: What is Connected Recruiting? And Why Do You Need it?This smackdown, along with other great Bullhorn, Automation, and recruitment training, can be found on our training platform Recruitment HIIT.Automation and Recruitment TrainingWe're a passionate team of recruitment, tech, training professionals set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses, big and small, improve speed and pipeline.Contact us for help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training. We'd love to help.You can even try our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT for free. Click here to start your free trial
How Can Recruiters Be More Targeted with Their Time? Analytics

Recruiters have limited time to make a difference to their candidates, clients, colleagues, and pipeline. But this is the year when agile and focused performance is critical. But with so many systems, often too much data, being focused and targeted is hard.Everything, Everywhere, All At Once!Recruiters are often pulled in multiple directions all at once. Keeping candidates and clients happy, whilst navigating multiple platforms and dirty data sets, makes for a hopeful strategy. All of this is during a year where minds are being changed at speed.But ironically, recruiters have the data which can help target their time. And if analysed, data tells the truth:It speaks of past performanceIt predicts future performanceBut, in some recruitment businesses the truth hurts. Recruiters should be using analytics to tell the truth, then improve their performance. In the very least they could be using data to look for quick wins and business opportunities to, for example, recycle contractors, and focus their time on at-risk clients for repeat business.Recruitment Leaders Navigating Through Tough TimesRecruitment leaders could be using analytics to manage and lead their teams - and help them navigate through troubled times.Recent years have seen a seismic shift in the recruiting market. 1. Experienced recruiters leaving the market and taking their knowledge with them.2. Lots of new startups resulting from larger recruiters downsizing. 3. Recruitment leaders have likely scaled quickly, and during a booming year. New recruiters, new problems.This leaves knowledge gaps, process gaps, and opportunities for a 'spray and pray' approach to recruitment. This can only be fixed by luck and an active and analytical approach by leaders.Leadership would be wise to not wait for luck, but to analyse, automate, enable their recruiters, and yell "let's do this!"Let's Do This!As I'm writing this blog, I'm getting excited for my clients who have not shied away from the data. They are automating it, de-administrating their recruiters, and creating space for best practice and training. I'm also worried about the recruitment leaders who have heads in hands saying "make it stop". I get that, but now is the time to get suited-up and get cracking with the data, the analytics, the performance.Analytics, 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.Contact us for help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training. Click For Free Analytics Training
Calendar, AI, Automation, with Bullhorn Automation

Have you heard about Bullhorn Automation's Calendar feature? It's pretty cool!Meeting candidates and clients, either face to face or phone / video is a critical part of recruitment and sales, but damn, getting these meets booked can be time-consuming and resource-zapping. Lisa and I chatted with Billy and Mandy from Bullhorn about the Calendar feature that is used within Bullhorn Automation and how it can help turbo your recruitment and sales process.Calendar and Automation - WIIFM? (What's in it for me?)This speedy 5-minute "smackdown" gives at least 9 tips to help you get more speed, more meetings, more sales.Speeding up screeningTriggers to get your diary booked by who you want to talk toReduce email fatigueOrganising your recruiters and workflowsMaking yourselves available whilst also creating FOMOGreat for international recruitmentMake smaller recruiters just as competitive as bigger recruitersEnable a 24/7 offering without paying recruiter salaries 24/7Generating more website trafficWatch Bullhorn's Automation and AI experts showcase the benefits of Calendar and Automation for RecruitersPS: Are you using Chatbots? And if so, what value are they adding to your recruitment process? (And how are they helping your candidates, clients, and colleagues?) Read more 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.Contact us for help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training. We'd love to help.
Chatbots, AI, and Automation, with Bullhorn Automation

Automation, Chatbots, and AI are the hot topics in recruitment this year.But could you be suffering from "all the gear, no idea"?Or you've no idea where to start, but know you need to get going with AI.Are you using Chatbots? And if so, what value are they adding to your recruitment process? (And how are they helping your candidates, clients, and colleagues?)If you've not got a chatbot, what could you use one for?Wayne and I chatted with Billy and Mandy from Bullhorn about their Chatbot, and how it couples with Automation and AI to create an experience which can really boost sales, sourcing, retention.This speedy 6-minute"smackdown" takes you into the world of automation and chatbots and explains the many ways it will help produce a faster and more robust recruitment and sales process.Chatbots, AI, Automation - WIIFM? (What's in it for me?)Wayne, Billy, Mandy and I talked about how chatbots, AI, and automation can:Enable self-serviceDevelop stronger candidate and client relationshipsSpeed up recruitment processClean up your recruitment data Speed up sourcingGenerate salesMake smaller recruiters just as competitive as bigger recruitersEnable a 24/7 offering without paying recruiter salaries 24/7Watch Bullhorn's Automation and AI experts showcase the benefits of Chatbots, AI and Automation for RecruitersAutomation, Training, Bullhorn1stWe're a passionate team of recruitment, tech, training professionals set on helping ambitious recruitment businesses, big and small, improve speed and pipeline.Contact us for help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training. We'd love to help.
Recruitment Automation: The Re-Humanisation of Recruitment

Bullhorn Engage has come and gone and there was a very strong theme. Recruiter Productivity.Sustainability.Profitability. For this to happen Bullhorn1st needs to be a goal – aka using Bullhornfirst in your recruitment workflow. Reducing reliance on data and external systems will decrease costs, speed up placements, and create a more robust recruitment business.And the way to Bullhorn1st? Recruitment Automation and Recruitment Training, of course!Recruitment Automation is So Yesterday!I started using the phrase CRM1st back in the early 2000s. It was borne out of working with 150 busy recruiters who were rapidly being exposed to huge data sets - LinkedIn, job boards, candidates who wielded the Apply button like a Scud missile. But they didn't have the discipline or process to strategically manage the massive increase in data volume or change in candidate behaviour.I used CRM1st (it was Adapt then) to help recruiters new to the recruitment sector to battle their FOMO (fear of missing out). I used CRM1st with experienced recruiters and resourcers to help them not get dragged under by rapidly increasing candidate pools.Have things changed in recent years?Have recruiters gotten better at managing their data, recruitment technology, candidate and client experience? Has the colleague experience improved now we have so much data and rec tech that should theoretically make recruitment easier....? Unfortunately, I'm not sure things have changed (enough).Recruiters have been running to catch up. But the faster they run, the bigger the data set becomes, the more competition they have (even from their own clients), and the more tech they feel they need just to stand still.Recruiter Frustration – Ready, Fire, AimI'm frustrated with the sector that can't seem to grasp what it's good at... Niche specialisms +Nurtured communities of candidates and clients reliant on great recruiters +Colleagues delivering best practice and making a difference, changing lives.But that "goodness" can't happen without focus.And how can a recruiter focus with huge data sets, too much tech and not enough process?Whether you have Bullhorn or another recruitment CRM, it needs to be first on your list to source, engage, nurture, and place from - if it’s not 1st, everyone loses. (Apart from the software company you buy comfort from!)Automation – The Re-Humanisation of Recruitment! Automation for my clients has become the missing link. It’s been around for years, but now automation is really being used to take away the pain, and the admin. Recruitment Automation is being used to drive the best of behaviours. It's enabling CRM1st (aka Bullhorn1st). It’s creating time for training – for all, not just new recruiters! And it’s creating time for trained recruiters empowered to get on the phone and do some good. Once you automate what you can, you can train what’s left – and what should be left is the gold in the recruitment process – humans! More effective sourcingSpeedier screening designed to prevent counter offers Interviews with clients who move to placement uninterrupted Placements and onboarding designed to generate referrals Recruiters need training on their systems and process so that can totally nail what their clients pay for. Automation creates space and time for this training to happen. Automate What You Can - Train What's Left If you can automate what you can, and train what's left, then your data, your database, and your 3Cs (candidates, clients, colleagues) will be in a really good place, perhaps even 1st place, for the rest of this year and beyond. What are you going to automate? What training is needed to deliver sustainable recruitment business? My team can help with both of these key goals.Paul Robson, The Crew Hunter. We have managed to restructure our business, with more recruiters and more time to recruit. And the ROI from our Bullhorn Automation training? Time Saved. Admin Removed. Staff Efficiency. We've saved 45 hours with 1,345 automated actions in just 8 weeks. Plus, we built 3 automations at the beginning of the project which allowed us to remove an old core process which freed up space for another recruiter.Talking of Recruiters Getting More Automated!...Using recruitment automation to improve data, process, candidates and client experience - that's a great goal! But you also need to free up your recruiters to be exceptional And they need training for this.Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines. We aim to save every recruiter and resourcer at least 1 hour per day (6 working weeks a year) - more billing time, more fees!TRY RECRUITMENT HIITREAD ABOUT OUR BULLHORN AND BULLHORN AUTOMATION TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING
How to Make Recruiters More Productive (and Automated?) with Rec Expo London

Recruiters need more time, engaged candidates, and a stronger sales pipeline. Recruitment Leaders need that too, plus, trained and engaged recruiters, tech ROI, best practice, profit, and stability.I recently spoke at the Recruitment Agency Expo London on the topic 'Automation - How to Improve Recruiter Performance" and I wanted to share my talk and takeaways.Improving Recruiter Performance With AutomationNow more than ever improving recruiter productivity and performance is critical. But with potentially too much recruitment technology and data, and not enough process and best practice, productivity is hard to deliver, measure, and manage. Performance is hard to improve. And in the middle of all this, economic and environmental factors are creating so much distraction. But if you could automate what you can, and train what's left (the good stuff!), then your recruitment data, your database, and your 3Cs (candidates, clients, colleagues) will be in a really good place, perhaps even 1st place.At RecExpo London I talked about:The barriers to great recruiter performance.How to make marginal gains and what Kaizen has to say about being "lean" (and mean!) and what recruitment leaders can use from this model.How can you de-administrate and re-humanise your recruitment business with recruitment automation, so you can improve recruiter performance? Where can recruitment automation have the most impact? Clean data, candidate sourcing, screening, candidate and client management and experience, sales? What tips do I share for how recruitment automation can add pain and stress relief.Why recruitment automation is great for startups, as well as "big fish" recruiters.How do you get started with recruitment automation?Read Lisa's Slides on Automation Improving Recruiter PerformanceDOWNLOAD MY SLIDES ON AUTOMATION IMPROVING RECRUITER PERFORMANCE... Talking of Improving Recruiter Performance...We are focused on improving recruiter performance and we do this with automation and training.We implement Bullhorn Automation for recruiters new to this software. Plus, we add serious turbo to recruiters who already have Bullhorn Automation through coaching and building programs.Our high intensity interval training platform - Recruitment HIIT has speedy 5-minute recruitment best practice, Bullhorn, and other great rectec training. It saves recruitment leaders time by speedily onboarding new recruiters, whilst helping busy experienced recruiters make crucial marginal gains. Automate whatever you can - then train on the good stuff. De-administrate and re-humanise recruitment.TRY RECRUITMENT HIIT FREEBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS
Recruitment Automation: Creating a Time Machine with Bullhorn Automation

Recruitment automation can fill many skills, time, data, and process gaps in your recruitment business.It can free up time so your recruiters can get back on the phone and drive sales, not to mention, it can help you develop speedy recruitment processes and workflows, source quicker and help you prevent counteroffers.But how do you measure recruitment automation's impact? ROI is key!What Would You Do With an Extra Full-Time Recruiter?We work with recruiters to help them implement recruitment automations that improve speed and pipeline. But often, when we start a recruitment automation project, we need to raise the expectations of our clients. We coach them to "think big" about what recruitment automation can do. Where's the pain and how can Bullhorn Automation (AKA Herefish) solve it? (People, process, data...?)Yes - we're bragging! The recruiters we've worked with have had some amazing results! What would you do with an extra 35 hours per recruiter? Look at our infographic below. If you could pick just one outcome from the list, which one would it be?Talking of Recruiters Getting More Automated!...Using recruitment automation to improve data, process, candidates and client experience - that's a great goal! But you also need to free up your recruiters to be exceptional And they need training for this.Our high intensity interval training - Recruitment HIIT - helps recruiters source, convert quicker, and develop healthy pipelines. We aim to save every recruiter at least 1 hour per day (6 working weeks a year) - more billing time, more fees!We'd love you to try Recruitment HIIT free.TRY RECRUITMENT HIIT READ ABOUT OUR BULLHORN AND BULLHORN AUTOMATION TRAININGBOOK A CALL TO DISCUSS RECRUITMENT TRAINING