Recruitment Technology Tips
How to Get Your Recruitment Data Clean and Automated
Our next Bullhorn Automation webinar is Friday 26 Jan 12:00-12:30 GMT, and"data health" is the theme.Automation is helping recruiters improve productivity, sales, and sourcing, whilst reducing reliance and cost of 3rd party systems like LinkedIn and Job boards. Yippee! But often, the health of your data can seem like a big hill to climb before you can begin benefitting from automation… You bet we have some ideas to help you clean up your recruitment data so that you can increase speed and pipeline with automation.How to Cleanse Your Data so You Can Automate In our next automation webinar we’ll talk about tools and techniques you can use to get your data ship-shape, clean, and healthy, so that automation can do some serious heavy lifting for you. This is a great webinar whether you are curious about automation, are just starting out with automation, or have automation already but want 2024 to be a success!We don't want any of you lovely recruiters not automating as you feel your data is the barrier. Data is your gold, your oil - it's a precious resource. It lasts longer than your employees (sorry) but it also gets in the way of a sustainable recruitment business. Stats to Focus You on Cleaning Your Recruitment DataManage your candidate and client data well and you make money from it. Manage your recruitment data poorly and the tech giants make money from you! (Linkedin / Job Boards.) Data degrades at 2% / month (a huge 25% a year). Dirty data can reduce revenue by 12%. Effective use of CRM can boost sales by 29% and productivity 34%. Let's get your data clean, and automated!Can't make the date? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording.REGISTER HEREAutomation, 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
Automation Mythbusted - The Reality of Recruitment Automation
Recruitment automation (not to be belittled by the mere "marketing automation") is allowing many recruiters to save money, time, headspace, and...Weaponise their data.Speed up their placements.Sell more. Plus more...But like all advances in tech, there are myths and legends which surround it.Myths like:It's a time-consuming beast of a project.You need a full-time employee to implement it.Once live it's a full-time job to manage it.If you can't go "big bang", don't bother!I chatted with Wayne (AKA "The Automator") and Jay (from Bullhorn) about these myths versus the reality. What is the reality of implementing recruitment automation?Automation Myths... Busted!We chatted about:What really happens during an implementation?What do you gain (and what do you lose) when you automate?How can you start your project with a small number of powerful automations to give you breathing space and reduce reliance on expensive 3rd party systems like LinkedIn Recruiter and Job Boards?What does a good "cadence" of automations look like?This short myth-busting video is a must-watch for recruiters big, small, and cute, who need head space, easier and cheaper sourcing, reduced reliance on Linkedin and job boards, stronger pipelines, and happier recruiters.Watch our "Automation - Mythbusted" Chat 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.For help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training...CONTACT US
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Bullhorn Turbo Sourcing Tips for Recruiters Webinar
Sourcing - what a dark art it is! Time zapping, Expensive external systems needed, Countless job adverts.... ...Only to attract candidates you already have? 72% of placements made are from your own data - but many recruiters only find this out after they've sourced / advertised externally. No, thank you! Let's stop wasting an average 13hours a week on this task, and instead learn some neat tricks to help you source from Bullhorn first. This Bullhorn tips webinar beautifully complements our recent sales tips webinar.We cover:Speed: How to use Bullhorn to source speedier than if you sourced externally.Smart: Some really smart ways of searching Bullhorn so you are super quick, and clever!Watch Our Bullhorn Sourcing Tips WebinarAlternatively, you can:Waste money sourcing from multiple expensive websites (Linkedin and Job Boards need your cash!)Admit defeat by advertising your jobs. (Let your clients know you do not in fact have a viable candidate pool.)Lose out on placements by creating unnecessary lag and risk in your process.Recruitment TrainingThis webinar 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 Bullhorn, Analytics, Automation, SourceBreaker, LinkedIn, Calendly, Teams, Daxtra, Broadbean, idibu, Hinterview, Paiger, Adapt, we train on those too!TRY HIIT FREE HERE
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Sourcing Turbo! How to Use Automation to Speed Up Sourcing
Sourcing can be an incredibly time-zapping task for recruiters.We often hear:I've got too much data but not enough candidates!All The Gear, No Idea?In my previous automation webinars, I covered automated BD and account management. Get my automated sales tips here:5 ways to drive, secure, and optimise your accounts, and5 key sales-driven automations to help you focus your attention on generating real sales opportunitiesBut what's the point of winning more sales opps, if you can't speedily place them?If you have Bullhorn automation, this should help you:Speedily clean up your data.Identify relevant candidates you can attract and nurture.Approach candidates to apply for your jobs.Watch my latest Bullhorn Automation webinar where I explored how to use Bullhorn Automation to:Add turbo to your sourcing with warm, monetised data.Reduce reliance on expensive 3rd party systems like LinkedIn Recruiter and Job Boards.Use Bullhorn 1st for sourcing, hence increased speed, placements, and sales.Watch Our Automated Sourcing WebinarAlternatively, you can:Continue sourcing from multiple expensive websites (Linkedin and Job Boards need your cash!)Advertise your jobs. (Let your clients know you do not in fact have a viable candidate pool.)Create unnecessary lag and risk in your process resulting in less placements and less fees.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.For help with Automation, creating a Bullhorn1st culture, and Recruitment Training...CONTACT US
MS Teams Tips for Busy Recruiters
Whether you have MS Teams as your video / chat platform, or you need to use it when a candidate or client sends you a link to a Teams meeting, you need to nail this crucial tech.Simply using Teams for the odd chat or video call, and pressing Join and Leave is not smart. Knowing how to use it to communicate, screen and sell is critical. Don't allow the tech to let you down.MS Teams Tips for Smart Recruiters... Nail your Comms, Screening, and SalesWe've launched our new HIIT workout for you lovely recruiters. It's focused on helping you look cool, be productive, save time, and nail your screening and sales calls. We've got Teams tips like:Chat on turbo (no time to waste!)Mute distractions (focus on what's important).Listen to chats (reading is so yesterday!)Stalk - How to get notified when someone comes out of a meeting. (So you can pounce on them!)Engage with Polls, Praise, and other super-engaging Teams features.Screen and Sell with our "Beast Your Meeting" workout.Look younger! Oh! And it can take years off you with its "soft focus" setting too!If you're an existing HIIT client login and complete the workout.Want a free trial to see how HIIT can help improve speed and pipeline?CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE TRIALRecruitment TrainingThis 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 Bullhorn, Analytics, Automation, SourceBreaker, LinkedIn, Calendly, Teams, Daxtra, Broadbean, idibu, Hinterview, Paiger, Adapt, we train on those too!TRY HIIT FREE HERE
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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 zoned in on the clients you already have - the current and lapsed - and explored 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.Watch my latest Bullhorn Automation webinar where I explored how to:Automate your BDStrengthen your client relationships (and pipeline)Reduce reliance on third-party systems, andImprove recruiter productivity and happiness!And I talked about 5 of my favourite automations to help you turbo boost your account management and thus sales!Watch Our Account Management Automation WebinarWe have plenty more Automation Training, and Bullhorn Training on our recruitment training platform, Recruitment HIIT.CLICK TO TRIAL HIITAutomation, 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
No Need for LinkedIn Recruiter... Free LinkedIn is a Winner!
Even the most experienced recruiters often don't get real ROI from LinkedIn, and this forces them to invest in the paid-for versions. Meanwhile, lots of time and money wasted outside of their CRM searching the one place that competitors and clients have access to - not smart! Reduce the Cost of and Reliance on LinkedIn Recruiter!Many of my clients are looking for ways to be more effective and save money on tech subscriptions.Recruitment HIIT has some fantastic recruitment training, as well as Bullhorn Training, Adapt Training, SourceBreaker Training, Analytics Training, and Automation Training. Plus, HIIT has a great LinkedIn course which one of our clients recently calledthe antidote to LinkedIn Recruiter! LinkedIn Training to Improve Speed and Pipeline......and Reduce the Need for LinkedIn RecruiterWe've got some great LinkedIn tips to help you get the most from the free version of LinkedIn which can also help reduce the need for LinkedIn Recruiter. (Wasting less time and money is a good goal to have! )Score! We look at the LinkedIn scoring system so you get seen by more candidates and clients. All Star! We show you how to create an “all-star” profile so you generate more opportunities - more candidates, more clients, more ops, more sales, more time!Contact monetisation: And we have some cool hacks to connect with and monetise the best candidates and clients - and to help you generate more of a community that you can then sell to!Lead generation. Who needs LinkedIn Recruiter when we have tips to help you speedily generate leads, with 1 hand, on the free version of LinkedIn? And how about sourcing and advertising? Oh, Yes, we have some nifty tips to help you source from Linkedin, when your CRM doesn't deliver the talent you need.If you're an existing HIIT client login and complete the workout.Want a free trial to see how HIIT can help improve speed and pipeline?Click here for your free trial
How Can Recruiters Improve Performance? Get on the Phone!
Recruiters can always improve their performance, whether it be marginal gains or drastically improving failing pipelines. Right now is the time to dig deep and ask:Where can I improve my recruiter performance? AndWhat part of my recruitment workflow can I improve?Recruitment Research: Phone Calls Are a DownerI spent time with Josh Symons from Hinterview. Hinterview has completed some interesting recruitment research to help recruitment leaders and their recruiters focus on where and when they need to get mean and lean in their recruitment workflow! We chatted about how and where recruiters can improve their recruiter performance.Josh and I talked about:With all of the recruitment technology available, how can you keep the recruitment process human?Where in the recruitment life cycle can recruiters improve their performance?How can video improve recruiter performance?Phone calls work IF you want and mean them to – but how?How can a recruiter generate heat?What’s Daley Thompson’s decathlon got to do with recruitment?Why does recruitment technology often not work in recruitment (hint – it’s got the word “training” in the answer)What are 85% of male recruiters also doing when they are most engaged with their mobile phones?Recruitment leaders and recruiters – you want your phone calls to work! Get at least one takeaway to help you improve recruiter performance and nail those phone calls.Watch the trailer of my vodcast with Josh...The full vodcast, along with other great sales and recruitment and Hinterview training, can be found on our training platform Recruitment HIIT.SIGN UP FOR YOUR FREE HIIT TRIAL
Turbo Sourcing with the Bullhorn Shortlist List
Recruiters, you may be spending far too much time sourcing outside your Bullhorn system when the most active candidates are right under your nose!In fact, on average, 72% of placements are made with candidates you sourced outside of Bullhorn, but were there all along!What a waste of time, money, and opportunity!This little-known Bullhorn tip from Recruitment HIIT will speedily find active candidates ready to work with you right now! (Candidates, that if you’re not quick, will work with your competitors!)Using too many recruitment systems can really slow you down. Our Bullhorn training on Recruitment HIIT will ensure you use Bullhorn to:save time,source speedily, andfind active candidates before your competition.Turbo Sourcing with the Bullhorn Shortlist ListSourcing is not just about getting candidates on Bullhorn - you need to find them and place them! Do you want a ready-made list of active candidates? Do you need to get to the right candidates quicker?Do you want to find out Bullhorn’s best-kept secret to speedy sourcing?Of course you do!Source the Right Candidates in Seconds with this Bullhorn TipWant More Bullhorn and Recruitment Tips?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, Adapt, we train on those too!TRY HIIT FREE HERE
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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
How to Weaponise Your Recruitment Data with Analytics
Recruiters are drowning in data and this makes them unproductive. It’s paralysing. Whether you’re a recruitment leader wanting a sustainable recruitment business with high-performing recruiters, or a recruiter that wants to run a successful recruitment desk, this podcast is a great listen (or watch).Too Much Recruitment Data, Not Enough Performance? We know the recruitment data stats: 72% of the candidates placed are on your Bullhorn CRM before you spend time and money sourcing them externally. The best candidates are off the market in 10 days If a recruiter has 10 jobs, they’ll likely only place 2 These recruitment stats make recruitment a process of luck and sometimes hope! I’m joined by the mighty Andy Hill from Bullhorn Analytics. We talked about weaponising recruitment data. We looked at how recruiters can use data to be more productive, improve recruiter performance, and make some money. I asked Andy some questions: The role of the recruiter is evolving, and data is at the centre. How does Andy feel about how recruiters should evolve to capitalise on your Bullhorn data? What skills does Andy feel recruiters need to be effective? What do recruitment leaders need to stop doing? What is a recruiter’s “real” job? Andy talks about tridents and bows and arrows (and data) –what’s that got to do with recruitment? What key takeaways does Andy have for recruiters and recruitment leaders regarding how they can use data to run their desks and businesses? Recruitment leaders and recruiters – buckle up! Listen/watch, and whether you have an analytics tool or not, get at least one takeaway to help you improve performance. Watch the trailer of my vodcast with Andy...The full vodcast, along with other great sales and recruitment and Analytics training, can be found on our training platform Recruitment HIIT.SIGN UP FOR YOUR FREE HIIT TRIAL
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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.
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