Jonathan Wall joined Bullhorn as the Director of Product Marketing in early 2010. Prior to joining Bullhorn he held a variety sales and marketing positions at Adobe, Palm, Macromedia, Allaire, IBM and Sybase.
He holds a BA from Bates College and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.
How many times do you log in to multiple job boards per day? Do you get frustrated that each source has different search technology, screens and navigation? How much time could you save if you didn’t have to review results from every different source you use?
Let’s face it - finding the best talent for your clients is no simple task. That’s why Bullhorn has been continually working to streamline the candidate searching process.
Today, I’m very excited to deliver a major enhancement that will help you place your candidates faster than ever before…Introducing Bullhorn Universal Search
Bullhorn Universal Search simplifies the sourcing process, allowing you to simultaneously search more than 70 million resumes on over 10,000 free and paid job boards and social networks, including LinkedIn, Monster, HotJobs, CareerBuilder, Dice, Craigslist and the open Web.
The Secret Sauce: Advanced Matching – Saving You Weeks of Time a Year!
While the shear depth of sources in Universal Search helps make finding great candidates easier, advanced matching helps recruiters be more productive by dramatically reducing the number of results needed to review by intelligently predicting which candidates are the best fit for the job.
For example, I recently ran a search for a java developer in the Boston area across multiple paid and free sources. I got 123 results, and of those, I felt 30 matched my keywords well enough to warrant a detailed review. Do I have time to review 30 potential candidates? No, but previously I had to find the time. Wouldn’t it be much better if I only needed to review say, 10, instead of 30? Absolutely!
After using Universal Search’s advanced matching capability, I’m left with the nine best candidate resumes at the top of my list – now that’s more like it. In this example, I saved more than one hour by only having to review nine results instead of 30. Think about how that adds up. If I run one search every day and get similar results, that’s about six hours a week, three days a month, and 37 days a year of time that I would have spent searching through resumes. How much additional revenue could you produce with 37 more days added to your recruiting calendar?
So how does advanced matching work?
1. Universal Search looks across the sources you selected and brings back results that match your keywords.
2. It looks through a database of more than one million historical job placements to find job descriptions just like yours, and then extracts the important attributes shared by the candidates who successfully filled them.
3. Universal Search filters your search results using these success attributes so the ones that are most likely to lead to placement are at the top of your list, effectively filtering out candidates that aren’t a good fit.
Bullhorn Universal Search is available today. To learn more, read the FAQ, or contact your Bullhorn account representative.
As one of the newest members of the Bullhorn team, I’m excited to introduce myself to the Bullhorn customer community. I recently relocated from California to take on the role of Director of Product Marketing here where I’m responsible for developing and implementing go-to product market strategies and programs. One of the things I’m focused on in my initial days is developing an understanding of the Bullhorn user community. In a recent post, I blogged about what I call the Bullhorn Effect, or the impact of Bullhorn’s capabilities.
Today, I’m looking to hear from active Bullhorn users on which Bullhorn features produce the highest level of impact in your job. And if you are willing to provide input on the following over the next two weeks, I’ll send one of you a $25 Starbucks gift card.
- What feature or features help you to make an impact, by increasing fill ratios, sourcing better candidates, etc.?
- What features can’t you imagine living without, and which save you tons of time each day?
- What is the impact of those features and how have they enabled you to become a higher impact recruiter and/or add business value for your clients/candidates?
Please use the comments space below to respond to these three bullets or if you prefer, feel free to drop me a note by email at jwall at bullhorn dot com.
As I mentioned, I’m going to send a $25 Starbucks gift card to one of the people who comments on the blog. The winner will be selected at random.
Update to post on March 4,2010
Wow, I’ve heard from a lot of you, but only by email. So thanks for that, and feel free to keep it coming if you are just reading this post for the first time. I wanted to call one thing out, as I’ve gotten a lot input, but also a ton of feature requests. Bullhorn has a great community oriented web application for feature requests called Bullhorn Brainstorm. You can access it by clicking on “Bullhorn Brainstorm” from the Support menu inside of Bullhorn. Its a way for all the Bullhorn users out there to provide input and vote on the feature they want to see. So if you have a feature you are looking for, please feel free to let me know, but I will ask you to search for it in Brainstorm, and if its there, vote for it, if its not there, then please enter it. Brainstorm helps everyone because it provides a way for us to track and organize all our feature requests, it also makes it easy for us to prioritize based on customer input, as well as let people see the status of their specific request.
Thanks for reading. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Jonathan Wall
Director of Product Marketing
Since we are still in the beginning of the year (and decade for that matter), it’s a good time to take a look at upcoming business trends and forecasts. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor at the Harvard Business School, recently shared what she anticipates will be the key trends of this decade in a recent post on the Harvard Business Review. One trend in particular really stood out to me. She notes that there will be a trend around “macro over micro”. “It’s still important to execute well, but the field of management will not yield many new insights as big as strategy, innovation, or quality.” She continues on with a statement that really struck a chord with me - “success will come from a focus on impact, not process“.
Though execution and process are key drivers of efficiency and profitability, at the end of the day, she is right, it’s the focus on impact that will lead to superior results.
In my early days as part of the Bullhorn team, I’ve already started to develop a theory about the Bullhorn Platform - a system that allows recruiting, sales and management to work together across key activities including managing job orders, client relationships, tracking and communicating with candidates, sourcing candidates, and posting jobs. I’m going to call this theory the Bullhorn Effect.
While Bullhorn essentially takes care of “micro” details and process, that in turn helps recruiters focus on “the macro,” the impact- ultimately filling jobs fast with quality candidates. Given the breadth of the Platform, my personal theory is that users will tend to have one, two, maybe three(tops), features that help them make an impact including tracking applicants or job orders, sourcing, or maybe its something else. And those capabilities - the impact of the Bullhorn Platform, that’s the the Bullhorn Effect.
I’m already starting to hear example of the Bullhorn Effect from customers, and really looking forward to digging into that more.
