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Candidate Searching Just Got Much Easier - Introducing Universal Search
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 major social media sites, 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.
