{"id":1215,"date":"2012-02-28T18:42:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bullhorn.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2012-02-28T18:42:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T18:42:23","slug":"bullhorn-candidate-search-case-study-bowdoin-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullhorn.com\/eu\/blog\/bullhorn-candidate-search-case-study-bowdoin-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullhorn Candidate Search Case Study: The Bowdoin Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently caught up with Sarah Wachter, the Research and Data Manager at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoingroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bowdoin Group<\/a> to talk about their rollout of the new Candidate Search.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what she told me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jonathan Wall:<\/em>\u00a0 Tell me about the Bowdoin Group.<\/p>\n<p><em>S<\/em><em>arah Wachter:<\/em>\u00a0 The Bowdoin Group is an executive search firm based in Wellesley, MA.\u00a0 We have about 45 employees split between a permanent team that focuses on retained executive placements and other permanent placements, and then a contract team of about 12 people that performs IT contract placement.<\/p>\n<p><em>JW:<\/em> And what\u2019s your role at the Bowdoin Group?<\/p>\n<p><em>SW:<\/em> I am the Research and Data Manager, so I lead the research team that does sourcing and reporting for our retained clients and I\u2019m also kind of the chief fixer.\u00a0 I do a lot of vendor management, database management, resource strategy, along with employee training and best practices.\u00a0 Basically, my job is to make everything run as smoothly and efficiently as possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>JW:<\/em> Tell me about what kind of searches you historically have conducted using Bullhorn.<\/p>\n<p><em>SW:<\/em> We&#8217;ve used Advanced Search for our searches.\u00a0 Everyone at the Bowdoin Group has been responsible for sourcing candidates and entering them into Bullhorn and then retrieving them later. We&#8217;ve been in business for more than 16 years, so, as you can imagine there&#8217;s quite a lot of candidates in our system. We&#8217;ve made a number of configuration changes, and our data hasn&#8217;t always been as consistent as we want it to be. Historically we&#8217;ve done a mix of both keyword and Boolean search. I personally trained every new employee on Boolean syntax and search techniques.\u00a0 And it\u2019s the very structured grammar that Boolean requires that isn&#8217;t very intuitive for people to grasp.<\/p>\n<p><em>JW:<\/em> What are the benefits you&#8217;ve seen by switching to Candidate Search?<\/p>\n<p><em>SW:<\/em> Candidate Search is definitely easier to use and a lot prettier. One of the things we think is great are the suggested keywords.\u00a0 Having some suggested terms that are related to what I\u2019m already searching for can really help boost our accuracy. 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We go back to that company, we go back to that opening, pull it up, and run the search again. \u00a0We can very quickly find the people who were added in the last few months, and we start calling.\u00a0 That\u2019s tremendously valuable from a business perspective. We also just surveyed the team recently about how they felt about Candidate Search, and overall they really like it, feel it\u2019s easier to use and love the ability to quickly add additional criteria to a search, as that makes it easy to find exactly what they are looking for.<\/p>\n<p><em>JW:<\/em> Tell me about the training and rollout.<\/p>\n<p><em>SW:<\/em> When we rolled it out we had training for everyone, but have also recently held some small group trainings and walked through the specific searches they are working on.\u00a0 There was definitely a bit of \u201chey this is different,\u201d but once the team spent a bit of time and understood the changes, they\u2019re now like \u201chey this is better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>JW:<\/em>\u00a0 Do you have any advice for firms that are going to be adopting this?<\/p>\n<p><em>SW:<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Candidate Search is a conceptual shift as far as how to think about search, but once people understand how it works, they really embrace it. You need to take the time to make sure everyone is trained and productive.\u00a0\u00a0 Once you sit down with people and you explain that this is a change in how you are thinking about your search process, it is a lot more intuitive and a lot more straightforward.\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019re only used to Boolean or keyword searches, you now have something new, where it\u2019s easy to add in related terms, weight and prioritize terms, that you need to wrap your head around.<\/p>\n<p><em>JW:<\/em> What do you want to see in Candidate Search in the future?<\/p>\n<p><em>SW:<\/em> We\u2019d love to be able to search on years of experience, the way LinkedIn does it.\u00a0 And we\u2019d love to be able to mark candidates that we&#8217;ve already viewed. 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