Ambition

Ambition was facing a range of issues with the business being on two different ATS systems.

In Australia, they were using JobAdder while in Asia and the UK they were on itris. “We had a lot of instability with JobAdder in Australia which resulted in a lot of downtime and it began impacting our business”, James explained. Itris was an older client services style application, which was hosted internally in Ambition’s Hong Kong office and serviced their other international offices. “We deemed this a business risk with the way it was distributed to our individual consultants”, James stated.

Ambition faced fragmentation and many reporting issues, trying to combine data from the two different systems. It was also difficult to integrate other products into their existing technology stack. This is when they started their search for a new system and landed on Bullhorn.

Ambition has been using Bullhorn since 2017 and it is proven to be a reliable system they can trust across their global operations. The platform has brought their whole team onto a single platform in the cloud. “This has enabled us to share data globally which is something we could never do previously”, James highlighted. It has also allowed their team to be more agile which has been especially important over the last couple of years. James said, “The team can work from anywhere which has obviously been a massive help during the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether it be working from a laptop, mobile phone or whilst on the road, Bullhorn’s cloud based system has been a game changer for us. Enabling us to be more mobile and flexible.”

Reporting has gotten much more flexible with Bullhorn as well. “The ability to have global reporting has been a huge win for us”, James stated. “This also has resulted in cost considerations by being able to reduce the number of products we use and streamline those integrations.” Since joining Bullhorn Ambition have adopted a number of Bullhorn’s Marketplace Partners into their ecosystem such as Astute Payroll, Broadbean and Volcanic to seamlessly power their operations. Overall “[Bullhorn’s] been great for us from a cost perspective, business continuity and internal processes”, James stated.

The Future

James feels that automation will be key for the future of recruitment so has been using Bullhorn Automation for almost a year now.. “We are very excited that Bullhorn have brought Bullhorn Automation in house and we are really excited to see how it develops. Bullhorn Automation is an industry gamechanger, we feel that anything that can make consultants more efficient through technology is going to be a big win.”