Bullhorn Research Reveals the Best Sourcing Tools for Staffing and Recruiting Firms to Use to Stay Ahead of Their Competition

Best Practices Include Using LinkedIn to Perfect the Cold Call, Job Boards Still King in Sourcing Active Candidates, and Formal Referral Programs as the Most Effective for Sourcing both Active and Passive Candidates

Boston 10/17/2008 08:30 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)

Bullhorn, the global leader in On Demand, front office staffing and recruiting software, today released their latest research report, , “Top 6 Sourcing Best Practices: How Referrals and Cold Calls Can Keep You Ahead of Your Competition.” Based on a recent survey sent via email to nearly 34,000 staffing and recruiting professionals, this new report focuses on sourcing best practices from the fastest growing firms and reveals what tools and techniques are most effective to source and place candidates faster than the competition. Some key findings include never deleting candidate information from your database, online networks prove to be more effective for finding passive candidates , and job boards offer a significant advantage over other sourcing methods by listing candidates’ salary requirements. The full report, “, “Top 6 Sourcing Best Practices: How Referrals and Cold Calls Can Keep You Ahead of Your Competition” is available for a free download here.

Although recruiters today have a multitude of tools at their disposal that barely existed at all 10 years ago, these new tools are available to everyone, so it takes the right combination of the available sourcing tools to stay ahead of the competition. The key is balancing the latest trends with the established fundamentals of recruiting, like working the phones and maintaining relationships.

Other key statistics in this report include:

Forty percent of all respondents spend more than 12 hours a week sourcing.
Sixty-one percent of all respondents plan to increase use of online business networks in the next year.
Thirty-seven percent of the fastest-growing firms indicate referrals are the sourcing solution that leads to the most placements.
Thirty-nine percent of respondent’s source ten or less resumes to place a candidate.

Bullhorn is the staffing and recruiting industry’s only On Demand, integrated front office solution. Comprising email, calendaring, candidate sourcing, an applicant tracking solution, customer relationship management and job management, Bullhorn enables users to communicate and collaborate with contacts, candidates, colleagues and clients in real-time to generate, source and fill job orders, or make placements, at anytime and from anyplace. Bullhorn’s users include staffing and recruiting firms of all sizes, from a wide range of industries – including information technology, professional services, office/clerical and healthcare. The Bullhorn Blogger is the company’s online community where customers, partners, Bullhorn professionals and prospective customers share ideas and best practices to advance the productivity of the staffing and recruiting industry through the innovative use of Bullhorn’s On Demand, integrated front office staffing and recruiting software.

About Bullhorn, Inc.
Bullhorn is the global leader in On Demand, front office staffing and recruiting software, providing the only completely integrated front office solution for staffing and recruiting firms. Bullhorn's customers achieve the highest placement rates in the industry. By enabling recruiting, sales and management to live and work together, Bullhorn synchronizes sales and recruiting to generate, source and fill job orders in real-time, at anytime and from anyplace. Delivered through software as a service, Bullhorn continually meets the evolving business needs of its customers. More than 1,400 firms and 14,000 users worldwide, including some of the largest global staffing firms, partner with Bullhorn to meet the employment demands of the global economy. For more information, visit www.bullhorn.com or call +1(888)GoLive8.

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Media inquiries please contact:
Alison Kenney, Bullhorn
(781) 842-0801
akenney@bullhorn.com

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