Bullhorn Live 2009 Opens this Week in Las Vegas

by TMT Newswire

Showcases Innovations and Best Practices to Help Staffing

Bullhorn, the global leader in On Demand, front office staffing and recruiting software, announced the start of its second user conference, Bullhorn Live 2009, taking place here at the Red Rock Casino, Spa and Resort now through February 5, 2009. The theme at this yearís Bullhorn Live is ìLive in Bullhornî and the focus is on helping staffing and recruiting firms drive growth by maximizing productivity of sourcing and sales through innovative use of new technologies and best practices from renowned industry experts.

Bullhorn will be demonstrating new technology innovations to drive productivity from both sides of the desk – recruiting and sales. Integrated Resume Searchô, which seamlessly integrates Bullhorn with Yahoo! HotJobs and CareerBuilder.com, as well as PowerSourceô, Bullhornís integration solution with Monster.com, will be showcased to speed up sourcing and placements. See related announcements, ìBullhorn Announces Integration with Yahoo! HotJobsî on February 2 and ìBullhorn Announces Real-Time Integration with CareerBuilder.com through Integrated Resume Searchî on January 26. A number of sessions will also focus on Bullhorn360ô, Bullhornís business intelligence solution that maximizes visibility into sales.

ìIn 2009, the staffing and recruiting industry needs to fire on all cylinders to achieve growth. Bullhorn is proud to be a driver of that growth by delivering competitive advantage and helping staffing and recruiting firms synchronize sales and recruiting for maximum productivity,î said Art Papas, CEO and co-founder of Bullhorn. ìOur customers tell us that they ëlive in Bullhorní and Bullhorn Live 2009 provides a tremendous opportunity for these global staffing and recruiting firms to learn and adopt innovative techniques and solutions and immediately apply them to their businesses to compete and grow, through faster generation of job orders, candidate sourcing and better management of customer relationships.î

Delivering Innovation in Candidate Sourcing

Bullhorn is a committed leader in developing and bringing to market innovations in candidate sourcing. Bullhornís Integrated Resume Search is the only solution to combine direct, real-time access to a number of premium job boards, including CareerBuilder.com and Yahoo! HotJobs as well as Monster.com through PowerSource, with an On Demand, Integrated Front office, dramatically saving time and increasing the productivity of recruiters during the sourcing and placement process. Integrated Resume Searchís seamless integration with premium job boards and Bullhorn enables a staffing and recruiting firmís front office to gain considerable strategic advantage through the automation of the entire sales and placement process, from generating job orders and landing searches right through sourcing and placement.

Bullhorn has also developed a new comprehensive sourcing track, debuting at Bullhorn Live 2009, with five news sessions designed to help recruiters and staffing professionals drive billings with new techniques, best practices and tips for making faster placements. The Bullhorn Live 2009 Sourcing track sessions features industry experts who will share their valuable knowledge, sourcing tips and tricks and technology best practices for social networks, job boards and more.

Driving Sales Productivity

Bullhorn understands that managing client relationships is critical to generating job orders and has designed its customer relationship management system (CRM) to let sales people target the exact needs of new and existing clients, automatically and proactively. Whether itís conducting sales campaigns to generate new job orders or tracking the needs of existing clients, Bullhorn dynamically provides visibility into client relationships. All client emails, notes and activities are tracked in real-time in the CRM and are linked to job orders and applicants. When prospective clients respond to email campaigns, it's easy to create a prospect record in the CRM, and when a job order is sent to the firm, it is easily parsed into the job management system. An alert is then fired off to recruiters to begin the sourcing and placement process. Sales managers, through real-time updates of all emails, notes and activities, retain 360 visibility into every client and prospect relationship assigned to each sales person. Call lists, assigned tasks, tearsheets and notes shorten and provide a full view of the sales cycle from initial contact to receipt of the job order. Bullhorn customers have experienced up to two-thirds fewer candidate submissions for interviews, as a result of sourcing higher-quality, more qualified candidates with Bullhorn, and up to 25 percent fewer calls to generate job orders.

Bullhorn reporting is organized for ease of access and use, including running standard and custom reports as well as ad hoc reports written by users with Bullhorn360 BizAuthor. These reports enable unprecedented visibility, easier access and administration of reports for analyzing financial and non-financial data and finding trends.

At Bullhorn Live 2009, recruiting industry expert Danny Cahill will deliver the keynote presentation ìSurvivor's Manual: Leading your Firm in a Turbulent Economy,î to help firms with the confidence to face the next several fiscal quarters with a little more certainty about where their business is headed. Cahill will share advice on what changes staffing and recruiting firms can make now to position themselves competitively for when the market turns.

Bullhorn is the staffing and recruiting industryís 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. Bullhornís 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 companyís 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 Bullhornís On Demand, integrated front office staffing and recruiting software.