Recruiting Professionals Vote Job Boards as Most Productive Candidate Source

Bullhorn releases results of online sourcing survey.

Bullhorn today released the results of its online staffing solution survey. Of 205 survey respondents, 56 percent said Internet job boards are their most productive source of candidates. Eight percent of respondents said newspaper ads are the most productive, and 6 percent indicated that job fairs are their most productive source. Finally, 30 percent of respondents listed other, which includes referrals and social networks.

The results of the Bullhorn online sourcing survey align with predicted trends for 2007. According to a recent article from Kevin Wheeler at ERE.net, corporate websites and job boards like Monster and CareerBuilder.com that have advanced search options will eventually replace other methods of sourcing candidates such as direct and personal referrals. Bullhorn’s Dragnet enables recruiters to create candidate search agents against open job orders in Bullhorn’s staffing solution, selecting multiple job boards and sites to search and harvest resumes. Once a search is completed, Dragnet automatically parses the highest ranked candidates into Bullhorn’s staffing and recruiting software, transforming the sourcing of candidates from a laborious, single minded task into a highly automated process that allows the recruiter to focus on the quality and speed of making multiple placements.

Each week, Bullhorn posts a brief survey on its website for the thousands of staffing and recruiting professionals who visit www.Bullhorn.com, which is one of the industry’s most visited websites with 40,000 unique visitors each month and more than 5 million page requests daily. Bullhorn has established one of the largest online communities for the staffing and recruiting industry. The interactivity of the community, which happens in real time, is facilitated by the Bullhorn Blogger.

Bullhorn is the staffing and recruiting industry’s only On Demand, integrated front-office solution. Comprised of sourcing, email/groupware, applicant tracking system, 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 is used by more than 600 customers and 7,500 users worldwide, including emerging, medium and large staffing and recruiting firms that serve a wide range of industries. Information technology, professional services, office/clerical and healthcare represent a few of the many job markets Bullhorn services by enabling staffing and recruiting professionals to generate job orders, land searches and place all types of prospective candidates from temporary workers to permanently placed executives.