Bullhorn Reinvents Candidate Search

New ‘artificial intelligence’ functionality in Winter 2012 release

Bullhorn today announces the launch of the most advanced candidate search tool in the recruitment software market. The tool is included in this Winter’s release of the company’s applicant tracking software. The search tool provides more accurate results, plus a newly streamlined interface, saving recruiters time on every CV database search they perform.

The candidate search function suggests the terms most likely to produce the best matching candidates by continuously learning from millions of searches and CVs using its built in artificial intelligence. The new tool examines a job, candidate or user-entered keywords and suggests additions. For example, if a recruiter searches for ‘Java’ and ‘J2EE’, it offers related terms such as ‘Java Server Pages’, ‘XML’ and ‘web services’. The candidate search arms new recruiters with domain expertise that would otherwise take months to gain and helps any recruiter asked by a client about a skill they aren’t familiar with.

“Almost every job starts by searching for candidates, so recruiters who execute faster and send out their very best candidates gain a huge advantage over less agile competitors”, comments Peter Linas, EMEA MD of Bullhorn. “Accelerating recruiter effectiveness, especially for new hires, means filling more jobs and boosting profitability.”

The new candidate search tool further enhances recruiter productivity by providing:

• Drag and drop search builder - Rapidly build searches by clicking and dragging search terms to include, prioritise, or exclude.
• Personalisation - Tailor the fields, columns and appearance of search results to maximise personal productivity.
• Collaboration - Save the best searches associated with a job, client or contact and share them with colleagues.
• Unified searching - Save time by searching across CVs, notes and attachments all from one screen.

In addition to candidate search, the Bullhorn Winter 2012 release delivers more than 130 updates and fixes including improvements to web response tracking that makes it easier to follow candidates from first touch through to placement, as well as API updates, email and calendar integration improvements.

The Bullhorn Winter 2012 release will be available to all Bullhorn customers early next year.

For more information, comment or interview opportunities, please contact:
Topline Comunications
bullhorn@toplinecomms.com
+44 (0)207 580 6502

About Bullhorn
Bullhorn is the global leader in online recruitment software, providing the only fully integrated applicant tracking and customer relationship management system paired with social media recruiting and business development tools. Delivered through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Bullhorn is backed by the most comprehensive roster of cloud-based partner solutions and continues to meet the evolving business and recruitment needs of over 5,000 clients and 45,000 users across 35 countries. Privately owned, Bullhorn is principally backed by Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst Partners.

For more information, visit: www.bullhornsoftware.co.uk