Bullhorn ATS & CRM

Pros

Really easy to use, great for recruiting firms/agencies

Cons

Not great for internal recruiting, but thats what its marketed as

Pros

Easy to use, cost effective, customisable and bespoke to us. The file noting of candidate interactions, ability to easily merge profiles. It's a professional solution, so much better than the HRIS systems with their inbuilt ATS.
It's billed on per user, so its very cheap. The support team are excellent.

Cons

Rolling it out and customising was a challenge but was worth it. The mobile app with default customisation is pretty basic so needs work. Sometimes the viewing of CV's in the platform is clunky depending on the CV but still fine.

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Pros

I like that it's relatively easy to create pipelines of candidates, create jobs, track opportunities, and create tasks.

Cons

I wish Bullhorn would integrate candidate headshots (usually found on LinkedIn) to help identify candidates. I also find that the website will stop working properly after being open for about 5-6 hours and will need refreshing.

Pros

I thought it was easy to understand how to use the product.

Cons

Bullhorn required double entry and had workflows that were clunky and made efficiency tough to achieve.

Pros

It is relatively easy to use, process thorugh the job etc works./ The system works which is better than when I sued Vincere. The help desk does repsond quickly. You have to log. Onboarding is ok - strong processes. But like any larger company it is on you. You have to watch vieos to learn the system and people supporting changes regularly so you will find your knowledge within a year will be better than people supporting you. But as I say the help team will pass you on to experienced people if the problem exists. Overall is a good system, a larger company with the usual larger company processes.

Cons

Advertising - works but adding a job for multiple jobs can be long winded. Indexing we have had issues with, searching for candidates and not coming up, but they are on there. The biggest issue is Bullhorn partners, very expensive and not al that great.Be wary for all CRMs and Bullhorn when they repsond with yes we have a partner that can do that, for example text messaging. Creating a branded Cv should be easier. Parsing could be better. There answer is we have a partner. Some of this you expect the CRM to do, at the end of the day what are you paying for, if the answer is we have a partner.

Pros

Nothing much great to mention about. Except the Brand.

Cons

LinkedIn integration does not work.
Bullhorn Analytics was not implemented properly by the their vendor,

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Pros

great system to use easy and everything flows

Cons

there was not one thing i dint like about the platform

Pros

Makes it easy to enter and submit work hours and the format is easy to follow. Also their customer support team is awesome!

Cons

Sometimes logging into your account can be difficult.

Pros

I love that it's easy to sort through and use

Cons

I dislike that it can be a bit slow to run

Pros

Nothing to write home about. It is very dated

Cons

Slow, not intuitive and very clunky in the modern world

Pros

I have used this software by weekly and it has the strength to be the best ATS in the market. Its features are diverse and can be very efficient when used for long term.

Cons

I have to find some of the features as some of them are not visible in the main window of this framework.

Pros

Having the access to track my clients and candidates during processes

Cons

Sometimes it does crash but I guess it’s because of the amount of information on there.

Pros

i like the organized candidates profile and update every thing in this single database

Cons

all is serve well and perfect for the job

Pros

Bullhorn provides you the opportunity to gain experience tracking different clients' movements, positions, and prospects. Find the person you're looking for by calling the number. Bullhorn can link to Sense and send pre-programmed messages for first-day checks, end-of-week checks, etc., allowing me to keep in touch with my staff and learn about any problems they are experiencing as well. You may choose multiple tabs based on your needs and designate one as the default so that it always displays the relevant information. I also appreciate having the opportunity to record notes for each sale or hiring discussion and having the flexibility to amend those notes to keep both you and your coworkers informed.

Cons

A candidate must first be manually created, after which notes and modifications must be added. Speaking about job advertisements, I believe it has to be resolved. Additionally, for the workers I deal with, Pridestaff's broadcast messages occasionally arrive at the wrong time. If/when we entirely close the tab, we have to reopen it. These days, the sidebar is likewise outdated.

Pros

easy way to tract all the applicants records and maintain our data.

Cons

when we do mail merge on 999 it goes to span or junk not into the inbox.

Pros

Bullhorn is very easy to use. User friendly software.the main advantage of bullhorn is to finding non IT candidates easily.

Cons

Best Tool ever simple search easy understand very much helpful for non IT recuirements best matching candidates with valid contact information.

Pros

The tracking feature is good in bullhorn

Cons

The logo of bullhorn could be better than now.

Pros

Its help to reach the candidate easily with their contact details.

Cons

needed more credits views the new profiles.

Pros

The 'Last People Contacted' is a very useful tab to have auto-loaded. Finding candidates can be difficult without it considering you need their number memorized, if they have a common name, or their profile name is different than the name you call them (Charles vs Chuck).
The moving across stages from 'Connect' to 'Placement' is aesthetically pleasing and well designed.

Cons

Tracking which candidates are in play and submitted should be front and center on "My Dashboard". The cards available on "My Dashboard" are nearly all irrelevant to the recruiting lifecycle, making it fairly useless apart from "My Activity" if the admin sets some goals for you. Even the "Recruiting Manager" dashboard report is fairly useless as it only tracks candidates who's stage hasn't changed in 5 days. It is still important to track candidates within that 5 day timeframe so it should be easier to see that.
The Last Note should show up on "Latest Comment" on the candidates profile page. There's often 'one-too-many-clicks' instances or journeys that should be trackable by a ML engine, or just customer surveys, and then make those changes to the product, introducing a one-click suggestion button, or just making those actions easier to find via the profile.

Pros

The ease of navigation throughout the platform.

Cons

Would love to have the ability to mass import files - specifically candidate resumes.

Pros

I like that you can put as much information in Bullhorn about the candidate, my favourite feature would be adding notes and you can notify your manager of whatever changes you made by tagging them to internal recipients. It makes the job easier and faster.

Cons

Sometimes, Bullhorn gets laggy, it takes time to load. And sometimes I would receive an error message after clicking the 'save' button. Had to clear the cached or reset my laptop to refresh the software.

Pros

Bullhorn is the best ATS I have ever used. It is very user-friendly. It only took me a day to know my way around bullhorn. It allows you to edit fields while you are looking at the list. This is very helpful as you do not need to click on a specific link to have it edited. Also, I love that it is integrated with MS Exchange as email conversations are recorded and can be seen by all internal employees. In addition, it is very easy to track the progress of each requisition. Bullhorn also allows you to set up reminders which are very helpful for busy recruiters like me. I love that text messages are also recorded in the system. Lastly, they have an awesome technical support team! Way to go!

Cons

For me, Bullhorn can still improve on tearsheets. Recruiters should be able to edit fields without them having to click a specific link/candidate. It would be very beneficial if they would add this feature as most job postings are really fast-moving. Another thing that I have noticed is with duplicate candidates. Sometimes I add a specific candidate and it shows me, 50 plus duplicate candidates. When I try to click one, it's nowhere similar to the resume that I uploaded. I hope they can do something about this.

Pros

Bullhorn has helped us streamline considerably. It tracks everything from texts to emails by user and candidate/client.

Cons

There are so many features that are "so close" but not quite there yet. I do believe they will get there but it takes longer than anticipated for improvements to be implemented.

Pros

Ease of use and friendly GUI that makes navigation a breeze

Cons

Crappy when it comes to internal sourcing. Bullhorn sometimes displays some glitches when synced with some of the commercial job boards.

Pros

Did a decent job in all aspects but never a great job.
Product-wise it was decent to good
FAR better than Tempworks in functionality
A true CRM/ATS with modern-day capabilities - as most of the top 20 ATS's have

Cons

Customer service was lacking during presale, implementation, and during our migration
No help with "best practices" therefore they rely on their customer base to figure things out for themselves versus acting as professional advisors
Their initial salesmen were extremely "high pressure sales oriented" NOT focused on clients needs, wanted to close the deal
Ease of use is lacking therefore employees are reluctant to embrace it.