Case Study: How PitchMe’s integration with Bullhorn enriched Allen Recruitment’s database and increased the placement rate
Allen Recruitment, an international recruitment consultancy firm, shares its one-year success after implementing PitchMe’s Bullhorn integration. Allen Recruitment has used the software to manage the database and keep it up-to-date, resulting in improved candidate marketing and higher placement rates.
“Before PitchMe’s Bullhorn integration, we would reach out to five or six candidates to get one who was interested. Now it’s three or four candidates interested because the data is relevant,” said Brian Cunningham, managing director of the Allen Recruitment.
Allen Recruitment’s Challenge
Allen recruitment has quite an impressive candidate database of several hundred thousand resumes and when the database of candidates is not up to date, it can lead to lost opportunities. Brian needed up to ten soursers and researchers to manage the database and keep it updated, which was not cost-effective and didn’t deliver the expected results. They encountered many cases when they had the relevant people but never reached out to them as their information was not updated in the database.
“There’s nothing worse than the fact that we had the candidate but we didn’t put them forward quick enough, or we didn’t put them forward at all. This was the problem we were looking to solve,” added Brian Cunningham.
For Brian, it has always been important to stay on top of the most innovative recruitment technologies to find top talent. He wanted Allen’s recruiters to be able to get more relevant information on candidates, have a more engaged and up to date database, not lose . people out of the process and be the first one to get to the right candidate.
“We want to be the reason they move job. Imagine if we presented our job to them when they were about to leave. And we were the reason they moved. Nobody else has that candidate and that’s gold,” added Brian Cunningham, managing director of the Allen Recruitment.
PitchMe Solution
PitchMe realized that the newly launched Bullhorn integrated solution was the solution Allen recruitment needed to revive its database, update the records, and add all the recent employment, skills, and contact information to outdated resumes. It took PitchMe team only 7 days to set everything up before Brian’s team saw the first results and had started benefiting from PitchMe integration.
“PitchMe worked closely with us, listened to us and has brought us an amazing solution that has a huge impact on our recruiters and getting in front of the right candidate at the right time. The ability to match now where they are today, with our current requirements, allows us to get to them before the other agencies do,” said Brian Cunningham.
Not only has the process of finding candidates become much faster, but they’ve also experienced an increase in placements and better candidate engagement. Additionally, using PitchMe’s platform has allowed them to keep their database up to date with minimal effort.
“So what PitchMe does is keeps the people in our database up to date. When we hit the match, we’re considering the best people. So speed was one of the matrices that we were looking to do. It means we’re able to react quicker, we’re able to get to the candidate first,” said Brian Cunningham.
Results
- Allen Recruitment cut the time and costs recruiters spend on database management.With PitchMe, they keep their database up to date with one click.
- Enrichment of the database increased the placement rate. In the past, the companywould have only had one candidate interested out of six, with a success rate of 16%. After using PitchMe’s integration with Bullhorn, the interest rate jumped to 66%, with four people interested out of six.
- PitchMe’s integration with Bullhorn keeps Allen’s team away from manual work thatusually took hours. Now, all they have to do is run automatch and pull out all the relevant candidates and then use automation to reach out to them.
- Due to PitchMe’s integration with Bullhorn, Allen’s team improved candidate marketing.They can now engage with candidates continually and when it’s time for them to find a new position, Allen Recruitment is the first thing that comes to their mind.
About PitchMe
PitchMe, established in 2017, is a leading skills-based hiring solution that matches companies with talent based on the most comprehensive picture of a candidate’s skills. PitchMe helps companies find talent they would have missed by extracting hundreds of data points from digital sources about a candidate’s validated, real-time skills.
About Allen Recruitment
Allen Recruitment Consulting is an international recruitment consultancy firm trusted by many companies across the globe since 1998, supporting their recruitment programs across multiple countries from their offices in Ireland, the UK, Poland, and the Netherlands. Learn more at pitchme.co