Bullhorn

Virtually every Applicant Tracking System on the market is designed for "corporate recruiting" (a company hiring an employee to work for them). Bullhorn is fundamentally different. It is built almost exclusively for staffing agencies and headhunters—companies that find candidates to work for *other* companies. Because staffing agencies live and die by their ability to place candidates quickly, Bullhorn acts much more like a high-speed sales CRM than a traditional HR tool. A headhunter using Bullhorn can track both their candidate pipeline and their client pipeline in the same interface. They can track that candidate "John" interviewed at "Microsoft" on Tuesday, and then track the invoice sent to Microsoft for their 20% placement fee on Wednesday. It is heavily optimized for speed. Staffing recruiters make hundreds of phone calls a day. Bullhorn parses resumes in milliseconds, integrates flawlessly with VoIP phone systems to log call notes automatically, and provides massive search capabilities allowing a recruiter to instantly pull up every "Java Developer in Austin" from their database the second a client requests one.