Friday 16 October 2009

Video job adverts to the masses!

Have you been looking at Broadbean lately? Just the same as normal and the same as it has always been well you are wrong!

When doing some testing on the Bullhorn to Broadbean, there was a new field which looked like I hadnt seen it before the

Paste the URL to your video clip here

So that 3d job advert to the masses has taken a step closer and everyone now has the chance to make their recruitment consultants famous!

Pity as I have the perfect face for audioboo....

Wednesday 14 October 2009

Bullhorn implementation in the UK Part2/6

The Planning phase is an interesting time as it is where the Sales agreement meets the Analysis phase and where the extras can appear.

Hank is keen to get the Statement of Work signed off and create a Project Plan, whilst I am keen to work out where this fits in the overall project. You can guess there were a lot of versions of the document before it was agreed and signed off.

Our project has the inclusion of Broadbean integration as part of the commitment and this formed part of the spec. Like may systems very few (and I mean very few, you know who you are) actually track the responses against the advert and the source truly. Most add the candidates against the Job and Bullhorn is no different.

Another part of this phase is the pre implementation training, our recruitment application team jumped on a plane to Boston to get the training face to face. Our 3 staff were very well looked after and a big thank you to Barry and his team for looking after them.

It was at this stage I came across my first ?that will be extra moment? and it was handled very professionally by the European Sales Director and we all learned from it. For anyone else implementing make sure you know how many documents you create from the system and which fields are used to merge into them, as this done by engineers with Bullhorn.

Dealing with contractors professional service companies in CRM systems has never been easy and we spent loads of time at Spring getting this correct, it doesn't exist in Bullhorn really so we worked out a work round till we could design it together after the Go Live and before the Sage integration.

At version 4, we had a signed Statement of Work and a Project plan, we have 7 weeks to go live and we were going to learn a lot together. Roll on 26th October.