Category
ATS
Rating
4.1/5 (2255 Reviews)
Availability
HQ
Boston, United States
Pricing
Custom
Free tier
No
Best for
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What is Bullhorn?
Bullhorn is a recruiting platform serving staffing and recruiting agencies across professional, clerical and light industrial, healthcare, and executive search desks. The system of record covers candidates, clients, job orders, submissions, placements, and through the Middle Office product, timesheets and worker pay for contract and temporary programs. A job order represents a client open role, and every candidate submission, client rejection, interview and placement against that vacancy is logged against it. Recruiters mainly search and redeploy candidates already held in the agency database using Fast Find and AI matching, with resume parsing from email feeding new profiles in. The ATS and CRM share one database, so BD activity, client relationships and candidate pipeline sit together, with an AI layer called Amplify running across sourcing, search and match.
What are Bullhorn's key features?
Client records, job orders, submissions, and placements link in one system of record.
The Sales CRM tracks BD activity, lead pipelines, and client relationships.
VMS Access imports and updates job records from vendor management systems inside the ATS.
Amplify Chat is a staffing-specific intelligence layer over candidate and client data.
Middle Office adds timesheets, back-office management, and invoicing for contract desks.
How do staffing agencies use Bullhorn?
- Your contract desk is tracking timesheets in spreadsheets and paying contractors manually every week.
- A client calls about a submission and your recruiter has to dig through three tools to find the conversation history.
- You have dozens of open job orders across two desks and no consistent view of where each one stands without a meeting.
- You placed a contractor last year and have no automated alert when their assignment is close to ending.
Who is Bullhorn best for?
- Staffing firms on contractor and temp desks that need timesheets and pay-and-bill inside the same ATS
- Agencies across professional, clerical, light industrial, and healthcare that need one platform per vertical
- Smaller agencies that want a published entry plan and room to grow into the same platform larger firms run
What are Bullhorn's pros and cons?
Pros
- The CRM is built into the same platform as the ATS, keeping clients, candidates, and job orders together.
- The email gadget for Outlook and Gmail lets recruiters view records and log activity without switching apps.
- Fast Find and tearsheets let recruiters build and share shortlists quickly from the existing database.
- Converting a won deal into a job order takes one click, connecting BD activity directly to candidate matching.
Cons
- Timesheets, invoicing, and VMS time processing run through Middle Office, separate from the core ATS and CRM.
- Only the entry tiers publish a price; the tiers carrying the sales CRM and AI search are custom-quoted.
- Implementation is treated as a full project rather than a self-setup, so go-live needs internal time.
What are people saying about Bullhorn?
Reviewers generally treat Bullhorn as the system of record for agency work, valuing how candidates, clients, jobs and placements stay connected in one place rather than split across tools. The most persistent complaint is speed, with slow loading and glitches reported often enough that recruiters describe rerunning reports or resetting the system.
Consolidated from 2255 reviews across G2, Capterra · Updated August 14, 2026
How does Bullhorn compare to alternatives?
| Feature | Bullhorn | Ashby | Gem | Loxo | RecruitCRM |
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| Category | ATS | ATS | ATS | ATS | ATS |
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| Best for | Agency | In-House | In-House | Agency | Agency |
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