Category
ATS/CRM
Rating
4.1/5 (2265 Reviews)
Availability
HQ
Boston, United States
Pricing
Custom
Free tier
No
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What is Bullhorn?
Bullhorn is a recruiting platform for staffing and recruiting agencies across professional, clerical, light industrial, healthcare and executive search desks. A job order represents a client vacancy, and every submission, rejection, interview and placement against it is logged there. Recruiters mainly search and redeploy candidates already in the agency database using Fast Find and AI matching. 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?
- A contract staffing desk uses Bullhorn's Middle Office to run timesheets, back-office management and contractor pay inside the same platform as the ATS.
- A multi-desk agency uses Bullhorn's Sales CRM to track BD activity and client lead pipelines alongside candidate and job-order records.
- An agency on VMS-managed accounts uses Bullhorn's VMS Access to pull job orders in directly from the vendor management system.
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 2265 reviews across G2, Capterra · Updated October 11, 2026
How does Bullhorn compare to alternatives?
| Feature | Bullhorn | Ashby | Gem | Loxo | RecruitCRM |
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| Category | ATS/CRM | ATS/CRM | ATS/CRM | ATS/CRM | ATS/CRM |
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| Best for | Agency | In-House | In-House | Agency | Agency |
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