Bullhorn ATS & CRM vs. LinkedIn Talent Hub

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
Score 6.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Bullhorn Recruitment CRM is a SaaS based solution that offers a suite of features typical of applicant tracking systems: a mobile app, batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels, instantaneous posting to multiple job boards, resume parsing, and data and document uploading.
$99
per month per user
LinkedIn Talent Hub
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
LinkedIn Talent is a recruiting solution. It offers core ATS capabilities, as well as proactive recruitment outreach tailored to LinkedIn’s site. LinkedIn Talent also enables competitive insights and recruitment marketing.N/A
Pricing
Bullhorn ATS & CRMLinkedIn Talent Hub
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Pricing Offerings
Bullhorn ATS & CRMLinkedIn Talent Hub
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Bullhorn ATS & CRMLinkedIn Talent Hub
Considered Both Products
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
Chose Bullhorn ATS & CRM
We used custom match as well, Bullhorn is easier, more modern, and tech savy. I prefer Bullhorn to that because there are more things to see and do with each candidate. I just sometimes forget about candidates, so tasks would be nice to remind me what I need to do next with …
Chose Bullhorn ATS & CRM
Bullhorn is much better overall and integrates more smoothly with our other databases and systems. It has been very helpful for me to keep organized and work with other branches of our company.
Chose Bullhorn ATS & CRM
We've used LinkedIn Recruiting, Taleo, and JazzHR.
LinkedIn Talent Hub
Chose LinkedIn Talent Hub
We use Bullhorn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and Career Builder. I like Linked In for my higher level candidates and I like being able to see the person's picture, seeing how involved they are in their current position. I use LinkedIn for staffing for direct placement positions and …
Chose LinkedIn Talent Hub
All of these platforms have their pros and cons - none are perfect! I like the connectivity of LinkedIn Talent, and the exposure it brings. It is also fairly easy to use. However, we have chosen to utilize Workable more, as it has better integration options, a larger job board …
Chose LinkedIn Talent Hub
Taleo is new to me, but so far seems to cover all sides of talent acquisition. BirdDogHR is great for smaller operations as a simple model with good but minimal options. Salesforce is a great CRM but more for sales than people management. Bullhorn used to be great but the …
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Features
Bullhorn ATS & CRMLinkedIn Talent Hub
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
5.5
57 Ratings
37% below category average
LinkedIn Talent Hub
7.1
77 Ratings
12% below category average
Job Requisition Management5.856 Ratings4.263 Ratings
Company Website Posting5.348 Ratings7.167 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.222 Ratings8.067 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting6.027 Ratings7.169 Ratings
Customized Application Form4.739 Ratings7.159 Ratings
Resume Management5.757 Ratings7.165 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention4.954 Ratings7.953 Ratings
Candidate Search5.657 Ratings8.076 Ratings
Applicant Tracking5.757 Ratings8.058 Ratings
Collaboration5.152 Ratings8.064 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation5.351 Ratings7.256 Ratings
Email Templates5.554 Ratings6.165 Ratings
User Permissions5.248 Ratings6.160 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts5.151 Ratings6.170 Ratings
Reporting5.451 Ratings7.761 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bullhorn ATS & CRMLinkedIn Talent Hub
Likelihood to Recommend
5.7
(79 ratings)
7.1
(79 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
2.1
(13 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
6.7
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(10 ratings)
7.5
(22 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bullhorn ATS & CRMLinkedIn Talent Hub
Likelihood to Recommend
Bullhorn
Bullhorn served as a very reliable and thorough tracking system for contacts, discovering prospects, and maintaining track of all relevant data. There are many customization options, strong search results, and sensible workflows. Excellent reporting tool. When we needed to find new resumes but all we could find were talents who had previously been discovered, it was less appropriate. Job Boards outperformed Bull Horn in terms of speed and quality.
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LinkedIn
I really feel like [LinkedIn Talent Hub] has great potential to be used by many many companies. I think if it is made a little more user friendly with a little more development on the back end to remove some bugs, this could be a potential game changer. I have enjoyed working and getting to know this.
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Pros
Bullhorn
  • It provides the contact details of a candidate relevant to the job. All details are with a user-friendly interface that anyone can use the application.
  • The specific details given by Bullhorn ATS & CRM are unbelievable. One place and you can make a decision about hiring or not hiring.
  • The messaging automation feature again helps to save our time.
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LinkedIn
  • Source of talent - LinkedIn has become the #1 place to engage talent.
  • Targeting / advertising / sponsoring employment ads are very effective. They are costly, but effective.
  • Connecting with talent via InMails and ability to send InMails to a pretty targeted audience with ease is great. This allows you to reach out/connect fast with people that "fit" what you are looking for. Other sites for recruiting, etc. are hit and miss. The quality of results is the strongest on LinkedIn and has been for many, many years.
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Cons
Bullhorn
  • Reporting: out of the box reporting is not very detailed or easy to navigate. In order to get better detailed and specific reports, you either need their Canvas product or pay for a 3rd party vendor.
  • Customization: will get better with NOVO Experience update, but many users still don't have it. Right now many fields and order are not customizable
  • Many features Bullhorn can do are not apparent to the user, often times you have to call in the figure things out.
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LinkedIn
  • Reporting. Major lacking here. If a job is closed then reopened (which that feature was recently removed), all reporting is wiped clean and picked back up with the "reopen" date. So it doesn't give a full history of the job activity.
  • Lacks adequate approvals in the system.
  • If you're a company with a risk of audits, I would not recommend Talent Hub. They lack compliance: the system allows us to "hire" someone who never applied to the job. Req history could be incomplete with the way reporting functions are set up. The system puts passive "sourced" candidates and applicants in the same bucket for pipeline workflows. Disposition status is inadequate and greatly lacking, etc.
  • Dashboard is not customizable.
  • We do not have our own unique req IDs. The system generates project IDs but these numbers are shared with all their clients, they're not unique to Ora so they are somewhat random and not in order.
  • They do not differentiate between a networking project and an approved requisition.
  • There's more, too many to list.
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Likelihood to Renew
Bullhorn
We have about 2 years left on our current contract; It would take a major change in the ATS marketplace for us to strongly consider opting out of renewal given the time and effort we have dedicated to building our our Bullhorn system. I will take the time to revisit with some of the competition down the road, but Bullhorn acquired our runner up, MaxHire, about a year back and continues to offer a solid product suite for our current and future needs.
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LinkedIn
No answers on this topic
Usability
Bullhorn
It isn't the best ATS out there. It lacks on both the recruitment and sales side. There is no way to differentiate between prospects, candidates, and clients. There isn't a way to merge accounts and names, so there are many duplicates. Too may paid add ons. I had a much longer review written up and the page just deleted it, but I wouldn't recommend Bullhorn first or even third. It feels like it hasn't been fully realized yet. There are certainly some good things about the product, but more areas where they can improve.
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LinkedIn
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Bullhorn
It's been a nightmare experience. The initial sales team were brilliant, and the customer service is great from the tech team - they get in touch with you quickly. However; I was often finding workarounds myself, or being advised workarounds instead of having issues resolved (example - The DPA/Non DPA issue - an Excel spreadsheet can do this, yet a CRM cannot?). I was debited on the incorrect date & then when I requested they refund until the due date, I was re-debited again on the correct date. The communication was poor - their billing team are based in the US and there was no acknowledgement of the mistake. My initial consultant chased them down for me, and advised me of their error. Lucky. The product was oversold. For example; I was advised their 'merge docs' feature would allow me to pull data directly from the 'Overview,' 'Work Histories' which later proved to be false. Finally, when I requested to end my contract & transfer my data (I advised a specific date I needed it, when my CRM would be ready) they advised it would take 15 business days & I was to put no further data in my system during that 15 days, and then gave me my data after 3. I now have no CRM for 4 weeks
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LinkedIn
Although we never experienced any issues with the LinkedIn Talent platform or required any support, we always knew in the event that we did need assistance, it was readily available. LinkedIn as a whole is always very supportive and responsive whenever I've had any issues or even a simple question in the past. I'm sure anyone experiencing difficulties with the platform would have a resolution from the support team just about instantly.
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Alternatives Considered
Bullhorn
Breathe is a great tool for smaller internal recruitment teams and I have previously used an in-house built system similar however Bullhorn is something you can use across larger businesses and growing SME's it works well for international businesses as everything is updated in real-time. The support function is excellent and the training tools for new starters are super helpful for our L&D team. Your account manager is also great for assisting in personalising sections to make them more business specific.
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LinkedIn
It's definitely better than other competitors because of one a better pool of candidates, who are well categorised and filtered, and the database is well updated. Also, it has a better UI with end to end hiring requirement management, that helps to make hiring faster and smarter. The UX though is a bit laggy, which can be improved
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Return on Investment
Bullhorn
  • Bullhorn has helped with the standardization of data which allows us to track our high, low and in between individuals. It allows for corporate bench marks to be tracked. It also allows for a closer look at all of the data points to make decisions versus making decisions based on perceptions. The data has definitely helped us make better business decisions because of the reporting capabilities.
  • Bullhorn has some great marketplace partners and additional products like VMS Access that help with your VMS clients. This is a real time saver.
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LinkedIn
  • Positive impact. The tool has helped us in finding quality candidates for our hard to fill positions!
  • Helps in “pipelining” even after we fill a position, we make a folder of prospective candidates that we find through the platform. This list is then revisited once we have additional positions!
  • Outreach to global candidates. We have an office in Spain and we have found so many qualified candidates on the platform to fill those positions!
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