Recruitment SAK Blog

19 October 2026 Over the weekend, Bullhorn experienced a major service outage following a reported cyber incident, leaving recruitment businesses unable to access key systems and services. Bullhorn confirmed on 17 October that it had detected a cyber incident and…

There’s some good news for recruitment businesses going into 2027. According to the latest figures from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), recruitment activity is forecast to grow by 3.1% in 2027, following growth of 4.4% in 2026. After a…

Candidates often have an acceptable travel time and/or distance for their commute to work, providing accurate estimates can often be tricky. A 30 minute commute in one area can cover a 30 mile radius, whereas another may be able to…

AI is quickly replacing traditional organic search results, major search engines now provide their AI response before displaying search results. Making sure AI knows and understands your business, so that it can reference you in their responses is the new…

Stop wasting time chasing candidates and checking if their information is still up to date and relevant. Our Vincere Log In module allows candidates to self serve their data, with any changes saving directly into your Vincere database. Unlike similar…

The use of AI to design and build websites is obviously something we have been keeping a very close eye on, as website design contributes to a good proportion of our projects and team employment. For those reading in a…

Getting data from Google Sheets into Bullhorn is tricky, there are tools that can help but you end up with missed records or duplications galore. Our customers asked if we had a solution, so we set about building the perfect…

Clean data is essential for a recruiter, so keeping spam candidates and job applications out of your CRM is paramount. The more spam candidates you have, the harder it is to place legit candidates and the more work your recruitment…

We’ve recently rolled out a small update across our WordPress job board plugins to further improve the reliability of the candidate application experience. Our plugins are designed to make it easy for recruitment agencies to publish vacancies on their website…

Most job alert systems don’t work well, they send the wrong jobs to the wrong candidates and as a result, we are often asked whether we know of any plugins that do job alerts well. The answer up until now…