Hunter Recruitment Advisors Case Study

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ABOUT

Hunter Recruitment Advisors (HRA) was founded in 2014 by Aaron Wynn, with the mission to provide small- and medium-sized businesses enterprise-level corporate recruiting teams and recruitment marketing strategies that will allow their businesses to brand themselves to their future candidates. HRA provides internal corporate recruitment support and recruitment marketing strategies to make SMBs more competitive and to provide a better way of recruiting for its customers.

Amidst the difficult U.S. labor market, Hunter Recruitment Advisors has grown exponentially thanks in part to SMB owners recognizing the need to differentiate themselves in a crowded market vying for the small amount of qualified labor resources available. HRA provides businesses with talent strategies for recruitment operations and marketing that enable the SMB owner’s team to incorporate them into their own organization or to have HRA’s team of recruiters and marketers do it for them. It’s this level of flexibility and partnership that has set Hunter Recruitment apart.

“What we try to do is provide clients with researched, quality information so that they can make informed business decisions.”

– Aaron Wynn, President, Hunter Recruitment Advisors

Comparable to a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider, which allows companies to outsource all or part of their recruitment function, Hunter Recruitment Advisors acts as an extension of each clients’ employer brand, so that the candidates do not perceive they are working with an external provider. Since its founding eight years ago, HRA now has more than 25 employees and consultants, and the company’s revenue has grown by 500%.

WHY HUNTER RECRUITMENT PARTNERS WITH JAZZHR

Today’s challenging labor market makes it harder than ever for small- and medium-sized companies to efficiently source, screen, interview, hire, and onboard quality employees. So Hunter Recruitment Advisors partners with SMBs to develop leading-edge recruiting and recruitment marketing strategies, offers internal recruiting support, and provides advanced technology to save time and effort in recruiting.

But as HRA grew, it realized that it needed a strong technology partner in the recruiting space that could offer technology and expertise. Initially, the company relied on the technology and talent networks of its clients. But often, clients did not have the right recruitment technology stack to perform the tedious daily tasks and manage the complexity of recruiting.

Specifically, client applicant tracking systems (ATS) did not offer the right capabilities to make it easy for applicants to apply. This negatively impacted the candidate pool and created a less than optimal candidate experience for job seekers. HRA recognized that it needed advanced recruitment software that could help create a better candidate experience, reduce the complexity of the application process, save money, and find better candidates.

“As a recruitment marketing company, we are always thinking about the candidate experience. So many applicant tracking systems require numerous standards that make it challenging for a client’s candidate to apply by a mobile device. Seventy-five percent of all of our candidates are applying with the use of their phone. As a result this creates a barrier to maximizing their talent pool.”

Simply, Hunter Recruitment Advisors was trying to overcome these common recruiting challenges:

Client ATS technology was insufficient for the complexities of modern recruiting
Recruiting teams lacked the resources and expertise to establish a strong employer brand
Clients had tapped out their talent networks and needed new pools of candidates

A Partnership for Modern Recruiting Needs

Hunter Recruitment Advisors realized that the company could provide clients with the best technology and internal support by partnering with an experienced recruiting technology provider. This included a recruitment software partner that could provide the right pricing, technology, and experience for their small- and mid-size business clients.

HRA needed a partner that could offer:

Affordable, flexible pricing to fit any team size
Advanced recruitment software with the right capabilities.
Industry expertise to help create the best quality candidate, recruiter, and hiring team experiences

Hunter Recruitment Advisors ultimately selected JazzHR as its partner of choice. JazzHR offers powerful, user-friendly, award-winning recruitment software that scales as companies grow to find and hire great talent.

“The fact that JazzHR provides an entry-level tier system for a small business is fantastic. It’s very affordable, it gives them the basic tools that they need to get up and running, and when the time comes that they get a little bigger they can move into that next level which is great.”

– Aaron Wynn, President, Hunter Recruitment Advisors

HOW HUNTER RECRUITMENT ADVISORS USES JAZZHR

Hunter Recruitment Advisors transformed its recruiting capabilities after partnering with JazzHR. The partnership brought new support, strategies, and technology to expand service levels to clients as well as allowing them to grow internally. HRA is now better equipped to help clients build their employer brands and expand recruiting efforts.

JazzHR empowered HRA to provide recruitment software that makes it possible to:

Employ strategies with all the benefits and capabilities, including screening questions, texting, posting to numerous job boards and easily communicate to their team in the system
Leverage the discussion tab to communicate and track notes for greater collaboration among hiring teams
Take advantage of pricing options to scale up or down, similar to the existing HRA model
Streamline the application process and support recruitment marketing initiatives to create a stronger candidate experience

Transparent communication between recruiters, hiring teams, and candidates is essential to providing the best hiring experience. Combining JazzHR industry-leading recruitment technology with a personal level of care and attention, Hunter Recruitment Advisors is giving clients a world-class hiring experience to help them compete in today’s market.

Results

"With the use of JazzHR’s Indeed Apply function, the ability to apply to a client’s role takes no more than three clicks. And that in itself gives JazzHR a leg up over so many of your competitors.”

Hunter Recruitment Advisors has achieved significant wins for clients as well as within its own business since partnering with JazzHR. HRA has referred 27 new customers to JazzHR over the last three years. And the company revenue has grown by 500%, with JazzHR playing a supporting role in this growth.

Perhaps most importantly, partnering with JazzHR has enabled HRA to help clients expand their recruiting success. Prior to using JazzHR, client job posting needs were muted because their jobs were not often found in national searches. Partnering with JazzHR has allowed Hunter Recruitment Advisors to provide a megaphone to clients to compete on a national stage. JazzHR empowers clients to be independent for the long-term.

“So many people look at JazzHR as an HR tool — and it is. But ultimately, it’s used to market to the public. It’s a recruitment marketing tool. You can’t hire someone until you bring them into the process. In order to do that, you must find a way to reach your target audience. JazzHR allows you to:

Be able to go to highest profiled job board

Send messages via text campaigns

Send out personalized LinkedIn and Facebook account messages with new job postings

Be searchable by prospective candidates who are using web browsers to search for roles outside of the traditional job boards.”

In addition, HRA recognizes the power of JazzHR as a tool for sustainable recruitment. By creating a system that clients can eventually execute individually, HRA provides the right mix of tools for client organizations to run and maintain recruiting on their own if they desire. That’s what makes JazzHR so valuable as it provides affordable recruitment software that they can easily use on their own to make them more independent for the long-term.

ABOUT JAZZHR

JazzHR is powerful, user-friendly, and affordable recruiting software that is purpose-built to help growing SMBs exceed their recruiting goals. JazzHR’s groundbreaking software replaces time-consuming, manual hiring processes with an intuitive applicant tracking system that helps recruiters and hiring managers build an effective recruiting process that results in great hires. To learn more about JazzHR, visit www.jazzhr.com or follow us at twitter.com/JazzDotCo.

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