Press for Bullhorn

Bullhorn today released its January Job Opportunity Report, benchmarking new job openings by region and sector to identify bright spots in employment. According to Bullhorn's data, every region experienced a month-over-month increase in job openings. The Northeast and Southeast regions (33 percent) experienced the greatest increase month-over-month in January, but year-over-year, the Southwest had the largest increase (9 percent). Only the Mid-Atlantic experienced a year-over-year decrease (-5 percent). Meanwhile, month-over-month and year-over-year job openings increased in the majority of all sectors of the economy.

Enter Art Papas, CEO of Bullhorn, a recruiting software firm whose web-based products like Reach and Marketplace are used by over 45,000 recruiters in 35 countries to handle more than 150,000 job orders and placements every month.

According to Papas, here are some ways any small business can take advantage of techniques used by professional recruiters:

We've had two consecutive months of good jobs reports, leading to a reduction in the national unemployment rate. Here in Massachusetts, we continue to outpace the rest of the country when it comes to jobs.

Where are the new jobs coming from in 2012, and how do you go about landing one?

Art Papas, CEO of Bullhorn, a Boston-based technology company for the recruiting industry, helps us break down the numbers and look ahead to the new year

Today, Bullhorn, Inc. announced that more than 35,000 recruiters are helping put people to work by using Bullhorn Reach. Bullhorn Reach is a social recruiting platform that makes it easy for recruiters and candidates to connect through social media. Using the free Bullhorn Reach edition, corporate HR and individual recruiters can post jobs to their social networks, identify qualified candidates and increase their presence through their customized and search engine-optimized profile pages.