Case Study: HCS Healthcare achieves 30–40% faster reference checks and faster hiring with Bullhorn (integrated with SkillSurvey)

HCS Healthcare Differentiates by Delivering Reference Checking as a Service

HCS Healthcare is a mid-size, national healthcare workforce solutions firm that places clinical and non-clinical staff and executives. To differentiate themselves, they wanted to offer fully reference-checked candidates for faster placements, but manual, phone-based reference checks were slow and time-consuming, limiting checks to only a few candidates and typically only at time of placement.

In 2015 HCS integrated SkillSurvey Reference with their Bullhorn ATS & CRM to automate reference requests, use more than 170 job-specific surveys, and enable mobile responses. The change let recruiters request checks in about a minute, run checks earlier in the process, and scale outreach—resulting in references returned 30–40% faster, double the number of candidates they can screen, an average of 3.1 references per candidate, over 17,000 candidates entered in two years, and a passive candidate database with a high share of manager-level prospects.

HCS Healthcare

Gilda Juarez

Operations Manager