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CCS swapped spreadsheets for a referral engine inside Bullhorn.

Referrals went from a manual hassle to their #1 talent channel, outperforming every job board, including ZipRecruiter.

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798%

return on investment, with referrals now their #1 channel, ahead of every job board.

798%
return on investment
25.6%
of placements from referrals (their #1 channel)
3,444
ambassadors sharing jobs
113
referral placements (YTD)
Results at a glance

The short version.

798%.
25.6%, their number one talent channel, ahead of job boards including ZipRecruiter.
3,444 ambassadors.
01
The challenge

A real opportunity, buried in spreadsheets.

For CCS, employee referrals were a real opportunity, but the process worked against them. Recruiters spent hours in Excel, candidate details and bonus payments slipped through the cracks, and inconsistent follow-up damaged relationships. A cheap generalist platform made it worse: submissions dropped off and the team got frustrated.

02
How we helped

One end-to-end system, fully inside Bullhorn.

01

Mobile-first capture

Field employees submit referrals from their phones, wherever they are on the job.

02

Real-time sync

Submissions land in recruiters' inboxes and Bullhorn instantly, with full attribution.

03

Automated tracking

Notifications and status tracking removed the manual data entry that used to bog the team down.

04

A feedback loop

Recruiters refine their messaging over time, so the program keeps getting better.

Referrals became #1

A quarter of all placements, from people they already knew.

25.6%
of placements come from referrals, ahead of every job board.
The Indiana opportunity

An unexpected project appeared in a small Indiana town where CCS had zero presence. Through Staffing Referrals, CCS built a pipeline of 70 qualified candidates. When the project scope changed, those referrals filled urgent roles on other projects, agility a job board can't match.

Staffing Referrals isn't just nice to have, it's essential. I don't understand how construction staffing companies run referral programs without it.
Rich Hughes, VP of Recruiting · CCS Construction Staffing
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