Boulevard Transforms Hiring with AI-Powered CoPilot
Boulevard reduces time-to-hire by up to 30% using CoPilot’s AI-powered sourcing.
- Industry: Software (Client Experience Platform)
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Website: Join Boulevard
- Employees: 250
Boulevard, a client experience platform for appointment-based, self-care businesses, has leveraged AI to enhance its talent acquisition process. By adopting CoPilot from Findem.ai, Boulevard has significantly improved its candidate sourcing. CoPilot aggregates data from multiple channels—such as inbound candidates, CRM, and ATS—allowing Boulevard to streamline its hiring process and ultimately hire 25-30% faster. This improvement has become even more critical given the recent 10% decline in candidate outreach response rates over the past few years.
With a team of 250 employees, Boulevard needed to optimize its talent acquisition process. Despite using various sourcing tools like LinkedIn, the team struggled to efficiently identify the right candidates. The existing tools lacked sufficient AI-driven capabilities, which made managing multiple sourcing channels while maintaining a positive candidate experience a challenge.
Boulevard became a design partner for Findem’s CoPilot, an AI-powered sourcing tool that aggregates candidates from multiple channels and ranks them based on factors like warmth, experience, and behavioral signals. This holistic approach enables Boulevard to find the best candidates without having to start projects from scratch, ensuring efficiency and precision in the hiring process.
By adopting CoPilot, Boulevard has streamlined candidate sourcing, improving hiring speed and candidate experience. CoPilot's AI-driven platform automatically aggregates candidates from all sourcing channels and ranks them based on key factors such as engagement level, action, and behavioral signals. This automation allows Boulevard to focus on high-priority, engaged candidates, enhancing the overall talent experience, which is a key differentiator in a competitive job market. The platform's conversational interface allows the team to easily create job descriptions, launch searches, and refine candidate pools dynamically, making it a valuable tool in the hiring process.
Since implementing CoPilot, Boulevard has reduced its time-to-hire by 25-30%, making its first hire immediately after adopting the platform. This improvement has been crucial, especially in light of declining candidate engagement rates across the industry. The ability to identify relevant candidates quickly has helped Boulevard maintain a positive talent experience, which remains a competitive advantage in the job market.
- 25-30%: Reduction in time-to-hire.
- 10%: Decline in candidate outreach response rates over the past few years.
"The market remains competitive, despite the macroeconomic climate. Findem and CoPilot have allowed us to hyper-target talent that most closely matches our needs more quickly and with greater confidence. Speed and experience are how we’re able to differentiate ourselves in the labor market, and Findem’s tooling enables this philosophy," said Baker, Boulevard's Talent Acquisition Leader.
Boulevard plans to expand the use of AI tools like CoPilot into other stages of the hiring process, including automating scheduling. The company is also looking to enhance role awareness through AI-driven platforms and explore additional ways to improve the candidate experience beyond sourcing.
- Automating: Scheduling tasks to improve efficiency.
- Enhancing: Awareness of open roles through AI-driven platforms.
- Exploring: Additional AI-driven innovations to further enhance the candidate experience.
Through its partnership with Findem.ai and the adoption of CoPilot, Boulevard has revolutionized its talent acquisition process. By leveraging AI to source and rank candidates more efficiently, Boulevard has improved its hiring speed and maintained a strong focus on the candidate experience, giving the company a competitive edge in the labor market.
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Sources:
- Findem. (2024). CoPilot: Transforming Talent Acquisition with AI. https://www.findem.com
- Baker, T. (2024). Boulevard Accelerates Hiring with CoPilot AI. https://www.joinblvd.com
Mimi Turner is the Vice President of Executive Search at the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp). She leads a team focused on expanding the executive search practice, which includes innovating in search engagements that stem from strong and diverse talent pipelines and deep relationships with both clients and candidates.
With a career that spans more than 20 years, Mimi’s roles have bridged marketing and talent acquisition. She has been a talent acquisition leader for several years with expertise in building and growing successful teams. Mimi has a unique blend of skills in talent marketing, operations, and analytics, and has a solid track record of TA success and building strategic partnerships.
Mimi earned her Bachelor’s degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, as well as a Master’s degree from the Presidio Graduate School. She is passionate about people, building strong and diverse teams, data, innovation, and experimentation.
Mimi lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with Jason (husband), Valerie (daughter), and Henri (French Bulldog). As a family, they enjoy the outdoors – hiking, biking, and rock climbing. Mimi also dedicates time through volunteerism by coaching girls AYSO soccer and is involved with a variety of other community organizations.