Client Companies Stop Chasing Updates When the Pipeline Is Live
Client companies stop chasing updates when the pipeline is live, and the AgentWorks Client Pipeline Reporting Agent is what keeps it live. It carries client pipeline reporting for the account manager and the recruiters who assemble a status report by hand every week, so they can spend their time on calls with candidates and hiring managers instead of copying stages out of the ATS.
What it takes off your plate
At most agencies, the pipeline report is a weekly chore. Someone pulls candidates and stages from the ATS, checks email for the latest hiring manager feedback, fills gaps from a spreadsheet and turns it into a PDF. By the time it lands in the client's inbox, a candidate has already moved, withdrawn or received an offer somewhere else.
Clients want to know where their reqs stand right now. So between reports, the hiring manager emails, the HR partner calls, and each recruiter stops what they are doing to look it up. Every one of those interruptions pulls a recruiter off a candidate call.
What the Client Pipeline Reporting Agent does, step by step
The Client Pipeline Reporting Agent starts with the status questions that interrupt your recruiters.
- Answers status requests. When a hiring manager emails asking where a req stands, the agent replies with the current pipeline for that req from the ATS: candidates at each stage, what happened this week and what comes next. Anything that needs a judgment call goes to the recruiter.
- Keeps the ATS current. When a candidate's stage has not moved and there is activity in email or on the calendar, it asks the recruiter to confirm the update so the pipeline reflects reality.
- Chases the client's next step. When submittals are waiting on hiring manager feedback, the report says so, and the agent sends a polite reminder to the hiring manager with the candidates waiting.
- Builds the live dashboard. Each client company gets a live view of its open reqs, drawn from Bullhorn or your ATS: candidates by stage, activity this week, interviews scheduled and expected next steps.
- Sends the weekly report. Every Friday morning, the client receives a written summary of the same data, reviewed by the account manager before it goes out.
- Keeps it discreet. Candidate details appear only as your agency's privacy practice and the client agreement allow, and each client sees only its own reqs.
Where the work is recorded
Every status request, reply and reminder is logged on the client company and the req in the CRM your team already uses, so the account manager can see what the client asked and what they were told. Stage updates live in the ATS itself, so the dashboard and the report always match the system your recruiters work in.
The next morning, the account manager opens one view: reqs with candidates waiting on client feedback, reqs with no movement this week and the questions clients asked since yesterday. Any recruiter who picks up the phone can pick up the conversation where the agent left it.
What your people do instead
Recruiters stay on the phone with candidates: preparing them for the interview, hearing their concerns, closing the offer. Account managers use their client time for real conversations about the search, like a compensation band that is out of market or a profile that needs rethinking, rather than reading out statuses.
The relationship changes, too. A hiring manager who can open the dashboard on a Tuesday night and see three candidates in play trusts the search, and is more likely to give feedback quickly and send the next req your way instead of spreading it across several agencies. The account manager's time goes into that trust rather than into formatting.
Clear reporting supports the rest of the process. Candidates who hear from you between rounds stay in your process, and the dashboard shows the client that the conversation is happening. Submittals backed by a Resume Screening Agent that screens every req the same way are easier to explain on a report. And when a panel is coming up, an Interview Preparation Agent sends every panel in ready.
The Client Pipeline Reporting Agent answers, reminds and reports. Your people recruit, advise and close.
One next step
If your Friday still starts with a pipeline spreadsheet, begin with the free Industry Assessment for recruiting. It shows which workflow an agent should take first in your agency. You can see every agent built for recruiting and staffing firms on the AgentWorks recruiting page.
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