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As a recruitment podcast host I receive questions from people working in the industry covering a wide variety of subjects. Over the past week, my cohost Lauren Jones and I have been engaged by at least 10 Bullhorn customers looking for advice on how to optimize their ATS/CRM usage.  

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Error Occurred While Processing Request

Attribute validation error for tag cfloop.

The value of the attribute query, which is currently getCats, is invalid.
 
The error occurred in C:/home/kyloepartners.com/wwwroot2022h/website/priv/views/inner.cfm: line 58
Called from C:/home/kyloepartners.com/wwwroot2022h/website/pub/index.cfm: line 228
Called from C:/home/kyloepartners.com/wwwroot2022h/website/pub/index.cfm: line 185
Called from C:/home/kyloepartners.com/wwwroot2022h/website/pub/index.cfm: line 18
 
56 :                                     <select id="catDrop" class="marginTop20 teamSelect select-css select-cats dropShadow hoverMe">
57 :                                         <option value="#application.fullpath#/#topNav#" <cfif not isdefined("url.subNav1")>selected</cfif>>All Categories</option>
58 :                                         <cfloop query="getCats">
59 :                                             <option value="#application.fullpath#/#topNav#/#navLink#" <cfif isdefined("url.subNav1")><cfif url.subNav1 EQ navTitle>selected</cfif></cfif>>#navTitle#</option>
60 :                                         </cfloop>
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Browser   Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Remote Address   172.71.254.211
Referrer  
Date/Time   09-May-25 08:40 AM
Stack Trace
at cfinner2ecfm424285679.runPage(C:/home/kyloepartners.com/wwwroot2022h/website/priv/views/inner.cfm:58) at cfindex2ecfm799943988._factor4(C:/home/kyloepartners.com/wwwroot2022h/website/pub/index.cfm:228) at cfindex2ecfm799943988._factor5(C:/home/kyloepartners.com/wwwroot2022h/website/pub/index.cfm:185) at cfindex2ecfm799943988.runPage(C:/home/kyloepartners.com/wwwroot2022h/website/pub/index.cfm:18) 

coldfusion.tagext.InvalidTagAttributeException: Attribute validation error for tag cfloop.
	at coldfusion.tagext.QueryLoop.setQuery(QueryLoop.java:103)
	at cfinner2ecfm424285679.runPage(C:\home\kyloepartners.com\wwwroot2022h\website\priv\views\inner.cfm:58)
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:262)
	at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.handlePageInvoke(IncludeTag.java:735)
	at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:565)
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTcfTag(CfJspPage.java:4329)
	at cfindex2ecfm799943988._factor4(C:\home\kyloepartners.com\wwwroot2022h\website\pub\index.cfm:228)
	at cfindex2ecfm799943988._factor5(C:\home\kyloepartners.com\wwwroot2022h\website\pub\index.cfm:185)
	at cfindex2ecfm799943988.runPage(C:\home\kyloepartners.com\wwwroot2022h\website\pub\index.cfm:18)
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:262)
	at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.handlePageInvoke(IncludeTag.java:735)
	at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:565)
	at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)
	at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:555)
	at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:43)
	at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40)
	at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:162)
	at coldfusion.filter.IpFilter.invoke(IpFilter.java:45)
	at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:96)
	at coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:78)
	at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
	at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
	at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:60)
	at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
	at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
	at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62)
	at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:226)
	at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:311)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:227)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
	at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:46)
	at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:47)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:189)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
	at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:189)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:197)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:97)
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:541)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:135)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:78)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:377)
	at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.service(AjpProcessor.java:463)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:65)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:889)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1743)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1191)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:659)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)