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How to build a Bullhorn tech stack that works for you

The recruitment and staffing industry keeps more balls in the air than most. You need to stay abreast of the needs, wants and whims of both candidates and clients, you need to keep pace with the realities of the job market, and as a consequence, your business needs to constantly evolve.

So too does the ecosystem of technologies that supports it.

There’s a reason it’s called a tech stack. Building this technology ecosystem is a construction project that lacks a firm blueprint; instead you’ll find yourself responding to changing conditions by stacking solutions like Jenga. A good build is one where the blocks work together to create something greater than the sum of its parts.

As a Bullhorn user, the CRM will form the foundation of your build. But how do you select the tech to stack on top? As it turns out, the answer to that question can be found by asking a number of others. Error Occurred While Processing Request The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error.
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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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Remote Address   172.71.254.82
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Date/Time   09-May-25 08:37 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)