As a recruiter, it’s important to have some understanding of how we’re performing. Now our performance doesn’t just fall down to “have we filled the role or not.”
It’s much more complex than that, and this article is going to tell you the 21 recruiting metrics every recruiter should follow in 2023:
- Time to fill
- Source of hire
- Performance
- External and internal offer declines
- The number of candidates
- Inbound referral
- Conversion rates
- Cost of hire
- Retention rates
- Equality
- Interview to Hire Ratio
- Offer Acceptance Rate
- Candidate Net Promoter Score
- First-year attrition
- Candidate Experience
- Application Time
- Applications Received Per Opening
- Interview to Offer Ratio
- Passive Candidate Conversion Rate
- Candidate Job Satisfaction
- Hiring Manager Satisfaction
What Can You Learn From Recruiting Metrics?
Recruiting metrics can give you answers to some of the critical questions like:
- The time it takes to hire employees.
- How efficient is your recruitment funnel?
- How well do new employees perform on a job?
- How do candidates find your job openings, via which channels?
- How much is your cost of hire?
- How many candidates apply for your job openings?
- What are the retention rates?
- And many more.
You can use the insight you get from recruiting metrics to better your whole recruitment process and candidate experience, resulting in a more significant ROI and profit.
1. Time-to fill
If you don’t know the average time it takes you to fill a role, how do you suppose you will plan which recruiter has what workload?
If you know that it takes a certain amount of time to fill one role, you know not to give 7 of those roles to one recruiter as there is little chance they will fill the positions.
Time-to-fill is a metric that varies from sector to sector to position. It’s something that’s learned in time and is very good for predicting the outcome of individual hires.
2. Source of hire
The Source of hire is a metric every recruiter should be focusing on.
When you notice many good, successful candidates coming from the same source, you must put much more effort into that space to find more great candidates. If you need to do a paid promotion on your job ads, it’s beneficial to do so in the spaces where you’re most likely to get excellent talent.
Have a look at your recent hires, examine the data and determine which sources are the best performers.
Examples of different sources:
- Social media.
- Job boards.
- Referral programs.
Things are changing quickly, and people find new ways to look for jobs. You must stay ahead of this and understand to find and secure the best candidates.
Tracking where these applicants come from include the following:
- How many candidates were brought in from each source?
- How were many applicants from each source completely qualified for the available position?
- Which source did the best candidates come from?
- Where did qualifying candidates find out about open spots?
These metrics need to be kept in a database that can be cross-referenced over periods of time. Keeping tabs on this metric will save you money in the long run as it will highlight the effectiveness of your various channels.
If one channel is proving to be ineffective, you have justification for shutting it down. Similarly, if one channel seems to be producing a higher than expected ratio of qualified candidates, you can focus more resources in that direction.
Always check your source of hire metrics to make sure you’re not spending too much money on something that’s not giving you enough value and not enough money on something that’s giving you very little value.
3. How well the particular recruiter is performing
One metric everyone seems to profess they have but is quite tricky to measure how well the particular recruiter performs.
Now, some might say this is a tough one because you gauge how the recruiter is doing by looking at their other metrics. When looking at recruiter performance, one should not compare the recruiters against each other, like a number game.
Instead, you should look to take each recruiter as an individual and create a list of improvements and achievements for them.
You should review this list of improvements and achievements regularly, and as long as they have achieved their goals, you can assume they are performing well. Remember, you hired the recruiter for a reason. If at any point you don’t feel they’re up to the standard you need them to