How would you rate your organisations Hiring Quality?  What percentage score would you give yourself? How did you arrive at this number? A stab in the dark?  A guess? Loads of talent acquisition surveys from the past year highlight that we are not doing enough to measure Hiring Quality. They also highlight that if you […]

Part 1 of our series on useless, traditional recruitment metrics If you were to review an organisation’s recruitment performance dashboard, what would you expect to see?  Typically cost per hire, time to hire, sourcing percentages and various numbers highlighting how many candidates made it to interview and then how many got offers? Do those numbers really […]

We all know that Candidates are important, but have we forgot about our Hiring Managers?   So much of the focus on new recruitment technology and discussion over the past 12-18 months has been on managing candidate experience.  But what about the Hiring Manager experience? There is emerging evidence that the more we involve our Hiring […]

We think it’s important to not just talk about our views on Hiring Quality but to share other similar perspectives.  Below are some exerts from a blog written by Mike Roberts at Jibe called ‘Quality Hire = Sasquatch’ and an infographic with results from his survey – which just happen to agree with our point […]

I was just reading the recent LinkedIn Global recruiting trends report (2016) and was shocked (but OK, not really surprised) that a whopping 67% of talent leaders surveyed said they weren’t measuring quality of hire effectively. Yet bizarrely quality of hire came out as the most valuable recruitment metric KPI. What is it about quality […]