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11 recruiting metrics worth tracking, with the formulas
Most recruiting dashboards measure activity. These eleven measure whether the process is working — and each one comes with the formula and the trap that makes it misleading.
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Cost per hire: the formula, the hidden costs, and a worked example
Most cost-per-hire numbers are wrong in the same direction. They count agency fees and job board spend, and quietly omit the largest cost in the process.
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Applications per hire is a broken metric on its own
The number has roughly tripled across the industry in five years. Almost every reading of that shift is wrong, because the metric conflates three different changes.
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Source quality: which channels actually convert to hires
The channel producing the most applications is usually the worst channel. Budgeting on volume is the most common way recruiting money gets misallocated.
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