Recruitment Forum Tools allow for the assessment of recruitment efficiency. What follows is a selection of very useful recruitment indicators that will prove useful not just in assessing the recruitment activity and in selling change to the business for recruitment.

Recruitment Forum Performance Tools

  • Recruitment Capacity Calculator - How many people do I need to hire - the number I need to employ?
  • Recruitment Funnel - Where are my blockages what do they teach me and how much do I waste?
  • Recruitment Resource Plan - What are my plans and what structures can help?
  • Time to Acquire/Hire - Who is delaying things recruitment or business? Is the process lean enough?
  •  True cost of Hiring - Put all the costs in it tends to change the landscape!
  • Job Site Positioning - Just how many pages does a standard candidate have to go through to find my job?

Recruitment Capacity Calculator
The fundamental difficulty with recruitment speed of delivery of services falls into one category under capacity in the recruitment team for the volume of work. It matters little what tools and what brilliant methods or processes you employ if you do not know you capacity you are in trouble. If I was running a department where I was unaware of the capacity of the resources employed I should not find it strange to be removed.

Recruitment Funnel
The funnel plots the candidates that remain in the process at each stage of recruitment and allows accurate targeting and allows assumptions on where efficiencies are in recruitment. It is a great graphical presentation tool for line managers telling a story of recruitment and its working

Recruitment Resource Plan
Powerful and very worthwhile the resource plan is a standard in other disciplines and allows simple planning. It allows the development of pools of Talent in advance. It allows a recognition of where there will be blockages going forward. It allows us judge where the recruitment spend that will be needed going forward and where the recruiters need to focus. Most powerful of all it allows planned events and projects to open channels for delivery of skills always in demand.

Time to Acquire/Hire
The recruitment industry has for a long time focused heavily on the measure of time to hire. Acquisition of skills is a very important measure. Acquisition is a measure of how efficient the recruitment department is. The remainder of time it takes to make the hire is the measure of how long it takes the organisation to react to having the right Talent on board. Businesses do not understand the usefulness of time to hire. Understand the components acquisition, interview, onboarding and start allows companies to move the time to hire target instead of accepting it.

True Cost of Hiring
The truth about the real cost of hiring is sometimes quite surprising for business. In some cases adding all the costs of hiring increases the costs by 250% from the cost that had been estimated. Realising the costs sometimes changes dramatically the company view on spend on recruitment outsourcing, broadcast advertising and other key elements.

Job Site Positioning
A great lesson can be learned from going to a web site that the company invests in and looking over a week at the position of the advertisement. If it appears after the third page then it is possible you lost all potential candidates.