Recruiting and Hiring

Recruiting and hiring covers everything between deciding a role is needed and an accepted offer: approving headcount, writing and publishing the job, finding and screening candidates, interviewing, making the offer, and measuring how well the process works. The terms in this category describe both the practices and the numbers recruiters and HR teams use to run them.

Most hiring starts with a job requisition, the approved request to fill a position. From there, candidate sourcing and employer branding bring people in, and the hiring funnel shows how many of them move from application to screening, interview, offer and hire. An applicant tracking system keeps that process and its data in one place.

To judge results, teams track speed, cost and outcome. Time to hire and time to fill show how fast roles are filled, cost per hire shows what each hire costs, and quality of hire shows whether new people perform and stay. Offer acceptance rate, source of application and selection ratio explain where the process wins or loses candidates.

In Skailer, the Recruiting module covers these steps, from position requests in the hiring plan and jobs published on career pages to offers and the hire.