The novel coronavirus has slowed down economic activity, and as businesses hit hard and look to recuperate and come back stronger, people analytics is at the core of HR. Why? HRs around the world are looking to develop a data-driven approach toward recovery. So, what are the key recruitment metrics that matter in 2021? Which metrics should you pay the most attention to, to be poised for a comeback? This is part of an extensive series of guides about employer branding.
Source of Hire in Recruitment
Perhaps the metric that has shifted most after COVID-19 is the source of hire. Your most effective sources before might not still be the same as today, as the use of social media has skyrocketed and candidate behavior for your target audiences may have changed.
The metric is used to track the performance of your sources, which may indicate which sources are bringing the most or best hires. Such a metric is important for businesses to focus their recruitment marketing methods on sources which are the most lucrative, and abandon or decrease efforts for the underperforming ones. This will help allocate time and resources better. Hirebee’s recruitment analytics can also show you your source of candidates.
Why Time to Hire is Important
With your recruitment strategies revised after the major job market disruptions that came with COVID-19, comparing your current time-to-hire with your time-to-hire before the major disruptions can indicate the effectiveness of your response. We have previously speculated that many of the remote trends brought about by COVID-19 are here to stay, so tracking time-to-hire to create an optimal hiring process will be important for businesses.
This metric may be a useful indicator of an inefficient hiring process, however, it may not be too indicative of which part of the hiring process is inefficient. That is why, it may be useful to also track the time taken for candidates to be moved through hiring stages. This way, you can also identify where the bottlenecks in your hiring process are, to then identify and eliminate them. Hirebee’s recruitment analytics also enable this.
Analyze Candidate Demographics
Ok, this might not be a metric… but it is nonetheless an important thing to factor in for your recruitment analytics. It is likely that for your recruitment marketing, you are going to have to define your target audience for each job. You can assume your target audience, but you can also use data to aid you. With remote hiring on the rise, the target audience may be subject to change. The norm in your local area is not necessarily the norm globally, and furthermore recruiters might need to deduce from which cities or countries most of their global candidates are coming.
How to Measure Recruitment Metrics Automatically
We can conclude that the source of hire, time-to-hire, and the demographics of your candidates can be considered as the key recruitment metrics and analytics to look after in 2021. The question is, how can you best acquire and analyze this data? Well, all the aforementioned analytics can be automatically reported with Hirebee. Hirebee is a recruiting software solution that can help businesses enhance their recruitment by enabling automation, team collaboration, and centralization.
Leveraging reports and analytics with Hirebee, and getting your hands on these powerful reports may just be what you need to easily gain insights into all the key recruitment metrics and data that matter in 2021.Â
