Question 1

What is Recruitment Reporting?

Accepted Answer

Recruitment Reporting is the process of measuring your recruitment activities across candidates’, clients and other areas of recruitment such as ad response and placement numbers. This is then presented in a visual format and can be used to display results to stakeholders. It is also a useful tool to compare and analyse your recruiters’ performance and inform training and professional development.

Question 2

What is Recruitment Analytics?

Accepted Answer

Recruitment analytics is the process of using data from your CRM to identify trends and patterns in relation to your recruitment activities. This may show you which roles are being placed more often, which job boards are bringing in less applications and which industries are actively hiring. Ultimately, this can allow you to make predictions about your market and adjust your strategy to make more placements.

Question 3

What are the key metrics for recruitment agencies?

Accepted Answer

There are a number of key recruitment metrics that you can track to understand the market and also give you the ability to benchmark your own performance as a recruiter or agency, here’s a few of the most common ones: Time to hire, Cost per placement, Cost per application, Offer acceptance rate, Interview success rate.

Question 4

What are the benefits of Recruitment Reporting?

Accepted Answer

Recruitment reporting allows recruiters and their managers to track their activity across each key area of the recruitment process. This can give you a real time view of the work you are putting in as well as the results you are achieving and allow you to improve performance and understanding in each area.

Question 5

What is a recruitment Reports Dashboard?

Accepted Answer

A recruitment reports dashboard is a collection of visualised reports based on data from various recruitment activities. This will often be made up from data taken from within a recruitment CRM and track the activity in relation to candidates, clients, and sales etc.

Question 6

What templates are there for recruitment dashboards?

Accepted Answer

When using the Reports Dashboard, you can utilise a number of visualisation options; ‍‍

Horizontal and Vertical bar charts – great for comparing the number of candidates at each stage in the job workflow. ‍

Pie and Donut Charts – Great for analysing BD by each activity type such as calls, meetings, emails.

Line Graph – Great for seeing the number of candidates registered across a certain time period and comparing users performance. ‍

KPI list – Best for viewing KPI performance and how it has changed on a monthly or weekly basis.

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