Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers bring higher expertise to organizations from recruiting best practices to technology and metrics that drive business success. Having the relevant data and the right metrics make all the difference. According to the Q4 2018 Insights report from Advanced RPO, “74 percent of recruiters believe hiring will become more competitive in the next 12 months.”

Topics: recruitment process outsourcing, recruiting metrics

Recruiting needs to be measured and improved like any other business function, but some companies find it difficult to measure something that is part art and part science. In this week’s RPOA Weekly, we present HR analytics that you should consider to improve recruiter performance and ensure recruiting success.

Topics: recruiting metrics, recruiting best practices

The goal of any good recruiting program is to locate and hire the best talent out there. The process can be long and time consuming, and it’s important to assess whether or not your tactics are paying off in the long run. Here is a list of metrics that can help you evaluate the success of your recruiting program, or to show you where the faults and weaknesses are so that you can correct them. Understanding how to make these numbers work for you is critical to ensuring a solid recruitment plan for your company.

Topics: recruiting metrics

Information innovations never stop, and this year’s red-hot trend is HR Analytics, or Human Capital Analytics, a form of data leveraging that focuses on a company’s human capital. In this RPOA Weekly, we take a look at what HR analytics are, how they work, and how to learn more to help you get the most from your workforce with HR analytics.

Topics: hiring and recruiting news, recruiting metrics

In recruiting and hiring, a lot depends on putting your time and money where they’ll do the most good. A high return on investment is considered a success; a small return on the resources invested means that you need to rethink where you apply them. To find out how successful any program, strategy, or business function is, you need to measure the return. Measurement is the key to success, as it shows what works and what doesn’t and allows you to craft your strategies and approach to get the most out of what you put in. In this week’s #RPOA Weekly, we take a look at how measurement is the key to recruiting success.

Topics: recruitment process outsourcing, recruiting strategy, recruiting metrics

Performance measurement and data gathering are huge trends in every aspect of business, and recruiting is no exception. Recruiting generates massive amounts of data, and understanding the data and using it to measure quality and performance promises a more efficient, effective recruiting process.  Using this data wisely can highlight where good sources and hires are easily identifiable, while elimininating waste in time and money can be eliminated. In this week’s RPOA Roundup, we take a lot at how data and metrics affect recruiting efforts and industry trends.

Topics: recruiting trends, recruiting metrics, recruiting best practices

There’s more than one way to make sure you’re recruiting the very best and brightest talent for your company. These five articles will show you how you can spot rapid learners and high achievers - why you should simplify the application process to attract solid talent – 6 steps to measuring recruiting metrics – why you need to start on your workforce budget for 2015 – and essential HR technologies you can’t live without.   

Topics: recruitment, hiring and recruiting news, recruiting metrics, recruiting best practices

How to Measure and Improve the Strategic Value HR Delivers. The role of HR is complex, far-reaching, and really important – especially when it coms to attracting and hiring new employees. Without fabulous new hires that can deliver and fit into the company culture, well, there wouldn’t be a company, would there? Bring that value to forefront by measuring the effectiveness of your recruiting process. Tricky as that sounds, it can accurately be measured. Just follow this six-step process:

Topics: recruiting metrics

You can't improve what you can't measure, and your recruiting performance isn't any different. Without the right recruiting metrics, your organization won't have the information it needs to assess its recruiting process and make the necessary improvements. In the first of this two-part series, we're going to show you how to measure your recruiting performance, starting with defining your goals, metrics and infrastructure.

Defining Your Goals

Topics: recruitment process outsourcing, recruiting metrics, recruiting best practices, applicant tracking system

Recruiting metrics and recruiting technology are two crucial topics in hiring and recruitment. They are two things that every organization ought to have, but if they aren't used correctly, then the organization is not getting the full benefit of the metrics' insight or of the technology's capabilities. This week's hiring and recruiting news roundup focuses on these two topics, topics that we haven't covered much in news roundups and that are long overdue for discussion.

Topics: hiring and recruiting news, recruiting trends, recruiting metrics, recruiting technology