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Basic External Recruitment Measures

The external recruitment is very sensitive to the changes in the environment around the organization and the HRM Function has to be able to keep in touch with the external environment and to be ready to make adjustments to the external recruitment process to make sure to stay competitive in the war for talents.

The external recruitment is a very complex process, which is very difficult to manage intuitively. The external recruitment has to be measured and the results have to be carefully monitored and analyzed by experienced and skilled HR Staff.

The external recruitment measures have to be taken consistently and for a longer period of time as the trends are more important than just one time data analysis. The HRM Function has to keep measuring consistently and fairly. The HRM Function needs to develop clear measures and the description has to be clear to show, what and how to measure and not to measure differently in each case.

What to measure in external recruitment process?

The HRM Function cannot miss the opportunity to introduce clever external recruitment measures, which will show the development in the area and will provide detailed reporting to the organization.

The measures have to be defined carefully and it should cover the following areas:

• Positions - the main reason for the external recruitment. The HRM Function has to keep track of all open positions in the organization, the number of positions, in departments and how complex the position are as the HRM Function has to define the limits
• Time - the external recruitment process must be cut into separate pieces to take the measures, there can’t be a discussion over them and the HRM Function has to measure all the vacancies
• Sources - the sources of the external recruitment, including the number of candidates and the percentage of the successful candidates, it is good for measuring the real success rate of different external recruitment channel with different positions
• Costs - each external hire has costs associated with and the HRM Function has to measure the efficiency of the whole process

The external recruitment process is not easy to measure and it takes a lot of effort to implement it correctly, but reading the trends in the recruitment, it can help the HRM Function to keep the process in the right shape.