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Talent Acquisition Metrics and Analytics!! Talent acquisition metrics and analytics are essential tools for optimizing and improving the recruitment process. By analyzing data, talent acquisition teams can make more informed decisions, enhance recruitment strategies, and ultimately attract and hire the best talent. Here are some Key Metrics in Talent Acquisition to consider when discussing talent acquisition analytics: ▶️ Time to Fill: Measures the time from posting a job to making an offer. Shortening this time improves efficiency and reduces hiring costs. ▶️ Time to Hire: The time taken from the initial interview to the candidate’s acceptance. A shorter time indicates a smooth hiring process. ▶️ Cost Per Hire (CPH): The total cost involved in hiring, including advertising, recruiter fees, and onboarding expenses. Tracking CPH helps manage recruitment budgets. ▶️ Offer Acceptance Rate: The percentage of candidates who accept job offers. A low rate could indicate issues with compensation or cultural fit. ▶️ Quality of Hire: Measures the performance and retention of new hires, typically assessed through performance reviews and turnover rates. ▶️ Candidate Experience: Involves metrics like satisfaction scores and response time, which impact employer branding and can affect future candidate engagement. ▶️ Diversity Metrics: Tracks the diversity of applicants and hires, including gender, ethnicity, and other factors, to ensure fair and inclusive hiring practices. ▶️ Recruitment Funnel Analytics: Analyzes conversion rates between stages of recruitment, like from application to interview or interview to offer. Identifies where candidates drop off and allows for process optimization. ▶️ Predictive Analytics: Uses historical data to forecast hiring needs, job performance, and candidate success, helping to make more proactive recruitment decisions. ▶️ ROI of Talent Acquisition: Measures the return on investment of recruitment activities by comparing recruitment costs to the value brought by new hires (e.g., performance, retention). Benefits of Analytics in Talent Acquisition: ▶️ Improved Decision-Making: Data-driven insights help recruiters make more informed choices about candidates, processes, and strategies. ▶️ Process Optimization: Analytics help identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement in the recruitment workflow. ▶️ Better Candidate Fit: By tracking metrics like quality of hire and predictive analytics, recruiters can identify candidates who are likely to succeed and stay with the company long-term. ▶️ Enhanced Employer Branding: A positive candidate experience, measured through feedback and response times, enhances the organization’s reputation as an employer of choice. By tracking these metrics and leveraging analytics, talent acquisition teams can refine their recruitment processes, improve candidate experiences, and ultimately make better hires.

Employees with 3 or more different managers in a year are up to 75% more likely to leave your company Yesterday, we saw that only ~50% of employees in Pave’s dataset have kept the same manager for a full year. Today, let’s go one step deeper and look at the impact of “manager thrash” on employee attrition. _____________ As a quick caveat, the reported turnover rates include both voluntary and involuntary (as well as regrettable and non-regrettable) attrition. And yes, this includes layoffs too. _____________ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗲’𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁? • 𝗢𝗻𝗲 consistent manager over the past 12 months => Attrition rates between 𝟭𝟲% 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟮𝟬% depending on company stage. • 𝗧𝘄𝗼 managers over the past 12 months => Attrition rates between 𝟮𝟭% 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟮𝟳%. • 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 managers over the past 12 months => Attrition rates between 𝟮𝟱% 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟯𝟰%. _____________ 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝘁: 1️⃣ In general, the more managers an employee has, the more likely they are to leave the company. 2️⃣ Attrition rates are usually highest at early stage startups and gradually decrease as companies mature. ________________ 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗥 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: ✅ Re-orgs, performance management, and layoffs are somewhat inevitable in the world of company building. However, be cognizant of the tangible impact that “manager thrash” has on employee attrition. In particular, I encourage you to run a cohort analysis around how much manager thrash your top performers have undergone over the past 12 months as a way to proactively predict attrition risk org-by-org. I’d also call out that it’s important to consider whether or not attrition spikes caused by “manager thrash” are due to causation or correlation with other forces. Think critically here. Is it the disruption, inconsistent expectations, or something else? #pave #orgchart #benchmarks

Human Capital: Cost or Value? Human capital is typically regarded as a replaceable resource, like cogs in a machine. The main objective has traditionally been to cut labour costs while increasing output. As #stakeholdercapitalism gains traction, the view of human capital as a "cost" is changing. While salaries, benefits, and training are all costs, the real story is about the immense value that employees bring: 💡 Innovation & Growth: Their creativity fuels R&D, drives problem-solving, and opens new markets. ⚙ Productivity & Efficiency: Skilled and engaged teams deliver more, do it better, and save costs. 🤗 Reputation & Loyalty: Happy employees build trust with customers, fostering loyalty and boosting brand reputation. But how do we quantify this value? ➡ Future-of-Work Skills: Measuring essential skills like adaptability, problem-solving, and communication is vital for navigating the changing workforce landscape. ➡ Employee Well-being & Resilience: Investing in physical and mental health strengthens the workforce, boosting productivity and engagement. ➡ Diversity & Inclusion: Embracing diverse perspectives sparks innovation, attracts top talent, and resonates with customers. Human capital is complex, and no single metric can capture all of its aspects. By combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, we can gain a more comprehensive understanding of the true value our people bring to the organisation. Forget about short-term cost-cutting measures. Investing in your people is not only good for business; it is also the key to sustainable growth and a thriving future for all. #sustainability #esg #diversity #inclusion #leadership #humancapital #greenertogether

Data-Driven Hiring: How to Use Analytics to Find the Best Talent The talent market is fast-moving, and guesswork no longer cuts it. Hiring decisions should be driven by data and analytics. Here’s how you can make smarter talent acquisition choices using analytics: 1. Identify Hiring Gaps: Use workforce analytics to identify skills gaps in your current team. What’s missing, and how can you fill that with your next hire? This targeted approach ensures you’re not just filling seats, but addressing actual needs. 2. Track Candidate Sources: Which platforms are bringing in the best candidates? Whether it’s LinkedIn, referrals, or job boards, tracking these metrics helps you refine your sourcing strategy. 3. Predictive Analytics for Retention: Don’t just focus on hiring - use data to predict retention trends. Which types of hires have the longest tenure? Use these insights to adjust your recruitment strategies and keep top talent longer. #DataDrivenRecruitment #HRAnalytics #TalentAcquisition #HiringTrends #HRTech #CareerAdvice #ShivaniTiwari LinkedIn

Workforce planning has always been an incredibly complex and difficult task. Despite valiant efforts to improve these models, they have remained relatively static and simplistic, relying predominantly on small teams crunching data or on predictions from the hiring manager community. In an ideal world, we would shift from a static, once-a-year exercise to a dynamic, more proactive model. We would stop reacting to what's happening now and start anticipating what's likely to happen next. Last week, I had the pleasure of spending time with our enterprise data and analytics team, a group that services over 800 customers. The most exciting topic we discussed was three pilots we're running with customers right now that aim to make this a reality: using a digital twin for work planning. It works by connecting vast amounts of external market data with a company's many internal data sources, some they typically wouldn't consider, such as ERP, CRM (sales), LMS, and Time and Attendance systems. This allows us to run scenarios and model future talent needs. Here’s a concrete example: By analyzing Salesforce, HRIS, and ATS data, we can predict that when multiple prospect opportunities reach a specific stage in our customer’s sales cycle, there is a high likelihood of winning at least one of them. We can then analyze the consistent skill sets across all of those prospect opportunities, allowing us to confidently and proactively start a recruitment process for those skills. The goal being that we have candidates at the final stages of the process, before an official requisition has been raised, positively impacting time to hire. We’ve also been able to replicate a similar model based on website sales activity. The question to ask is: what data is generated in what system that allows you to get ahead of the hiring process today. 

📊 How much is good job design worth to the employee? There's a huge literature linking job design to psychosocial risk, mental health, and employee wellbeing. But it can be harder to link job design to financial outcomes. This is partly because the returns are diffuse across outcomes like turnover, absenteeism, productivity, and mental health claims, and also because they take time to show up. This means that people-related investments don't always get the same consideration as policies with a clearer ROI. I've written before about quantifying the financial value of job satisfaction in terms of replacement cost savings for an organisation (link in comments). In this analysis, I look at the issue from the employee's perspective. Using data from the HILDA survey, I examined the following question: How much more would someone need to be paid to reduce their chance of leaving their job by the same amount as a 1-point improvement (on a 7-point scale) in a given job characteristic? To answer this question, I first estimated how much salary and each job characteristic affect turnover. I then identified the salary change that matches the retention impact of a 1-point improvement in the characteristic. Here's what the results showed: 1️⃣ The most valuable things are interest, learning, and initiative. A 1-point increase in a job involving “a variety of interesting things” was associated with a retention impact equivalent to a $25k pay rise. Learning new skills, taking initiative, and using many skills and abilities were all in the $15k–$20k range. 2️⃣ Autonomy was worth between $6k and $10k. Having a say about what happens in your job was worth about $10k. Freedom over how and what you do in your work came in at about $6.5k. According to this analysis, having flexibility in working times was worth a little less (around $3k). 3️⃣ Stress and monotony had a retention impact equivalent to a cut in pay. Work stress was associated with higher turnover by an amount comparable to taking $10k–$16k off someone's salary. Jobs which require doing the same things repeatedly were equivalent to a $12k paycut. Of course, these are only associations, not causal inferences. All we can say here is that people who have more of certain characteristics tend to leave their jobs at a lower rate than expected given their salary. Also the job characteristics themselves are correlated, so their combined effects aren’t necessarily additive (you’d need a different analysis to assess this). Still, I think analyses like these are useful for communicating to stakeholders the value that people initiatives can provide. It frames the initiative in the same terms decision makers use to evaluate other policies, so they can compare apples with apples. Check out more research insights like this here: https://lnkd.in/gnbvqG-b #PeopleAnalytics #PsychosocialRisk #JobDesign #EmployeeRetention #OrganisationalPsychology #WorkplaceWellbeing #FutureOfWork

Replacing people is easy. Understanding why they leave is leadership. I’ve seen organizations move quickly to fill vacancies and feel relieved when the position is closed. Yet a few months later, the same role opens again. The pattern repeats, and the conversation stays focused on hiring rather than on what is driving people away. From my experience, exits rarely happen suddenly. They build quietly over time. A lack of growth, unclear direction, inconsistent leadership, or effort that goes unrecognized. By the time someone decides to leave, the decision has usually been forming for months. Workplace research consistently points to this reality. Gallup’s latest findings show that a large share of employees who leave do so because of management-related factors such as lack of development, poor communication, or feeling undervalued. In other words, most exits are not about the job itself. They are about the experience of doing the job. I’ve seen this firsthand. In one situation, a strong performer resigned, and the immediate response was to replace the role quickly. When we stepped back and spoke to the team more openly, a different picture emerged. The issue was not workload alone. It was unclear priorities and limited feedback. Once that was addressed, not only did retention improve, but performance improved as well. Replacing people treats the symptom. Understanding people addresses the cause. When leaders focus only on hiring, they maintain the cycle. When they focus on why people leave, they begin to change it. Retention is not driven by policy alone. It is shaped by everyday leadership behavior. How feedback is given. How growth is supported. How effort is recognized. How trust is built. These are the factors people respond to long before they consider leaving. “People don’t leave organizations as often as they leave experiences.” Strong leaders don’t wait for exit interviews to understand what went wrong. They pay attention while people are still there. Because in the long run, fixing the environment is more effective than repeatedly replacing the people within it. What is one change organizations can make today to reduce unnecessary turnover? LinkedIn LinkedIn News LinkedIn News India #Leadership #EmployeeRetention #WorkCulture #LinkedInNews

Workforce Planning (WP). Here's my cheat sheet for using aspects of scenario planning for WP. Many WP efforts still operate as static, once-a-year exercises often built around a single business scenario. But what if that scenario doesn't happen? My cheat sheet has examples to help you think through: 👉 BUSINESS CONTEXT 1/ Business Scenarios ↳ What plausible business scenarios might we face over the next 24 months? 2/ Scenario Assumptions ↳ What evidence, assumptions, data, or trends suggest these scenarios are likely and worth planning for? 3/ Scenario Triggers ↳ What leading indicators would suggest a scenario is more likely to occur? 4/ Scenario Business Impact ↳ How would each scenario affect business goals (e.g., growth, sales)? 5/ Base Scenario (Most Likely) ↳ Which scenario do we believe is most likely to happen? What are we basing this on? 👉 TALENT IMPLICATIONS 6/ Plan for Base Scenario ↳ For our base business scenario (what we expect), what are the key aspects of the workforce plan? 7/ Directional Plan for Alternate Scenarios ↳ For each alternate scenario, what directional adjustments would be required in our base plan? 8/ Common Talent Themes ↳ Are there shared or common talent-related needs or risks that appear across multiple scenarios? 9/ Common Talent Actions ↳ What talent actions will be required across all of our possible scenarios? (Helps prioritize shared actions.) 👉 EXECUTION FACTORS 10/ Decision Triggers ↳ Based on the scenario triggers, what thresholds would indicate we should begin shifting from the base plan to an alternate one? (Helps get a head start). 11/ Risk Mitigation ↳ What talent-related risks are introduced by each scenario, and how can we mitigate them proactively? 12/ Communications Needs ↳ What communications guidance would different stakeholders need under each scenario? 13/ Key Stakeholders ↳ Who needs to be involved in scenario-based workforce planning and execution? How do we align? 👉 A few more thoughts: ↳ This isn’t about creating multiple workforce plans ↳ It’s about planning for the base scenario while... ↳ gaining directional insights into how plans might flex ↳ This helps us respond effectively if scenarios shift ↳ Even high-level insights are better than none at all ↳ Whether you use these questions or not, start today ↳ Doing so will prepare you for what the future brings ❓Did anything here resonate with you? What would you add or change? Let me know. ♻️ Repost to help others strengthen workforce planning 🔔 Follow Brian Heger for daily HR insights #hr #humanresources #workforceplanning

#PeopleAnalytics: Turning #HRMetrics into #Strategic Insights In today’s data-driven organizations, HR is evolving from a support function to a strategic powerhouse. These HR Metrics are more than just numbers; they’re lenses through which we can understand workforce dynamics, organizational health, and business impact. Let’s break it down: 🔹 Absenteeism Rate: A high rate may signal burnout, disengagement, or systemic issues in workplace culture. Tracking it helps identify patterns and intervene early. 🔹 Employee Attrition & Retention: These twin metrics reveal the stability of your workforce. High attrition can be costly and disruptive, while strong retention often reflects good leadership and employee satisfaction. 🔹 Internal Promotion Rate: A key indicator of talent mobility and succession planning. Promoting from within boosts morale and reduces hiring costs. 🔹 Cost Per Hire & Time to Hire: Efficiency metrics that reflect the effectiveness of your recruitment strategy. Long hiring cycles or high costs may point to process inefficiencies or misaligned sourcing channels. 🔹 Offer Acceptance Rate: A direct measure of your employer brand and candidate experience. Low acceptance rates might mean your value proposition isn’t resonating. 🔹 Human Capital ROI: This is the ultimate business case for HR—how much return you’re getting from your investment in people. It’s a powerful metric for aligning HR with financial performance. 🔹 Employee Engagement: Often measured through surveys, this metric captures how emotionally and cognitively invested employees are in their work. High engagement is correlated with productivity, innovation, and employee retention. 💡 Why it matters: These formulas empower HR teams to move from reactive to proactive. They help diagnose problems, forecast trends, and make evidence-based decisions that drive business value. People analytics isn’t just about tracking—it’s about transforming. #PeopleAnalytics #HRStrategy #HumanCapital #WorkforceInsights #EmployeeExperience #DataDrivenHR #Leadership #FutureOfWork #LinkedInHR #HRLeadership