Part of the recruitment funnel cluster. This is educational, operational guidance that connects to the wider site — the employee lifecycle, employer operations, metrics and templates.
This funnel view links to the detailed quality-of-hire metric.
Why it matters
Speed and cost mean little if hires do not work out. Quality of hire keeps the funnel honest and counterbalances pressure to just go fast.
It connects sourcing, assessment and onboarding.
Key concepts
- Quality as the key outcome.
- Influenced by every stage.
- Measured post-hire.
- Counterweight to speed and cost.
Operational framework
- Source for fit, not just volume.
- Assess rigorously and consistently.
- Decide on evidence.
- Onboard well to realise quality.
- Measure quality of hire over time and feed it back.
Common challenges
- Speed undermining quality.
- Volume over fit.
- No post-hire measurement.
- No feedback loop.
Best practices
- Protect rigour across stages.
- Read quality with speed and cost.
- Feed quality back into sourcing and assessment.
- Onboard to realise it.
Common mistakes
- Chasing speed/cost alone.
- Loose assessment.
- Never measuring outcomes.
- No feedback to earlier stages.
Measure this with the quality of hire metric, put it into practice with the interview evaluation template, and run it as a system via hiring forecasting.
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