Evaluating your recruitment process ensures HR are accountable for their actions, it monitors compliance, it checks for bad practices, tests cost efficiency and allocation and demonstrates how HR adds value to an organisation.
2. RECRUITMENT FACTS
• Employee turnover has increased
to 16% since 2012*
• Employers think the recruitment
process is becoming more
difficult
• Use of social media has improved
candidate quality by 50%*
*Taken from the Hiring Process Report 2015; Kelly Services
3. IMPORTANCE OF EVALUATION
• Ensures HR are accountable for their
actions
• Monitors compliance
• Checks for bad practices
• Tests cost efficiency and allocation
• Demonstrates how HR adds value to
organisation
4. EVALUATION MUST BE…
• Relevant
• Timely
• Clearly understood
• Able to provide positive contribution
5. COST OF REPLACING EMPLOYEES
DIRECT COSTS
• Work time of recruitment team
• Work time by those incidentally
involved
• Online maintenance
• Agency fees
• Marketing fees
INDIRECT COSTS
• Loss of productivity during
learning process
• Loss of productivity while
teaching new employee
• Loss of productivity during
notice period
• Loss of productiveness while job
is vacant
6. COST OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER
+ Loss of productivity from other employees filling in
+ In-house hiring costs
+ Termination administrative costs
+ Training/induction costs
+ Loss of productivity in early stages of employment
+ Loss of productivity in final stages of employment
- Unpaid costs while job vacant
= TOTAL COST OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER
7. TYPES OF RECRUITMENT
MEASURES
• On the job performance of new employees
• Engagement surveys
• Cost/benefit analysis
• Efficiency measures
• Quality of hire measures
• Lag indicators (has happened)
• Lead indicators (predictive)
8. EFFICIENCY MEASURES
• Time taken to fill vacancies
• Turnover rate of new hires
• Cost per hire
• Cost of each recruitment component
• Application conversion rates
• Survey of applicant experience
• Survey of hiring managers
9. QUALITY HIRE MEASURES
• % of employees still hired after one year
• % of employees that perform above
expectations
• % with high performance review scores
• % offered fixed contract
• % promoted during first year
10. GUIDELINES FOR SELECTING
MEASURES
• Work backwards (what do you already know?)
• Will there be a positive contribution to the business?
• Use a mixture of lag and lead indicators
• Don’t over analyse
• Measures must link to overall business goals
• Measures must identify gaps and underlying issues
11. GUIDELINES FOR SELECTION
• Is the process ongoing with continuous feedback?
• Focus only on issues that HR and IR can influence
• Segment data according to employee demographics
• Ensure data isn’t flaky
12. PRESENTING EVALUATION RESULTS
• Prepare reports with end user in mind
• Who will benefit from these results?
• Identify the business-critical jobs and roles and
the metrics that fit them
• Prepare business case for introducing HR initiatives
• Identify all costs and where problems/gaps exist
• Use benchmarks
• Address key questions
• Make specific recommendations for change