What’s the value for the reader? I could come up with stories of my own recruiting successes, but I didn’t realize they warranted an article on ERE.

If you’re going to blatantly self-promote on here, I think you should at least act like you are trying to address a topic of interest to the recruiting industry, not just show off how good you are at your job.

but to add to the article and also to others who would come alogn and read this article!

yes hiring takes a lot more time that we expect.
having good indices of the potential time to hire is useful while planning Recruitment numbers.
However the data is not so easy to arrive at

Since the time to hire depends on a variety of parameters
The ones i would reel off are the following

1. What is the Level of hire – Entry, Middle, Senior, Specialists Vs Generalists
2.Timing of the hire- when college is about to start vs when students are about to graduate, when employees are on the verge of getting their next increase in most organisations vs when they have already gotten
their increases
3.Salary Percentile – if a company pays at the 50th percentile the hiring job is a lot more tougher vs a company which hires at the 90th percentile

4. Geograhies – is a very important element. Depending on the hiring pace of each geography the pressure on the hiring system will be different. If there are more jobs and less people to fill it then its going to an awful lot more difficult.For e.g where I come from – that is India – hiring software professionals is a really tough job since the market is blazing . New jobs are being created by the thousands and the supply side has not been able to keep pace with the same. This results in a severe work force crunch.

Looking at all this a range is clearly possible. But ‘devil is in the details’ and it is useful to look at past hiring data to arrive at a more accurate number . And this believe me cannot be universal and will be different for company to company

Regards

Rimy
Rimy