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By: Keith Halperin

Keith Halperin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:35:32 +0000

Thanks, Susan.

Happy New Year,
Keith

By: Ryann Reddy

Ryann Reddy — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:34:07 +0000

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By: Susan Vitale

Susan Vitale — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:35:13 +0000

Hi Keith,

Thanks so much for your interest & for looking into the information more deeply.

These numbers are tough to analyze based on how they’re presented; in essence you’d need a look at ALL candidates across ALL databases since iCIMS’ inception about 13 years ago. Not so easy to gather.

Some positions are very difficult to fill and therefore, more applicants are gone through before arriving at a hire; others require far less of a pool to make a hire. The way this information is shown doesn’t slice out hires by job function, level within an organization, industry, etc. However, in Q2-3 of 2013 iCIMS hopes to deliver some benchmarking reports (de-identified of client data) that can help everyone get a better sense of what’s good, bad or ugly.

Hope this helps! Happy New Year.

Best,
Susan

By: Keith Halperin

Keith Halperin — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:13:26 +0000

Thanks, Todd. I went to look at the iConnect site for iCIMS and found these numbers:

iCIMS IN ACTION
Number of Customers:
1,429
Daily Support:
24×5
Candidates Created In November 2012:
1,498,014
Monthly Webinars:
30
All Candidates:
63,258,937
Candidates Hired in November 2012:
54,969
Total Hits:
401,619,090
Jobs Posted in November 2012:
90,139
Candidates Applied in November 2012:
1,897,209
……..

It looks like ~1/35 applicants were hired. (They may have applied before November, but you have to start somewhere…)
~1/27 of the new November 2012 candidates were hired.
~1/1,167 total candidates in the combined databases were hired.
~1/33 of the total candidates in the combined databases applied.

Are these good, bad, or ugly stats. i.e., what do they mean?

Keith