What 1 6-sigma guy Says Quality of Hire is NOT … and What He Says Is the Only Quality of Hire Metric We Really Know Works

Employee Referrals

Jun 18, 2015

This article is part of a series called News & Trends.

Quality of hire: some people measure it, others want to — and many aren’t sure how.

Derek Gillaspy and I talk about this conundrum in the 12-minute video below. Gillaspy gets into what he says are the shortcomings of common quality measurements being used today — and what he says is about the only good measure of the quality a recruiter produces.

(By the way, lots more on this in the fall, in Atlanta; we have a panel of VPs of TA talking about quality or hire, and a number of other sessions on the topic.)

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