It took an average of 27.6 working days to fill a job in May, according to the latest data from career site publisher DHI Group. That’s the fewest days since January, and almost three days fewer than it took in April….
Time-to-Fill Archives
Fast to Hire and Quicker to Inspire: How to Help Managers Speed Up Employee Selection
Hiring is one of the most important tasks done by leaders in your organization. When they get it right, their job (and yours) is made easier. When they get it wrong, everyone’s job becomes harder—possibly putting careers at risk. The…
How to Lower Your Time to Hire to 1 Day With a Collaborative Hiring Process
Can you recruit someone in under 24 hours? So when I say recruit, I mean from when you first make contact with them, all the way through to a job offer not just sent, but signed. If you can, they…
In Recruiting, Back to Basics Does More Harm Than Good
Back to basics is terrible strategy. Having to engage in such a wasteful activity means people were allowed to stray from these core best practices. Why does this happen? The basics are harder than most people will admit. It’s typically…
Employers: Pick Up the Pace
Chipotle Mexican Grill made news recently for announcing its hiring of 4,000 workers in a single day. Although fast-food companies might have an edge over other business models when it comes to speed, there’s no reason every company can’t cut down on…
WOW, Google’s Simple Just-in-time Checklist Improves Onboarding Results By 25%
Although the initial part of this article is about how Google improved its onboarding results by 25 percent, the unique approach that it used reveals many other valuable lessons that HR executives should note. Those lessons include the importance of experimenting…
Is Your Company Resisting the Future of Hiring?
The CEO of Uber recently posed one of the most important questions talent acquisition leaders can ask about their own organizations. Appearing during the first week of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Travis Kalanick was asked about the future…
White Paper: 4 Things That Slow Down Fast Hiring
Speed. The State of Talent Acquisition study showed it’s keeping talent-acquisition leaders up at night. But what exactly is it that slows down hiring? Scott Wintrip, who’s speaking at ERE’s October conference in Atlanta, tackles that question in a new white…
Employers Are Losing More Candidates as Time to Fill Continues to Grow
It’s taking companies longer than at any time in the last 15 years — maybe even longer than ever — to fill a job, and that languor is losing them candidates. Two recent reports on hiring put the average time…