Applicants Per Hire by Industry
The number of applications compared to the number of successful applications, filterable by industry.
How to interpret this data
Definition
Applicants per hire measures the quality of your applications. The lower your rate, the higher the quality of applications you are receiving to meet your hiring quota.
Why it's important
Applicant to hire ratios can change drastically as market conditions change. Use this chart to benchmark your own ratio against a quarterly refreshed dataset.
Methodology
We calculate applicants per hire by taking the total number of applications divided by the number of successful applications.
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Applicant to hire ratios are also impacted by the source of the application. Click here to view our report on Applicants Per Hire by Channel.
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