A Guide to Developing Recession Metrics

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Recession metrics are very important to implement especially during this time of economic turmoil. Developing such metrics ensures the company stays on the right path. Check additional information about Recession Metrics.

Recession is an unfortunate event that affects a lot of industries across the world. This is especially hard to deal with when you are working recruitment and selection. This is precisely why recession metrics need to be implemented so that recruitment and selection can still be contained in spite of the economic downturn today's companies are experiencing.

You have to understand that it is a mistake to assume that as long as you have a metric system implemented, your company would still be able to weather out the depressing effects of recession. Your metric system right now could very well be ineffective already due to recession itself. Thus, there should be a revamping of the metric system that you have right now. This way, the recruitment process would not be jeopardized in any way.

Going back to the development of metrics to deal with recession for the Human Resource department, here are some common examples that you might want to check out.

* CPH or Cost per Hire. Human Resource departments should not be all too eager to use this metric at all. This is because CPH is one metric that has a very volatile nature. At best, this metric should just be used when you are creating budget plans or reviewing the yearly performance of the company.

* OTH or Offer to Hire. This is the total number of offers that have been made by the company to fill a variable number of job posts available. Measurement should be done by sub-groups, across groups, departments, requisitions, divisions, and the like, so that hiring would be done according to needs, personalities, and the areas that need improvement or work as well.

* ITO or Interview to Offer. This is the total number interviews that have been made by the sub-groups so that the variable number of job offers could be generated.

* RTI or Route to Interest. This is the ratio of the router resumes to the resumes of interest that have been sent to the hiring managers. There are several variations of the resumes of interest here. Some of them have been pre-screened by the hiring managers themselves while others have been phone screened as well. Others still have been processed by the hiring managers themselves, as efforts to procure interview arrangements right away. The outcome here is not really the issue. It is the tool that indicates the capabilities of the recruiting process - all geared towards identifying and locating the profiles that match the positions available.

These are just some of the metrics that can help any company a lot when it comes to the hiring process in spite of recession. You may make use of some or all of them. You can also choose to create a set all on your own. Just make sure that the recession metrics that you have in mind are all relevant to the goals and objectives you want to achieve. These goals and objectives may have been modified a bit to deal with the effects of recession. But it should remain of corporate interest to achieve them altogether. This is the very purpose of developing the recession scorecard in the first place.

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