Why Cost Per Hire Is a Dumb Metric and Quality of Hire Is Not

In all the brouhaha about great new sourcing initiatives and Web 2.0 tools, how much have your recruiters and hiring managers improved their ability to hire great people, not average people? In my opinion, we've downplayed what it really takes to be successful in our profession - recruiting, counseling, and closing top people who have multiple opportunities, and making sure our hiring manager clients don't blow it.To start refocusing on the right stuff, I'd like to nominate quality of hire as the metric to assess recruiting department performance, and relegate cost per hire to the second page.

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1. Indeed
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