Companies strive to improve quality of hire – a Wisdomjobs.com Report

Bangalore, November 11, 2017: Wisdomjobs.com, one of India’s leading end to end online recruitment and career solutions portals, today released a report on “How companies are striving to improve the quality of hirings.” Wisdomjobs.com surveyed 120 companies across Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Pune to understand their focus on improving quality of hire, and the metrics they employ to improve the quality of their hires. This survey includes companies from IT, E-Com, Retail, FMCG, Real Estate, Pharma and Manufacturing sector.

 

Companies have different hiring methodologies. Some focus on cost-effectiveness and quick turnarounds while others prioritize long-term success of their hires within the organizational template. Whatever the methodology, the single-most effective parameter to measure the success of a company’s hiring process is ‘quality of hire’. While some companies also place emphasis on ‘time to hire’, it is the quality of their hires that impacts organizational performance over time. 

 

Quality of Hire (QoH) helps companies measure the long-term value of a new hire. While it is a vague and often subjective measure, it offers the best indicator of an organization’s ability to onboard quality talent through its hiring processes.

 

Companies use several metrics such as performance of new hires, turnover and retention ratios, and satisfaction ratings by hiring managers to quantify the quality of their hires. However, certain aspects like employee engagement and cultural fit are intangibles that are difficult to define and measure. Figures like cost per hire, volume of hires etc. measure the effectiveness of the recruiting process but not the quality of employees hired through that process.

 

Upon releasing the report, Mr. Ajay Kolla, Founder & CEO, Wisdomjobs.com said, “The single-most effective parameter to measure the success of a company’s hiring process is ‘quality of hire’. In the long run, companies need to develop an effective quality of hire measurement based on parameters defined by all organizational stakeholders.” He further added, “Standardized assessments and realistic expectations can help companies to quantify the quality of their hires to the extent possible.”