The Recruiting Problem Nobody's Looking at Closely Enough
Most organizations track time-to-fill and offer acceptance rate. Maybe cost-per-hire. And when those numbers are off, the instinct is to spend more, more job board budget, more agency fees, more LinkedIn outreach.
But spending more at the top of a leaking funnel just means losing more people further down.
The real question is never "how do we get more applicants." The real question is "why are we losing the right candidates after they've already found us?"
Stage 2 to Stage 3: 78% drop-off. Stage 3 to Stage 4: 64% drop-off. These are not uncommon numbers. They represent hundreds of qualified candidates who entered your process and left, not because they chose a competitor, but because something in your process failed them.
Without stage-by-stage data, you are flying blind. With it, the fix is usually obvious.