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Time to Hire

operationalpure operational · recruitment · days · organization

Days from candidate entering pipeline to accept.

How it’s computed

Formula
accept date - application date
Measurement model
operational (a formula over systems data) — not a reflective survey scale; “reliability” here means data quality, not internal consistency
record grain →← summary (lossy)ATS applicationsΔt 12modays to hireΔTime to Hirex̄
Fig. How Time to Hire is built — data sources → actions → metric, read left to right. The grain boundary marks where record detail becomes a summary.

What it operationalizes

This is a pure operational metric — it has no single latent construct behind it; it stands as its own node, connected to programs and outcomes rather than to a psychometric scale.

Use it

Track Time to Hire and its drivers in the People Analytics Toolbox — the registry’s evidence wired into deployable measurement.

Related metrics

Candidate Experience Score

Score derived from candidate surveys capturing satisfaction or likelihood to recommend the hiring process.

Failed Hire Rate

The percentage of hires who quit or are terminated within their first year.

Hiring Cost

Total cost to recruit, hire, onboard, and train a new employee.

Recruitment Cost

Total internal and external expenses incurred for recruiting during a period.

Programmatic access: /api/v1/metrics/metric.time_to_hire · /api/v1/evidence-statements?construct=.