Comments on: Job boards and the tyranny of statistics http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/2010/02/job-boards-and-the-tyranny-of-statistics/ Making a success of online recruitment Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:44:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: WJS http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/2010/02/job-boards-and-the-tyranny-of-statistics/#comment-2565 WJS Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:00:23 +0000 http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/?p=387#comment-2565 Good points that will have relevance for professional recruiters. Indeed, any professional recruiter will probably have such metrics and KPIs in place. Indeed, I would hazard that it was these professional recruiters that pushed job boards in the direction of getting "applications" audited. But again, this is just more statistics. Valid though they are. I still suspect that they will be both alien and irrelevant for the small direct recruiter. You can only get such stats if you have already posted jobs. So it's a snapshot in hindsight. And, for the company that is posting ten or fifteen jobs a year it's unlikely that they will have an ATS that tracks applications and placements. I suppose what we are really looking is the killer stat: hires per job ad. Or something like that. But how, as a job board, do you get your hands on that stat? Good points that will have relevance for professional recruiters. Indeed, any professional recruiter will probably have such metrics and KPIs in place. Indeed, I would hazard that it was these professional recruiters that pushed job boards in the direction of getting “applications” audited.

But again, this is just more statistics. Valid though they are. I still suspect that they will be both alien and irrelevant for the small direct recruiter. You can only get such stats if you have already posted jobs. So it’s a snapshot in hindsight. And, for the company that is posting ten or fifteen jobs a year it’s unlikely that they will have an ATS that tracks applications and placements.

I suppose what we are really looking is the killer stat: hires per job ad. Or something like that. But how, as a job board, do you get your hands on that stat?

]]> By: Rayanne Thorn http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/2010/02/job-boards-and-the-tyranny-of-statistics/#comment-2549 Rayanne Thorn Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:19:05 +0000 http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/?p=387#comment-2549 Good and valid points. Which is why understanding job boards performance is so relevant. Breaking down your unique job board stats, to fully understand the impact of your spend is imperative and can only be deemed wise. Why would you blindly post adverts? To blindly hope the perfect candidate sees it? You need to know the return. Is there a return on the time and money spent on posting adverts? How do you know? As a recruiter, corporate or otherwise, it is your responsibility to know results of your spend and then being able to even justify your existence. If you can't do either, know and justify, then you can in no way, understand the "use impact" of job boards to your company/business. Good and valid points. Which is why understanding job boards performance is so relevant. Breaking down your unique job board stats, to fully understand the impact of your spend is imperative and can only be deemed wise. Why would you blindly post adverts? To blindly hope the perfect candidate sees it?

You need to know the return. Is there a return on the time and money spent on posting adverts? How do you know?

As a recruiter, corporate or otherwise, it is your responsibility to know results of your spend and then being able to even justify your existence. If you can’t do either, know and justify, then you can in no way, understand the “use impact” of job boards to your company/business.

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