Sourcing Strategies
The professional networking site most recruiters use daily
What is LinkedIn?
The average time it takes from job posting to offer acceptance
What is time-to-hire?
The average number of seconds a recruiter spends reviewing a resume.
What is 6–7 seconds?
The acronym “ATS” stands for this.
What is Applicant Tracking System?
The day of the week with the highest number of job applications submitted.
What is Tuesday?
Boolean search operator that narrows results to include all specified terms
What is AND?
A high value in this metric means candidates are moving smoothly through the funnel
What is conversion rate?
This term refers to hiring within the company instead of externally.
What is internal mobility?
Instead of rejecting completely, some recruiters reclassify candidates into this type of pipeline group
What is Talent Pool?
This country introduced the world’s first 4-day workweek law
What is Iceland?
This technique involves reaching out to passive candidates directly
What is cold outreach?
Cost per hire is typically calculated by dividing total recruiting costs by this
What is the number of hires?
This major tech company is famous for once asking unusual “puzzle” interview questions
What is Google?
The process of comparing pay across the market to set salaries.
What is Compensation Benchmarking?
The most common interview question globally.
What is “Tell me about yourself”?
This method of sourcing involves searching social media platforms (like Twitter/X or Instagram) for people sharing relevant hashtags or content.
What is Social Sourcing?
This metric shows how many offers are turned down.
What is offer acceptance rate?
This job board was originally created as a pet project at MIT and became one of the biggest hiring platforms in the world
What is Indeed?
The practice of candidates disappearing during the hiring process.
What is ghosting?
This city is often called the “recruiting capital” of the U.S. because of its talent market.
What is New York City?
One of Gem’s most popular features is its ability to track this key metric across sourcing campaigns
What is response rate?
A recruiter made 10 hires this quarter, but only 5 are still employed after 6 months. What is the recruiter’s retention rate?
What is 50%
The global staffing industry is estimated to be worth over this amount annually.
What is 500 billion?
A strategy where recruiters proactively build a pool of potential candidates.
What is talent pipelining?
The estimated % of jobs filled through networking rather than job postings.
What is ~70–80%?