Establishing metrics that are clear, meaningful and easy to measure has always been a problem in recruiting. Cost per hire, time to hire and quality of hire all provoke much debate about their usefulness and their ability to be effectively measured.

Recruiting software provider SmartRecruiters have recently developed a methodology for hiring success metrics that are easy to measure but also robust enough to stand up to board or executive team scrutiny. To illustrate how these metrics work in practice they applied them to improve their own recruiting efforts. My guest this week is Sarah Wilson, SmartRecruiters’ Head of People, to talk us through and share learnings from that experience.

In the interview we discuss:

• The recruiting challenges at SmartRecruiters
• The importance of robust, understandable metrics
• Measuring cost
• Measuring speed
• Measuring quality

How SmartRecruiters improved their recruiting results

Sarah also shares her advice for companies getting started with hiring success metrics and tells us what she and SmartRecruiters have planned for the future.

These days everyone seems to have a view on recruiting technology. But with the proliferation of new solutions that we are currently seeing, comes an increase in marketing spin and a battle for thought leadership amongst industry commentators which makes it difficult for employers to find the signal in so much noise.

So what is actually going on and what are the real trends that people need to be aware of? Who better to guide us through than someone who is responsible for actually building some of the software itself. Hessam Lavi is both the founder of Jobspotting and the Director of Product for SmartRecruiters.

In the interview we discuss:

• What is happening in recruiting technology in 2018
• The critical talent acquisition issues that technology is attempting to address
• Recruiting automation and the emergence of automated sourcing
• The evolution of recruitment advertising
• The vital importance of data
• The potential for bias in machine learning

Hessam also gives us his take on the future of recruiting technology and explains why recruiters should be optimistic about the evolution of their role.