Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
H.James Harrington

In Measuring HRM-3, i have tried to give as many important recruitment metrics as possible so that HR professionals may choose one or two of them for their own purposes. As i said previously; those metrics are neither new nor invented for this website. Instead, they can easily be found by just clicking my favorite HR links on the left side. However, the important thing is to be aware of measurement vitality, to know how to align those metrics with overall business and HR strategies and how to interpret those along with a methodical approach. That’s why in most of the key research results we see that that the need for a measurement method and for an alignment are the missing pieces in HR professionals’ knowledge.

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