Quality of hire is recruiters’ most valuable metric, LinkedIn’s Future of Recruiting Report 2019 shows. Some 88% of recruiting professionals said quality of hire would be very important over the next five years.
That’s an acceleration of a trend we’ve seen for years.
Back in 2016, for example, LinkedIn’s Global Reporting Trends Report showed quality of hire was a top metric for 42% of businesses.
What hasn’t changed is, many businesses are still unsure how to actually take control and improve quality of hire. It’s 2020, folks. Let’s sort this out.
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