The use of technology to systematize and scale employee referral programs — automating referral submission, tracking, status updates, and reward fulfillment to make it easy for employees to consistently refer qualified candidates.
Time to hire measures the candidate journey speed from first contact to offer acceptance, which is distinct from time to fill that measures the full cycle from job opening to hire. The distinction matters because time to hire reflects candidate experience and process efficiency, while time to fill also captures pre-search activities like requisition approval and job brief development. Reducing time to hire requires addressing the stages where candidates wait between steps: the gap between first interview and second interview, between final interview and offer delivery, and between verbal and written offer. These waits, where the organization controls the timeline, account for most of the time-to-hire variance between organizations and are therefore the highest-leverage improvement targets.
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