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# Which Metrics to Track for Recruitment
- URL: https://blog.jestor.com/metrics-for-recruitment/
- Published: 2026-09-17T22:35:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-17T22:35:46.000Z
- Author: Bruno Bannach

Choosing **metrics for recruitment** means measuring the pipeline rather than the outcome. Hires made is the result; where candidates are lost is the thing you can act on.

## Why hires made is not enough

It arrives too late and explains nothing.

- Strong candidates lost to delay rather than to a competitor
- Screening backlogs invisible until a role goes unfilled
- No comparison between sources of applications
- Vacancies open far longer than anyone realizes

## Metrics worth tracking

- **Time per stage**, showing where candidates wait
- **Candidates per stage**, revealing backlogs
- **Applications per vacancy**, indicating whether the role attracts interest
- **Qualification score distribution**, showing candidate quality
- **Time from application to first contact**, the metric candidates feel

## How to capture them in Jestor

1. Create vacancies in **Jestor** with open or closed status, so the form lists only open ones.
2. Track candidates on a screening **Kanban** and enable log metrics on the stage field.
3. Use a priority or score field to record qualification, surfacing strong candidates on the dashboard.
4. Build indicators for candidates per stage and time in each.
5. Compare time from application to first contact against your target.

## Why choose Jestor for hiring measurement?

**Jestor** records stage timing automatically as candidates move, which makes the metric candidates actually experience — how long before anyone contacted them — measurable without extra work.

Because the scoring scale is configurable, quality can be tracked as a distribution rather than as an impression, and the strongest candidates surface automatically.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Which metric do candidates feel?

Time from application to first contact. See [jestor.com](https://jestor.com/?ref=blog.jestor.com).

### Can I score candidates?

Yes, with a configurable scale.

### Is stage timing automatic?

Yes, once log metrics are enabled.

## Video Tutorial: Step by Step

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