What Candidates Won’t Tell You (But Told Us): New Jobseeker Research for Smarter Hiring | August 27, 2026 at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT
Every business should track time to hire, applicant to interview ratio, offer acceptance rate, and early retention at 30 and 90 days. Together, these show where a hiring process is working and where it's breaking down.
How long it takes from posting a job to an accepted offer.
How many applicants it takes to find someone worth interviewing. A low ratio can point to a posting or screening problem.
How often offers are accepted. A low rate often points to pay, process speed, or candidate experience.
Whether new hires stay past the first few months, which reflects hiring quality as much as onboarding.
It depends heavily on role and industry, so track your own trend over time rather than chasing a universal number.
A dropping acceptance rate usually signals a specific, fixable problem, like pay, speed, or how the offer is presented.
Early exits are often a sign that a mismatch existed before the hire, not something that happened after.
An ATS that tracks every applicant in one place, like Wizehire, makes these numbers visible without building separate spreadsheets to track them.
If you want clearer visibility into your hiring numbers, Wizehire can help.
