{"id":1897,"date":"2026-09-10T10:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.persiahr.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1897"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:38:02","slug":"metric_source_of_hire","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/help.persiahr.com\/en\/docs\/metric_source_of_hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Source of Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source of Hire is a recruitment metric that shows what percentage of successful hires came from each specific recruiting channel, such as LinkedIn, Djinni, Work.ua, employee referrals, the company career site, or social media.<\/p>\n<h3>Formula<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Source of Hire (%) = Number of hires from a specific source \/ Total number of hires during the period \u00d7 100%<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>How to Calculate Source of Hire<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure every candidate who accepts an offer is tagged with their source in your ATS.<\/li>\n<li>Group your hires by source for the selected period.<\/li>\n<li>Calculate each source\u2019s share of the total number of hires.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Typical Benchmarks<\/h3>\n<p>There is no single ideal mix, but a healthy distribution for an IT\/B2B company may look like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Direct sourcing \/ LinkedIn: 30\u201340%<\/li>\n<li>Employee referral program: 20\u201330%<\/li>\n<li>Job boards \/ aggregators: 20\u201325%<\/li>\n<li>Organic sources (career site, social media): 10\u201315%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Improve Source of Hire<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Shift your recruiting budget away from low-converting channels and toward the sources that consistently deliver results.<\/li>\n<li>Track not only the number of hires from each source, but also their quality, including the retention rate of candidates hired through each channel.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage employees to share job openings through an internal referral or incentive program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>\u00a9 PersiaHR<br \/>\nWhen republishing these materials, a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/persiahr.com\/\">PersiaHR<\/a> website is required.<\/h6>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source of Hire is a recruitment metric that shows what percentage of successful hires came from each specific recruiting channel, such as LinkedIn, Djinni, Work.ua, employee referrals, the company career site, or social media. 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