Determine the length of your shortlist

Process Overview

<p>How many candidates do you have to shortlist to get a successful hire?</p><p>When it comes to deciding the length of your shortlist, most people have a pre-determined number in mind. For example, interviewing four to six candidates to get one successful hire.</p><p>For high volume recruitment roles like customer service representatives where you need to hire hundreds of people, you might shortlist any candidate that meets your criteria.</p><p>The best way to determine the length of your shortlist is to work backwards from the average conversion rates in your own recruitment process. As a reference point, the industry average application to interview conversion rate is 12%, the interview to offer conversion rate is 17%, and the offer to accepted conversion rate is 89%.</p><p>According to these numbers, for every 100 candidates you source, you need to shortlist 12 of them to interview, two of them will receive an offer, and one candidate will accept in order for you to get one successful hire.</p>