CRSP CRSP Recruitment Metrics & Analytics 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which recruitment metric best evaluates the effectiveness of individual sourcing channels such as LinkedIn, job boards, or employee referrals?
- Application completion rate
- Source-of-hire (Correct answer)
- Passive candidate ratio
- Requisition age
Correct answer: Source-of-hire
Source-of-hire tracks which channel produced each successful hire, enabling budget allocation optimization.
Question 2: A company's offer acceptance rate drops from 85% to 68%. Which action should a recruiter take FIRST?
- Immediately increase salary offers by 10%
- Analyze declined offer surveys and exit feedback for root causes (Correct answer)
- Reduce the number of offers extended
- Replace the ATS system
Correct answer: Analyze declined offer surveys and exit feedback for root causes
Before changing compensation, root cause analysis through declined-offer surveys identifies whether the issue is salary, process, or culture.
Question 3: What is the purpose of calculating a 'pipeline coverage ratio' in recruitment?
- To measure how many job boards are active
- To ensure enough qualified candidates exist to fill projected openings (Correct answer)
- To track background check completion rates
- To assess ATS license utilization
Correct answer: To ensure enough qualified candidates exist to fill projected openings
Pipeline coverage ratio compares available qualified candidates to open roles, ensuring sufficient talent supply.
Question 4: Which statistical concept is used when analyzing whether a selection test predicts future job performance?
- Standard deviation of salaries
- Predictive validity coefficient (Correct answer)
- Applicant-to-hire ratio
- Requisition open age
Correct answer: Predictive validity coefficient
Predictive validity (correlation coefficient) measures how well test scores correlate with subsequent job performance outcomes.
Question 5: When benchmarking recruitment KPIs, which organization provides widely referenced data on cost-per-hire standards in the US?
- EEOC
- SHRM (Correct answer)
- OSHA
- DOL Bureau of Labor Statistics
Correct answer: SHRM
SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) publishes annual benchmarking data on cost-per-hire and other recruitment KPIs.
Question 6: A recruiter notices that female candidates drop off disproportionately at the phone screen stage. Which type of analysis should be conducted?
- Salary equity analysis
- Adverse impact analysis by stage (Correct answer)
- Turnover cost calculation
- Job satisfaction survey
Correct answer: Adverse impact analysis by stage
Adverse impact analysis by pipeline stage identifies where protected group candidates are screened out at higher rates than others.
CRSP CRSP Recruitment Metrics & Analytics 2
Which recruitment metric best evaluates the effectiveness of individual sourcing channels such as LinkedIn, job boards, or employee referrals?