Healthcare Recruitment Metrics:
Help Justify Your Efforts
Recruitment metrics have gained relevancy among healthcare staffing professionals in
recent years due to increasing shortages of healthcare professionals. Metrics data
collection and analysis are valuable because they help track the effectiveness of
recruitment strategies and indicate where adjustments in recruitment tactics need to be
made. Metrics reporting also enables organizations to track recruiting costs and helps to
guide and justify recruitment budgets.
The American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA)
began collecting human resources reporting data in 2001 in an annual survey. One goal
in initiating this survey was to help ease healthcare workforce shortages by
benchmarking key issues and industry trends. The American Society for Healthcare
Human Resources Administration now features an online healthcare human resources
metrics tool as a replacement for the annual report. This resource allows organizations to
participate in the metrics survey and benchmark against the collected data. Historical
reports of the annual survey are available.
The healthcare human resources metrics tool focuses on vacancy rates, separation rates,
time-to-fill, retention rates, cost-per-hire and hire ratios.
The following information features data from ASHHRA’s Online HR Metrics Tool. The
data is based on the 2005-2007 fiscal years and includes all facilities. At the time this
report was written, over 200 distinct organizations had participated.
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