source of hire
What is source of hire (SoH)?
Source of hire (SoH) is a recruitment metric that identifies where successful job candidates originally found out about the job openings or were sourced from. Common recruiting sources include but are not limited to:
- Job boards
- Employee referrals
- Social media
- Professional networks
- Company career pages and,
- Passive candidate recruitment.
HR professionals can use the source of hire metric to optimize their recruitment strategies by better understanding the effectiveness of their hiring sources.