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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.