246: Tactical Tuesday - Recruitment Ratios You Should Be Tracking, Pt. 4 ft. Vivien Maron

About this episode

In this episode, Sam and Vivien discuss the Interview to Placement metric and strategies to improve hiring efficiency.

In the finale of our Recruitment Ratios series, Sam and Vivien tackle the Interview to Placement metric, defining the efficiency gap between the rookie standard (10:1) and the expert target (5:1). The discussion moves beyond simple numbers into the tactical "control" variables of the closing process, including how to preempt scheduling bottlenecks by requesting block availability upfront and how to navigate hiring slowdowns during the holiday season. Viv also reveals a crucial anti-ghosting formula: asking candidates what they love about their current job to predict—and prevent—last-minute withdrawals during the offer stage Explore all our episodes and catch the full video experience at loxo.co/podcasts Becoming a Hiring Machine is brought to you by Loxo. To discover more about us, just visit loxo.co

People in this episode

Host: Sam

Guest: Vivien Maron

Topics covered

• recruitment ratios
• interview metrics
• hiring process
• candidate engagement
• closing strategies

Keywords

• recruitment
• interview to placement
• efficiency gap
• scheduling
• candidate ghosting

Sponsors

Loxo

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