The long-awaited Sources of Hire Survey has come out from Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler, the team from CareerXroads. I have the link, but the content is distributed to Jobster (is there anything those guys don't have a hand in?)
I'm flipping through the survey, which is a technical study of how the most competitive corporations hire people. They don't use guesswork, and they clearly lay out which data is gathered effectively by the company and that which is sloppy.
It's an invaluable guide if you are in corporate recruiting and trying to find hard numbers on what works and what doesn't.
Some examples of what is available:
1) Percentages of hire: Job Boards, Your Careers Site, Third Party Recrutiers or Employee Referrals?
2) 32% of all hires were filled by internal transfers and promotions
3) Contingent workforce (contract labor) is at 18% of the total workforce.
4) Career Fairs provide more hires than Temp-to-Hire
There's tons of valuable information in the report, and I don't want to ruin the surprise for you. To get a copy of the report, go to the Jobster Blog and look for the e-mail link.
