time-to-fill

Intermediate 👥 Human Resources

Definition

The number of days between posting a job opening and a candidate accepting the offer. The metric that reveals how desperately understaffed you've been while HR 'sources quality candidates.'

Example Usage

Our time-to-fill is 87 days, which explains why everyone's been doing two jobs for three months.

Origin

Standard recruiting metric tracked since the formalization of HR analytics in the 1990s

Fun Fact

The average time-to-fill in the U.S. is 42 days, but for specialized roles it can exceed 100 days, leaving positions vacant for months.

Source: Recruiting analytics and metrics terminology

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