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How do your hiring KPIs compare to your peers?

Nucleus Research surveyed more than 1,000 talent acquisition leaders from midmarket organizations and large enterprises across industries to benchmark key hiring metrics.

See how your numbers compare.

Nucleus benchmarked metrics like time-to-hire, applicants per opening, and candidate quality to reveal what leads some recruiters and TA leaders to achieve stronger hiring outcomes. Interestingly, it isn’t that those people worked harder.

Nucleus compared the results of ICIMS customer respondents with those of other survey respondents and found key differences in performance. Look for the ICIMS difference below.

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Industry insights

Healthcare insights

19 days

Average time-to-hire

110

Applicants per opening

22%

Application rate

28%

Average qualified applicants

25%

Interview-to-hire ratio

77%

Offer acceptance rate

The ICIMS difference

Nucleus found that ICIMS customers in healthcare had higher numbers of applicants per opening, more completed applications, and a higher percentage of qualified candidates.

Retail insights

19 days

Average time-to-hire

126

Applicants per opening

24%

Application rate

30%

Average qualified applicants

26%

Interview-to-hire ratio

77%

Offer acceptance rate

The ICIMS difference

Retailers using iCIMS had more applicants per opening and achieved higher offer acceptance rates.

Hospitality insights

14 days

Average time-to-hire

88

Applicants per opening

26%

Application rate

31%

Average qualified applicants

22%

Interview-to-hire ratio

77%

Offer acceptance rate

The ICIMS difference

Hospitality organizations using ICIMS had substantially more applicants per opening, with one hospitality talent leader citing the platform’s greater reach compared to their previous ATS.

Manufacturing insights

18 days

Average time-to-hire

96

Applicants per opening

25%

Application rate

31%

Average qualified applicants

27%

Interview-to-hire ratio

78%

Offer acceptance rate

The ICIMS difference

Manufacturers using ICIMS had more applicants per opening, a higher percentage of qualified applicants, and improved interview-to-hire ratios

Finance insights

24 days

Average time-to-hire

196

Applicants per opening

23%

Application rate

32%

Average qualified applicants

26%

Interview-to-hire ratio

76%

Offer acceptance rate

The ICIMS difference

“What stands out the most by far is user experience. It’s clear that [ICIMS] was designed by people with a recruiter-first mentality.”

-Talent Leader, Finance

ICIMS customers demonstrate stronger hiring outcomes and more efficient recruiting processes, driven by higher applicant volumes and stronger candidate conversion rates.

Analyst Evelyn McMullen

Nucleus Research

The best-of-breed advantage

Nucleus compared overall hiring benchmarks for all companies with those of the best-of-breed vendor with the highest ATS market share, ICIMS.

The ICIMS difference

ICIMS customers get 49% more applicants per opening on average compared to organizations using other talent acquisition systems.

ICIMS drives broader applicant reach while enabling teams to operate more productively and proactively, translating to improved downstream hiring outcomes.

Analyst Evelyn McMullen

Nucleus Research

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