Source of Hire

Source of Hire: Where successful candidates came from.

Formula

Source share = Hires in period from the source / Total hires in period

Computable definition

The canonical formula in the GASP formula grammar. The MCP server compiles it to SQL over the datasets listed below.

count_distinct(field.employee_id where in_period(field.hire_date)) / total(count_distinct(field.employee_id where in_period(field.hire_date)))

Unit: percent (the formula yields an unscaled ratio)

Breakdowns

Reported with one row per hire_source value, each read against the whole population (share of total)

Notes: Reported per hire source: hires in the period through the source over all hires in the period, read on the period-end employee snapshot.

Data requirements

Grain: Per event · Frequency: Per hire · Aggregation: event · Staged: no · Main source: HRIS.

Field	Dataset	Type
`employee_id`	employee	string
`hire_date`	employee	date
`hire_source`	employee	string
`snapshot_date`	employee	date

Example SQL (Postgres)

SELECT _d.hire_source AS hire_source, (CAST((SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT employee_id) FROM employee WHERE snapshot_date = :period_end AND (hire_date >= :period_start AND hire_date <= :period_end) AND hire_source = _d.hire_source) AS DOUBLE PRECISION) / NULLIF((SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT employee_id) FROM employee WHERE snapshot_date = :period_end AND (hire_date >= :period_start AND hire_date <= :period_end)), 0)) AS source_of_hire
FROM (SELECT 'referral' AS hire_source UNION ALL SELECT 'inbound' AS hire_source UNION ALL SELECT 'sourced' AS hire_source UNION ALL SELECT 'agency' AS hire_source UNION ALL SELECT 'internal' AS hire_source UNION ALL SELECT 'campus' AS hire_source UNION ALL SELECT 'other' AS hire_source) _d

From an agent: with the GASP MCP server, call lookup_metric({ "name": "Source of Hire" }) or generate_query({ "metric": "Source of Hire", "adapter": "<your adapter JSON>" }).

What It Tells You

Most effective recruiting channels.

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