Where does the time go in hiring?

The Hiring Velocity Framework breaks every interview stage into three waits (time to book, time to interview and time to decide) and measures each one across 7.7 million applications. See which wait takes longest, why the middle of your process is the slowest part, and how to measure your own.

Yellow cover of The Hiring Velocity Framework report by candidate.fyi

The anatomy of a stage 3 waits

An interview stage is not one clock.

Measure the handoffs separately to see where velocity is lost.

Stage 1

book interview decide

Stage 2

book interview decide

Stage 3+

book interview decide

Time to book Time to interview Time to decide

THE CHALLENGE

Hiring is slow in predictable places

A typical interview stage takes about a week from start to decision. The second stage of a hiring process takes more than twice as long as the first.

A typical interview stage takes about a week from start to decision.

The second stage takes more than twice as long as the first.

About 1 in 3 availability requests never get a response from the candidate.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

A clearer way to measure hiring velocity

Use the framework to see the waits inside every stage, compare your process with benchmark data, and run the same analysis on your own ATS data.

The anatomy of a stage

The three waits inside every interview stage, and which one is the largest.

Where your process slows down

Why the middle stages take longest, whether a job has 6 stages or 10.

Benchmarks for each wait

Compare your time to book, time to interview and time to decide against 12 months of data.

A scorecard and a method

Score your process, and learn how to run the same analysis on your own ATS data.

KEY FINDINGS

A sneak peek at the data

The Hiring Velocity Framework turns a slow process into four measurable signals.

⌛

~5 days

From booking to interview

The median wait from booking an interview to it taking place.

↗

20 hours

To get an interview booked

The median time to get an interview booked.

↔

~4h vs ~28h

Self-booking vs availability requests

The median time to book with self-booking against availability requests.

1/11

1 in 11

Requests that do not become interviews

Scheduling requests that never become an interview.

Data from 12 months of candidate.fyi customer activity.

Download the Hiring Velocity Framework

See which wait takes longest, understand why the middle of your process slows down, and learn how to measure your own.