6 Datapoints Every Healthcare Recruiter Should Track in 2025
In a market where qualified talent is in high demand and short supply, successful healthcare recruiting depends on more than intuition. It depends on the data. The right metrics sharpen your strategy, reveal hidden opportunities, and help you make confident, informed decisions.
Tracking What Really Counts
At Recruitics, we partner closely with healthcare hiring teams to uncover what truly moves the needle. We turn complex data into a clear, actionable strategy. So you can focus on what matters most: hiring smarter, moving faster, and building lasting teams.
Here are six data points every healthcare recruiter should track in 2025 to stay ahead and hire smarter.
Time to Fill (By Role and Location)
Not all roles—or markets—are created equal. Tracking time to fill by job type and location gives you clarity on where hiring bottlenecks are and what’s realistic to promise hiring managers. A surge in time to fill for critical roles (like RNs or radiology techs) may signal that your sourcing strategy needs attention or the market has shifted.
Bonus: Over time, this data helps forecast seasonal or regional hiring challenges before they hit.
Candidate Drop-Off Rate
Where are candidates exiting the funnel? Is it during the application? Assessment? Post-interview? This metric helps you diagnose friction points in your process, so you can reduce ghosting, fine-tune your experience, and keep qualified candidates engaged all the way through. Whether it's fixing a clunky application or a slow response time, reducing drop-off means more qualified candidates making it to the finish line.
Source of Hire (With Quality Insight)
Knowing where candidates come from is good. Knowing which sources bring you quality hires—those who stay, perform well, and align with your culture—is even better. Layer performance or retention data when possible to get the complete picture and optimize your sourcing mix. When you know what’s working, you can invest with confidence.
Candidate Experience Score
Whether collected through surveys or reviews, candidate experience data is more than a "nice to have." It's a powerful signal of your employer brand and influences everything from offer acceptance to referral rates. Make it a habit to gather feedback. And take action.
Internal Mobility and Rehire Rates
Healthcare is an industry where people often want to grow within the system. Are you making that easy? Tracking internal hires shows whether your current employees see a future with you—and whether you’re leveraging the talent you already have.
