Overview

This article describes the ‘STANDARD Monthly Dashboard’ report available in SAP BusinessObjects. This article includes:


About this report

This report offers a series of tables providing a detailed breakdown of recruitment activity for the prior calendar month across a range of KPI measures, sliced by recruiter/job category/job family/ business group.


We encourage all of our clients to have this report scheduled as an Excel spreadsheet and emailed directly to recipients at the start of each new month.  TIP: Use the freeze panes function in Excel to make scrolling easier.


Use this report to answer questions such as:

  • How many jobs are open?
  • How many applications / offers / hires were processed last month?
  • What do the average time to offer / hire measures look like for the month?
  • On average, how many applications is it taking to get a hire?
  • How busy were different recruiters / the recruitment team last month?
  • Which media sources are delivering applicants to our site?  Which media sources are delivering hires? 
  • Is the company referral process achieving results?
  • Are there recruiters or hiring managers who are not managing to move candidates through buckets?
  • How many job seekers are on our careers site / subscribed to job alerts?


Running this report

Full instructions on running a report can be found here.


Report structure

This report is made up of eight tabs:

  1. Guide to Contents – instructions and an explanation of each report tab
  2. Analysis - key statistics for applications, offers, hires, new jobs and open jobs; sliced by various business subgroups
  3. Sourcing - analysis of registration and application sources across all media types both as an overall high level summary and in detail
  4. Candidates - a snapshot of sourcing for all candidates registered in your SnapHire system
  5. Buckets - shows the number of candidates in each bucket for all open jobs at the time the report was run
  6. Jobs Open - list of all jobs open by recruiter, with total applications, offers, hires, and vacancies to fill.
  7. Charts - graphical representation of key data
  8. Technical Spec - this tab includes all the parameters and prompts that were used to create this report. If required, here you can check what information the report is based on


Input controls

Whilst this report is primarily designed to be viewed in Excel, the data can also be interrogated from within BusinessObjects using input controls.   For information about using input controls to interrogate your data dynamically from within BusinessObjects please refer to this article Using input controls


Note that this report excludes jobs with the status of Archived, and Pipeline jobs by default.  Recruiters with an email address ending in @snaphire.com or @aotal.com are also excluded.