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How does your hiring funnel convert?

Drag the sliders to your stage conversion rates. See your applicant-to-hire rate, and how many applicants you need to source for N hires. The single biggest funnel leak is usually the phone-screen stage.

TL;DR

Across roles, 1-3% applicants-to-hire is typical — you need 30-100 applicants per hire. Strong tech roles can sustain 5-7% with tight sourcing; volume retail/CS often runs 0.5-1%. Greenhouse's Hiring Funnel report benchmarks stage-conversion rates by industry, role, and company size — drag the sliders below to compare your own funnel against those medians.

The biggest leverage point is almost always the phone-screen stage. The Bridge Group's SDR benchmark data consistently shows recruiters who screen only 10-15% of applicants (capacity-bottlenecked) lose strong candidates to throughput. AI screening unlocks 100% applicant coverage at the same recruiter headcount — and it shows up in your funnel as a 3-4x lift at the screen stage with no degradation downstream.

Your funnel · 4% applicant-to-hire conversion

  1. Applicants200
  2. Pass phone/AI screen60· 30% stage
  3. Pass HM call30· 50% stage
  4. Pass onsite15· 50% stage
  5. Offered12· 80% stage
  6. Accepted (hired)8· 70% stage

To make 3 hires with these rates

72

applicants you need to source. At 4% end-to-end conversion, that's the math. Improve any single stage — Raffi typically lifts the phone-screen + hiring-manager-call stages most — and the required input shrinks materially.

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The 72-second walkthrough: every applicant gets a real conversation, scored against your rubric. The shape of your funnel changes when the screening step doesn't bottleneck.

Frequently asked questions

What's a typical hiring funnel conversion rate?
Across roles, 1-3% applicants-to-hire is typical — meaning you need 30-100 applicants per hire. Strong tech roles can sustain 5-7% with good sourcing; volume retail/CS roles often run 0.5-1%. Stage-level conversions vary much more.
Which funnel stage matters most?
The phone/AI screen stage is usually where the biggest leverage is. If you're screening only 10-15% of applicants because of recruiter capacity, you're losing strong candidates to throughput. AI screening lets you talk to 100% of applicants.
How many applicants do I need per hire?
Apply your stage-conversion rates: screen × HM × onsite × offer × accept = total applicant-to-hire conversion. Divide your target hires by that ratio. Plug numbers into this calculator for an exact answer.
How do I improve funnel conversion?
Top 3 levers: (1) tighter ICP / better-fit applicants at the top, (2) higher-throughput phone-screen stage (AI screening unlocks this), (3) faster time-to-offer so strong candidates don't accept elsewhere. Most teams under-invest in #2.
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