Measure, iterate, and improve every part of your hiring process
Individual goals are crucial to hiring efficiency as they drive accountability and promote a vision to attain for individual contributors.
You can set individual goals to track your progress across objectives like the number of candidates added, the number of candidates hired, and more.
Individual goals work best when your hiring team's responsibilities are set. For instance, the Candidates hired goal gives credit to a job's recruiter. An individual needs to be assigned to the recruiter role in order to track their goal attainment.
Note: Individual goals can only be set and viewed by individual users with Job Admin or Site Admin permissions.
Available individual goals
Candidates added goal
Use the Candidates added goal to set a target for the number of candidates you'd like to add within a specific time frame. Credit for this goal will go to the user selected in the Who gets credit field when a candidate is added to Greenhouse Recruiting.
Prospects added goal
Use the Prospects added goal to set a target for the number of prospects you'd like to add within a specific time frame. Credit for this goal will go to the user selected in the Who gets credit field when a prospect is added to Greenhouse Recruiting.
Candidates referred goal
Use the Candidates referred goal to set a target for the number of candidates you refer within a specific time frame in Greenhouse Recruiting.
Candidates hired goal
Use the Candidates hired goal to set a target for the number of candidates you hire within a specific time frame in Greenhouse Recruiting. Credit for this goal goes to the job's recruiter.
Note: When multiple recruiters are present, credit accrues to the user responsible for recruiting tasks on the job's hiring team.
Create individual goals
To create an individual, click Create goal in the My goals section of your dashboard.
In the Create goal window, fill out the following fields to define your individual goal.
Under Activity, select from a list of available goals to measure your individual performance for a specific recruiting activity.
Select a Frequency to determine how often Greenhouse Recruiting will measure your performance for this goal.
Set a Target value for your individual goal. If you'd like to create an individual goal for adding 10 candidates per week, enter '10' as your target value.
Note: The target value can't be greater than 5,000.
Click Create goal when you're finished.
Your goal will now appear in the My goals section of your dashboard. This goal will update in real time as you add, refer, and hire candidates and prospects.
Note: You may need to personalize your dashboard to ensure the My goals tile appears.
Edit individual goals
To edit your individual goals, click See all goals in the My goals section of your dashboard.
Create additional goals
On the My goals page, click Create goal to add any additional individual goals that you have not yet set up.
Edit existing goals
To edit an existing individual goal, hover over the goal and click the pencil icon.
In the Edit goal window, update your goal's frequency or target value. Click Save when you're done.
Note: You can't change an existing goal's activity. If you'd like to stop tracking a selected activity, you can turn off or delete this goal instead.
Turn goals on or off
Turn your individual goals off to temporarily stop tracking your attainment. When you turn off an individual goal, it will no longer appear in the My goals section of your dashboard. In addition, you won't be able to review data for this goal in reports while it's turned off. You can turn this goal back on at any time to resume tracking your attainment.
On the My goals page, click the toggle to turn off a goal.
Click the toggle again to turn a goal back on.
Delete individual goals
You can also delete an individual goal at any time. When you delete a goal, it will be removed from your list of individual goals. You will no longer be able to track this goal in your dashboard or reports, and historical attainment metrics will not be available for this goal in your reports.
Note: You cannot undo this action. If you'd like to start tracking attainment for a deleted goal's activity at a later date, you'll need to create a new goal.
To delete an individual goal, hover over the goal and click the delete icon.
Click Delete goal to confirm that you'd like to delete this goal.