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10% -- application completion rate for average career site (email-driven) (2025)

Name: Application Completion Rate Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-28

2025 · GoHire

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10%

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Data Vintage

2025

Entity

average career site (email-driven)

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GoHire Primary Tier C

https://gohire.com/text-recruiting-vs-email-recruiting/ ↗

Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

Text Recruiting Vs Email Recruiting: Why SMS Wins

98% of text messages are opened. Roughly 20% of recruiting emails are. That single comparison explains why the text recruiting vs email recruiting debate has shifted from “should we try SMS?” to “why are we still leading with email?” For recruiting teams managing 100+ candidate conversations per mon…

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average career site (email-driven): 10% application completion rate. Source: GoHire (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/career-site-completion-10

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