B
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50%
50% -- hire rate of top three candidates for companies (2026)
For many roles, companies are able to hire one of the top three candidates they have identified for a position less than 50% of the time.
- applies to many roles
- stated as less than 50% of the time
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Value
50%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Aberdeen
Primary
Tier B
http://www.aberdeenessentials.com/?p=39360 ↗
Source Article
Rebuilding Your Talent Pipeline to Be Candidate-Centric
Original Research
Aberdeen
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Reported as 'less than 50%'
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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companies: 50% hire rate of top three candidates. Source: Aberdeen (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/hire-top-three-candidate-rate
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