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47 days -- time to fill for Global recruitment sector (2025)
The average time to fill a vacancy worldwide is 47 days.
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2025
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60
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30
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45
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95
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Hirematic
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https://www.hirematic.com/it/key-recruitment-metrics/ ↗
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Key Recruiting Metrics You Need to Monitor
This blog post was originally published on March 6, 2023, and was updated on January 21, 2025.
Today’s recruiters face a variety of intersecting challenges — competition for qualified candidates is high, budgets are tight, and reaching applicants now requires posts on a dizzying number of job boards…
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Global recruitment sector: 47 days time to fill. Source: Hirematic (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/time-to-fill-worldwide-47-days
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