it may be helpful if organisations published typical ratios of applicants to hires to let people plan accordingly
While in general I’m a big fan of more data, I worry that in this particular case it will shed more heat than light. I suspect that “ratios of applicants to hires” will be a really poor proxy for how competitive a position is. For example, Walmart in DC has something like a 2.6% acceptance rate.
Further, I don’t think there’s a good way to provide actually useful statistics on applicant quality in a privacy-conscious way. Eg, you can’t just use the mean or the median. It doesn’t matter if the median candidate has <1 year of ops job experience if the top 10 candidates all have 15+.
While in general I’m a big fan of more data, I worry that in this particular case it will shed more heat than light. I suspect that “ratios of applicants to hires” will be a really poor proxy for how competitive a position is. For example, Walmart in DC has something like a 2.6% acceptance rate.
Further, I don’t think there’s a good way to provide actually useful statistics on applicant quality in a privacy-conscious way. Eg, you can’t just use the mean or the median. It doesn’t matter if the median candidate has <1 year of ops job experience if the top 10 candidates all have 15+.