You want to measure time, cost, quality and quantity. On the Line There are tips and tricks for hiring managers to follow when they are using the systems as well. Some are quite basic. Some people don't want to take a month of Sundays to fill this out. But the more information you give, the happier you'll be at the end of the day.
Most companies have a couple of hundred skill categories that they're dealing with.
We've limited our system to 13 categories. Seagate's Bowman advises that hiring managers plan ahead to know what their skill needs are with enough time to source them. Pure electronic exchanges are not appropriate for hiring anything other than commodity skills. You need a human to evaluate a human or the hiring will not be as effective as possible. Changepoint's twist on the model is that it allows companies to search within their own employee bases for skills needed and, if no matches for skills or availability are made, then it allows the hiring manager to send a requisition out to suppliers for candidates.