Bersin & Associates first-ever Talent Acquisition Factbook 2011: Benchmarks and Trends in Spending, Staffing, and Key Recruiting Metrics shares insights and benchmarks to help recruiting managers make the best investments today and tomorrow.  The report provides a unique look at recruiting budgets and staffing, as well as key productivity and quality metrics, and examines not just how much talent acquisition operations are spending, but how they are spending their dollars.

The study covers the U.S. market and includes data from 414 talent acquisition professionals within a range of company sizes and industries. The report is a must-have for Talent Acquisition executives and professionals looking to benchmark their organizations against key efficiency metrics.  The Factbook delivers in-depth analysis, using examples and cases-in-point from our interviews.

The report breaks down metrics and trends across four main categories – staffing, spending, productivity and quality.  Detailed data on each metric is provided by company size and key industry, and include:

•  Cost per hire 
•  Year over year change in agency and contractor spending 
•  Spending allocations by source   
•  Percent of spending on recruiting systems and technologies 
•  Time to fill 
•  Number of open requisitions per recruiter 
•  Number of applications per job posting by type of position 
•  Percent of hires filled by source 
•  Staffing per 100 new hires 
•  Year over year change in headcount 
•  New hire turnover 
•  Use of new hire assessments