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Individual in-house recruiters carry requisition loads spanning between a single-digit number to well over 100. What is the right amount?
Well, it depends on a variety of factors, including the position and industry they are recruiting for, the resources available to them and their additional responsibilities.
"Because each organization and each market are so different, and there are so many factors that go into why a candidate would apply to one organization over another, there is not one universal answer to the amount of requisitions a recruiter should have," said Tim Sackett, SHRM-SCP, president of HRU Technical Resources, an IT and engineering staffing firm headquartered in Lansing, Mich., and author of The Talent Fix: A Leader's Guide to Recruiting Great Talent (SHRM, 2018). "Using an 'average' requisition load per recruiter is nonsensical. Each organization, though, can figure out its ideal recruiter requisition load from its own data."
National averages across all industries and employer sizes tend to fluctuate between 30 to 40 open requisitions per recruiter at any one time, according to the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM's) HR Knowledge Center. The median tends to fluctuate between 15 to...