To analyze sources of hire metrics, it is essential to have a clear and specific goal to strive for with your sourcing strategy. This could be anything from increasing the quality, diversity, or speed of your hires. Once you have identified your goal, you can then select the most relevant and meaningful metrics to focus on and compare the results of different sources. To do this, you can use ratios to compare the number of hires to the number of applicants or interviews from each source and calculate the hire rate or the interview rate. Additionally, ratios can also be used to compare the cost or time of each source to the number of hires or quality hires from each source and calculate the cost per hire or time to hire. Benchmarks are another way to compare your sources of hire metrics with your own historical data or industry standards and best practices. This allows you to compare your current sources of hire metrics with previous or desired results and identify any gaps or opportunities for improvement. Segmentation is a useful method for dividing your sources of hire metrics into smaller, more specific groups based on criteria such as role, department, location, level, skill, candidate characteristics (such as demographics, qualifications, or preferences), and more. This helps you understand the variations and differences between them as well as any preferences and behavior of different types of candidates.