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Offer Acceptance Rate
The percentage of extended job offers that are accepted by candidates.
Business Question Answered
“When we extend an offer, how often does the candidate say yes?”
What This Tells You
Competitiveness of compensation, brand, and candidate experience at the final decision point.
What It Does Not Tell You
Why declines happen — requires capturing decline reasons (comp, competing offer, counter-offer) to diagnose.
Formula & Example Calculation
Offers Accepted / Offers Extended × 100
Numerator
Offers Accepted
Denominator
Offers Extended
Example
42 offers extended, 36 accepted. Offer Acceptance Rate = 36 / 42 = 85.7%.
Recommended Dimensions & Segments
DepartmentLevelCompensation band
Recommended visualization: Trend line with rejection-reason breakdown
Technical Implementation Notes
Capture a structured decline-reason field in the ATS at offer-decline time; free text alone makes this hard to aggregate.
Data Quality Checks
- Ensure declined-offer reasons are logged before the requisition is closed out
Common Pitfalls
- Not tracking decline reasons, so a falling acceptance rate can't be diagnosed or fixed
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Metadata
Funnel StageN/A
Owner RoleTalent Acquisition Manager
CadenceMonthly
Data Sources
Applicant Tracking System
Tags
recruitingoffer-management
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