{
  "rogueId": "hr.avg_days_to_fill",
  "slug": "avg_days_to_fill",
  "domain": "hr",
  "defaultLabel": "Average Days to Fill",
  "description": "Mean elapsed days between requisition opening (approved and posted) and offer acceptance, averaged across requisitions filled in the period. The headline recruiting-velocity KPI commonly tracked in the SHRM Talent Acquisition Benchmarking Report. Common pitfall: choosing between time-to-fill (req-opened to offer-accepted) and time-to-hire (first-applicant to offer-accepted) without locking the convention — the two can differ by weeks. Best practice is to standardize on time-to-fill (the SHRM benchmark convention) and document any deviation.",
  "fieldType": "number",
  "unit": "days",
  "maturity": "general",
  "suggestedForStages": [
    "seriesA",
    "seriesB",
    "seriesC",
    "public"
  ],
  "defaultOwningFunctions": [
    "HR"
  ],
  "stageRelevance": {
    "seriesA": "recommended",
    "seriesB": "recommended",
    "seriesC": "recommended",
    "public": "recommended"
  },
  "definitionSource": {
    "tier": "published",
    "sourceName": "SHRM Talent Acquisition Benchmarking Report",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/research/talent-acquisition-benchmarking-report",
    "sectionRef": "Time-to-Fill",
    "publicationDate": "2023-01-01",
    "attributionNotice": null
  },
  "formula": "Average Days to Fill = Σ(offer-accepted-date − requisition-opened-date) / count of requisitions filled in the period. Convention: time-to-fill per SHRM Talent Acquisition Benchmarking Report — req-opened to offer-accepted, not first-applicant to offer-accepted.",
  "whyItMatters": "A stretching time-to-fill is one of the earliest leading indicators of either comp-band misfit, role-spec creep, or recruiter capacity exhaustion. Combined with `hr.open_positions`, it projects when promised capacity actually arrives.",
  "interpretationGuidance": "SHRM Talent Acquisition Benchmarking Report typically reports cross-industry medians around 40–45 days time-to-fill, with technical roles (engineering, data) often longer (60–90+ days). Verify against the most recent SHRM report for the exact figure. A sustained increase of >20% with no role-mix change typically signals a recruiting-pipeline issue (industry folk-wisdom, not citation-grade).",
  "relatedKpiIds": [
    "hr.open_positions",
    "hr.hiring_plan",
    "hr.new_hires",
    "hr.key_openings",
    "hr.key_hires"
  ]
}