What is Cycle Time Analytics?
Cycle time analytics is reporting that measures how long candidates spend at each stage of the hiring process, from application or sourcing through screening, interview, offer, and placement.
Why does Cycle Time Analytics matter?
Breaking time-to-hire down by stage shows recruiters and leadership exactly where delays happen, whether that is slow hiring-manager feedback, scheduling bottlenecks, or a slow offer approval process, rather than just a single overall number.
How does Cycle Time Analytics work?
An ATS timestamps every stage change for every candidate, then aggregates that data into reports showing average and median time spent per stage, often segmented by recruiter, client, or job type.
Frequently asked questions
How is cycle time analytics different from time-to-hire?
Time-to-hire is one overall number; cycle time analytics breaks that number down into the individual stages that make it up.
What stage most commonly causes delays?
It varies by organization, but hiring-manager feedback and interview scheduling are commonly cited as the slowest stages in cycle time reports.
How BrightMove helps
BrightMove’s Wisdom analytics platform reports cycle time by stage, so agencies can see exactly where a hiring process is losing time. See BrightMove’s recruiting analytics.