---
id: hiring-pulse-analysis
name: Hiring Pulse Analysis
description: Read the recent rhythm of hiring — applications arriving, and how the funnel is converting.
category: hiring
pages:
  - control-center
  - analytics
status: active
version: 1
triggers:
  - hiring pulse
  - hiring velocity
  - hiring rhythm
  - application rate
owliver:
  enabled: true
  suggestions:
    - label: What is the hiring pulse?
      capability: summary
    - label: Applications over recent periods
      capability: flow
  capabilities:
    - summary
    - flow
    - stats
    - insight
  responses:
    summary:
      title: Hiring pulse
      source: candidates.activity
      periods:
        - today
        - last-7-days
        - previous-month
    flow:
      title: Applications over time
      source: candidates.activity
      periods:
        - today
        - last-7-days
        - this-month
        - previous-month
    stats:
      title: Hiring performance
      source: hires.performance
    insight:
      title: Hiring performance
      source: hires.performance
---

# Hiring Pulse Analysis

## Purpose

- Report the recent rhythm of hiring: how many applications are arriving, and
  how the funnel is converting them.
- Distinguish a quiet week from a broken pipeline.

## Capabilities

- Count applications arriving across recent periods.
- Report conversion, speed and quality of hire.

## Data

Reads `candidates.activity` for arrival counts over periods, and
`hires.performance` for conversion, time-to-hire and quality.

## Analysis

Arrival counts are reported per period rather than as a single rate, because a
rate averages away the shape — thirty applications in a month is a different
situation depending on whether they arrived steadily or all on one day.

## Output

Applications per period, and headline conversion, speed and quality figures.

## Limitations

- **This is the analysis definition only.** The Hiring Pulse card that appears
  on Krow pages is a separate UI configuration with its own placement and
  period settings; the two are deliberately not the same definition and changing
  one does not change the other.
- Arrival counts are by application creation date, not by when a role opened.
- A period with no applications reports zero, which is a real reading — it does
  not distinguish "nobody applied" from "the role was not advertised".