Counselor Match Survival Velocity
RCTReview
Public employment agency recommendations are often criticized for taking too long to yield viable candidates, causing employers to abandon public intermediation channels in favor of costly private recruitment options.
Picture this
Imagine an emergency medical responder arriving at a scene in two minutes compared to an ambulance arriving an hour later. The speed of the initial qualified response determines whether the patient is successfully stabilized before secondary complications arise.
What the evidence says
Counselor match survival curves for treatment vacancies diverged from control vacancies on Day 1 (p = 0.016 log-rank test), proving that dedicated counselor pre-screening significantly accelerates successful candidate match velocity.
- Who was studied
- N = 1,705 permanent contract vacancies posted with the French Public Employment Service during the RCT sanctuary period.
- How
- Non-parametric Kaplan-Meier vacancy survival functions censored at 8 weeks post-posting, evaluated using inverse propensity weighted (IPW) Cox proportional hazard tests.
What to do
Assign dedicated recruitment counselors to newly opened vacancies within 24 hours of posting to maximize initial match velocity and candidate placement success.
From the source
"We see that treatment and control survival rates diverge in the very first day of vacancy creation with the difference continuing to diverge over the observation period. We can formally reject the null of equality of the survival functions using a Cox regression based test with a p-value of 0.02."
Are_Active_Labor_Market_Policies_Directed_at_Firms_Effective_Evidence.pdf