HRI Benchmarks:
What healthy looks like across mandate types.
A score means nothing without context. These are the Hiring Reliability Index™ benchmarks Majhi OS has established across VP and C-suite searches — the thresholds that separate recoverable from terminal.
Baseline Reality
Most mandates start healthy and degrade silently.
68% of VP searches stall past week 10. Not because the search was poorly designed. Because the degradation was invisible until it was too late to recover cleanly.
The average mandate enters Majhi OS at an HRI of 74. By week 6, without active monitoring, it typically drifts to 58. By week 10, it is at 41 — critical. The stall that looks sudden in a status report was a six-week gradual decline.
By Role Type
HRI benchmarks differ by mandate complexity.
VP-level searches and C-suite searches have different signal profiles. Benchmarks that work for a VP Sales search don’t apply to a CFO search. Majhi OS segments benchmarks by mandate type.
VP Sales (target: 72+)
High pipeline velocity required. Low shortlist approval tolerance. Reply rate decay hits faster because the candidate pool is more competitive. Week 8 is the critical intervention window.
VP Engineering (target: 68+)
Longer shortlist cycles are normal — technical assessment adds 5–7 days to stage transitions. HRI baseline is lower but variance is tighter. Recruiter load is the dominant risk signal.
CFO / C-Suite (target: 65+)
Candidate pool is smaller. Pipeline velocity is inherently slower. Close velocity is the highest-weight signal — board-level delays dominate failure patterns for these mandates.
VP Marketing (target: 70+)
Shortlist approval is the most volatile signal. Hiring manager brief quality predicts approval rate more strongly than candidate quality. Intake alignment is the first intervention.
Recovery Windows
When intervention still works.
HRI benchmarks define not just what healthy looks like — but when recovery is still possible. There is a recoverable window. Once a mandate exits it, the expected outcome shifts from ‘close with delay’ to ‘restart or replace’.
HRI 60–69 (Early)
Recovery rate: 91%. Any single targeted intervention — outreach pivot, sourcing channel change, intake re-alignment — restores trajectory within two weeks.
HRI 45–59 (Mid)
Recovery rate: 73%. Multi-signal intervention required. Typically involves recruiter strategy session plus hiring manager re-brief plus sourcing reset.
HRI below 45 (Late)
Recovery rate: 44%. At this point, mandate restart is often the faster path to close. Full recovery is possible but requires direct leadership engagement.
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