2 OKR examples for Hiring
Formulating strong OKRs can be a complex endeavor, particularly for first-timers. Prioritizing outcomes over projects is crucial when developing your plans.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Hiring to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.
Best practices for OKR
Your objectives should be ambitious, but achievable. Your key results should be measurable and time-bound. It can also be helfpul to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Building your own OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives – including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
How to track OKRs
Quarterly OKRs should have weekly updates to get all the benefits from the framework.
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, once you get comfortable you can graduate to a proper OKRs-tracking tool.
We recommend Tability for an easy way to set and track OKRs with your team.
Check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Hiring OKRs templates
The examples have Hiring Objectives and Key Results, but they may also include the tasks that can help you get there.
OKRs to scale the team by hiring and onboarding key talent to support business expansion
- Expand the business by scaling the team with quality personnel
- Hire and onboard 3 experienced sales executives
- Enhance team diversity by 20% via targeted recruitment strategy
- Reduce time-to-fill open positions by 50% through process improvement
- Recruit and integrate 2 seasoned marketing specialists
OKRs to build an efficient hiring pipeline
- Improve the employee onboarding process
- Reduce the average lead to hire period from 40 to 25 days
- 30 interviews with recent hires to gather feedback on the onboarding
- 90% of offers are accepted
More OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
OKRs to improve stakeholder engagement and communication plan to enhance project success OKRs to develop robust metrics for social media content assessment OKRs to implement MLOps system to enhance data science productivity and effectiveness OKRs to improve website security through effective deployment of content security policy OKRs to accelerate service transformation through innovation and benchmarking OKRs to expand BDR prospecting efforts into new target markets or industry segments
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples