Vanity metrics, and the ones that decide budget
Channel performance
The standard layer, and genuinely useful for editorial decisions — what to post, where, and when.
Hiring outcomes
The layer most social tools cannot produce, because they do not know what happened after the click.
Where the numbers are firm and where they are not
Attribution in hiring is genuinely imperfect and we would rather say so than present a clean funnel. Someone sees a post in March, remembers the company in June, and applies through a job board — that application will be attributed to the job board. No tool solves this honestly.
What is firm is source-level outcome data: which channels the applications you received actually came from, and which of those channels converted to offers. That is recorded by recruitment as candidates move through stages, not estimated. Over enough hires it is the reliable basis for a sourcing budget.
What is directional is campaign-level influence. Useful for deciding what to do more of; not a number to defend in a board meeting as causation.
