HR scenario: Analyze hiring practices

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KPIs impacted

Cost per hire

Value benefit

Cost savings

Employee experience

Using Copilot to analyze hiring practices


1. Connect data sources

Compare the new and old policy documents and make a table of the key policy differences. Have Copilot translate the results into local language.​

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Use Copilot to rapidly locate relevant data which indicates and impacts the hiring pipeline.

2. Analyze data

Analyze data, summarize findings, and provide candidate insights, pipeline, capacity, and hire quality.

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Copilot in Excel

Analyze data, summarize findings, and provide candidate insights, pipeline, capacity, and hire quality.

3. Generate reports

Create reporting and visualizations to better understand the hiring pipeline and make data-driven decisions.

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Copilot in Word

To better articulate the data, highlight the cells yellow where “Time to hire” exceeds 60 days.

4. Collaborate with team

Schedule a meeting to present the report, insights, and to gain feedback.

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Copilot in Teams

“Generate meeting notes” after the call to capture key topics and action items.

5. Track progress

Track the progress of the hiring pipeline.

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Copilot in Excel

In addition to “What is the average of ‘Time to hire’?”, monitor “What is the average ‘Candidate Satisfaction’?” to compare the impact of hiring process changes.

6. Improve hiring pipeline reviews

Based on the impact of the actions, adjust approach and continue to iterate.

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Copilot in Loop

Brainstorm ideas to improve the hiring pipelines process and ask colleagues to contribute and provide feedback in Loop.

1Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com or the Microsoft Copilot mobile app and set toggle to “Web”
2Access Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot mobile app, or the Copilot app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”