4 customisable OKR examples for Hiring Managers
What are Hiring Managers OKRs?
The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.
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 Managers 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 our OKR guide online.
Building your own Hiring Managers OKRs with AI
While we have some examples available, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. You can use our free AI generator below or our more complete goal-setting system to generate your own OKRs.
Our customisable Hiring Managers OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Hiring Managers Objectives and Key Results. We've included strategic initiatives in our templates to give you a better idea of the different between the key results (how we measure progress), and the initiatives (what we do to achieve the results).
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to foster an inclusive, equitable, and diverse office culture
Foster an inclusive, equitable, and diverse office culture
Achieve 20% improvement in diversity and inclusion survey results
Create a diversity and inclusion team
Revise hiring practices to prioritize diversity
Implement diversity and inclusion training for all staff
Implement diversity training to 100% of team members
Identify suitable diversity training programs or providers
Confirm and record each team member's training completion
Schedule mandatory training sessions for all team members
Increase minority hiring by 25%
Offer diversity and inclusion training for hiring managers
Implement inclusive hiring practices in the recruitment process
Establish partnerships with minority-focused professional organizations
2. OKRs to establish a go-to platform for leadership and niche hiring
Establish a go-to platform for leadership and niche hiring
Attract and onboard 1000 unique leadership profiles to the platform
Implement referral incentives for current users
Develop marketing campaigns targeting potential leadership profile candidates
Craft an engaging, user-friendly onboarding process
Secure partnerships with 50 leading companies in relevant industries
Reach out and negotiate partnerships with targeted companies
Develop proposals outlining mutual benefits for potential partners
Research and identify 50 prospective industry leaders for partnerships
Achieve a 20% conversion rate in hiring through the platform
Enhance job description clarity to attract right candidates
Implement comprehensive onboarding to increase acceptance rate
Improve screening processes for more qualified candidate selection
3. OKRs to streamline onboarding, supply management, and meeting organization
Streamline onboarding, supply management, and meeting organization
Implement a structured onboarding process for 90% of new hires
Develop comprehensive onboarding guide for new hires
Train managers on effective onboarding techniques
Measure onboarding effectiveness regularly
Increase meeting efficiency by setting concise agendas for 80% of meetings
Ensure frequent agenda adherence checks during meetings
Draft detailed agendas before each meeting
Apply strict time limitations to each agenda item
Reduce supply waste by 15% through a comprehensive inventory system
Regularly analyze inventory data for wastage patterns
Train staff on effective supply management and minimization
Implement a reliable automated inventory tracking system
4. OKRs to promote cultural humility for diverse, healthy team building
Promote cultural humility for diverse, healthy team building
Increase overall diversity rate in new hires by 25%
Collaborate with diverse professional and student organizations
Implement a diversity-focused recruitment strategy
Provide unconscious bias training to hiring managers
Achieve 90% positive feedback on diversity and inclusion efforts from employee surveys
Develop and promote a workplace inclusion policy
Implement diversity and inclusion training for all staff members
Regularly solicit employee feedback on inclusion efforts
Implement a cultural humility workshop for 80% of team leaders
Schedule workshop for 80% of team leaders
Ensure effective post-workshop follow-up activities
Identify suitable cultural humility workshop providers
Hiring Managers OKR best practices to boost success
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
![Tability Insights Dashboard](https://tability-templates-v2.vercel.app/_next/static/media/tability-insights-board.e70f9466.png)
Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
![Tability Insights Dashboard](https://tability-templates-v2.vercel.app/_next/static/media/checkins-graph.b2aec458.png)
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
How to turn your Hiring Managers OKRs in a strategy map
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
We recommend using a spreadsheet for your first OKRs cycle. You'll need to get familiar with the scoring and tracking first. Then, you can scale your OKRs process by using a proper OKR-tracking tool for it.
![A strategy map in Tability](https://tability-templates-v2.vercel.app/_next/static/media/tability_strategy_map.2ad25843.png)
If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
More Hiring Managers OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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OKRs to establish comprehensive food safety training across the company
OKRs to develop streamlined reports and dashboard to reduce necessary staffing
OKRs to establish comprehensive voice of customer reports
OKRs to generate significant growth through Content Marketing
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples
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