During the last several years recruiting departments have awakened to a fact that effective management requires accurate and timely data. Organisations need to understand exactly where they are on a set of performance benchmarks at any critical juncture and understand what the business ramifications of those metrics are. But in a rush to come up with data, the early efforts of many hiring department's focused on Cost-per-Hire, a statistic that provides a skewed and inaccurate view of success. A hire made, however cheaply, isn't a good hire unless the individual is able to find success and grow in their new role and talent departments that base success on how inexpensively they can make job offers, may be getting exactly what they pay for.