HR OKR Examples

Below you will find Human Resources (HR) OKR examples from real companies that can help you formulate your own HR OKRs.

Why your HR team should use OKRs

OKR (Objectives & Key Results) is an agile goal-setting framework to drive transparency, alignment, and focus around your goals and strategy. High-growth companies like LinkedIn, Netflix, Slack, and Spotify or big corporations such as Samsung or Daimler all use OKRs to focus on the things that really matter and align everyone around a common purpose.

HR teams frequently face the challenge that there are too many projects that could be tackled at any given time. OKRs help to keep focus and concentrate on the initiatives that are most important.

Finally, besides Marketing and other data-driven departments, HR is particularly suited for OKRs because many goals in Sales teams are associated with metrics. Hence, the formulation of Key Results is easier than in other teams, such as product management.

The benefits of OKRs can only be unleashed if you follow some rules.

Writing good HR OKRs

“How to write good HR OKRs?” – the million-dollar question.

Coming up with good HR OKRs can be quite a challenge. While the OKR method itself is easy to understand, it is the writing part that is the hardest and also the most critical to master.

To get the creative juices flowing, think about this formula when writing your HR OKRs:

Keep in mind that Objectives answer the question “What do I want to achieve?” while Key Results answer the question “How do I know that the goal is achieved?”. Objectives should therefore be qualitative, easy to understand, and inspiring. Key Results should be clearly measurable, outcome-driven (not output-driven), and S.M.A.R.T. Both, Objectives and Key Results, need to be time-bound and are typically set per quarter, i.e. for one “OKR cycle”.

HR OKRs: Examples and best practices

When our customers get started with Mooncamp, they often ask us “What are good OKR examples for HR?”, so we compiled a list of real Sales OKR examples just for you.

Recruiting & Talent Acquisition OKR Examples

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Objective

Improve candidate experience at [your company] for hiring great talent

Key Results

Reduce average candidate timeline between application and offer to 35 days

90% of hiring managers submit their feedback within 24 hours of the interview

Reduce mean time from application to first interview to 7 days

Increase applicant SAT score to 8/10

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Objective

Maximize our recruiting engine efficiency

Key Results

Increase Offer Acceptance Rate to 90%

Decrease Time to Offer Accept to 45 days or less

Increase hires vs. planned hires ratio to 0.9 or more

HR Manager OKR Examples

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Objective

Significantly improve our benefit program while staying within budget

Key Results

Evaluate benefit programs of 5 similar local companies, select and finalize contract with new vendor with best fit

Ensure >90% participation in benefit program

Maintain benefits budget below $900 per team member per year

People Operations OKR Examples

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Objective

Deliver a revised and improved PTO Policy

Key Results

Hire an assistant to service employee administrative needs

Evaluate 5 solutions for leave tracking and select the best one for the team

Achieve 95% satisfaction rate of the new system

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Objective

Achieve OKR adoption in all teams

Key Results

100% of employees scheduled for OKRs training workshops.

Achieve at least 75% completion rate for the first OKRs cycle

Achieve an 95% approval rating on employee survey on OKR effectiveness

Employee Satisfaction OKR Examples

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Objective

New team members have a great onboarding experience

Key Results

Increase onboarding SAT score to 8/10

100% of new team members have their desk set up with welcome gifts on the first day

100% of new team members meet their manager and direct peers on the first day

90% of new team members complete their onboarding tasks in the first 5 business days

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Objective

Increase employee engagement

Key Results

Increase eNPS to 60

Increase employee engagement survey score to 75/100

Absenteeism reduced by 25%

Voluntary team member turnover (rolling 12 months) reduced to 8%

Achieve participation rate of 85% or higher

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Objective

Hold an amazing 5th anniversary event

Key Results

Achieve >90% attendance of the event

Achieve >50 NPS of the event

Involve at least one representative of each department for team building & organizational preparation activities for the event

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging OKR Examples

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Objective

Hire a Diverse, High Performing Team

Key Results

Women make up at least 40% of all team members

Women make up at least 35% of all people managers

New hires spend 30 hours on training in the first two weeks

Increase share of team members who belong to an ethnic minority to 35%

Learning & Development OKR Examples

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Objective

Enable professional growth for everyone

Key Results

Mentorship/coaching program is rolled out to 80% of employees

New internship development course is completed by all new incoming interns

100% of Learning & Development team trained to effectively handle team member questions

How Mooncamp can help your HR team with OKRs

By using a purpose-built OKR software like Mooncamp, you can bring your HR team’s OKR strategy to the next level. To name just some benefits of a dedicated OKR software:

• Transparency and alignment through visualization of goals across your HR team or the entire organization
• Collaborate better, give feedback for OKRs, and praise your co-workers all in one place
• It’s more fun to use than a Spreadsheet or clunky tools like Confluence and will lead to a higher adoption of your teams
• Regularly nudge your team members to update their OKRs in order to make the method stick
• Uncover insights in your OKR progress or OKR process with reports and dashboards

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