Best recruitment tools
- Cost per hire
- $2,800
- Internal cost (the hours)
- $5,400
- External cost (ads and agency)
- $11,400
The numbers on this page come from the inputs you enter and the method stated: 3,600 seconds to an hour, 52 weeks to a year, twelve months to a year, and nothing else. No industry shrinkage figure, no occupancy benchmark and no assumption about your attrition; every one of those is yours to enter.
A small hiring desk needs fewer tools than the category suggests, and they pay for themselves in a fairly reliable order. First, a record: applicants against reqs with a source, a date, a stage and an outcome, because every figure and every later decision depends on it. Second, scheduling that the candidate can self-serve, because interview booking is where a process without a dedicated recruiter stalls and it is where most of the 26 pre-offer days on the worked example accumulate. Third, acknowledgement and rejection that send themselves, which are pure administration and improve the candidate experience at no cost. Fourth, and only if you advertise widely, something that posts to several places at once. Everything after that is refinement. This page sets out the four, what each is worth, and how to price them against your own hours rather than against a feature list.
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Price the tools against your own hours
On the worked example a desk spends 120 hours across six hires at $45, which is $5,400 of internal cost. Any tool has to be worth a share of that. The cost per hire sheet on this site gives you your own version of the figure in a few minutes.
Buy in order of the days they remove
Scheduling first for most desks, because it attacks the longest wait. Acknowledgement next, because it is cheap and it changes what candidates think of you. Multi-posting last, and only if you genuinely advertise in several places at once.
Resist the tools that measure instead of doing
Dashboards are satisfying and they do not remove any hours. The measurement you need is four figures, they are free on this site, and they take minutes; the tools worth paying for are the ones that do work rather than report on it.
Will it do what you need for Best recruitment tools?
Tell us how your team plans its staffing today and where the number gets argued; a person who has built one answers.
Best recruitment tools: common questions
What is the single most useful tool? The record, without much competition. It is the least exciting and everything else depends on it, including any ability to tell whether the other tools worked.
Do I need a job board subscription? It depends entirely on whether your applicants come from boards, which your own source data will answer within a quarter. Guessing at it is how advertising budgets get spent twice.
Is free tooling good enough to start? Often yes. Every sheet on this site is free with no account, and for a desk hiring a handful of times a year they may be the whole of what you need.
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Keeping what you make
The worksheet answered today's question. Pro keeps the answer: the plan you just worked saved against the team it belongs to, re-opened at the next review instead of rebuilt, branded and exported for the budget meeting.
- Download the finished checklist or intake form as a file the client accepts
- The paperwork goes out clean, without the Kickoffo watermark
- Re-use the checklist for the next client instead of rebuilding it
- Your firm's logo on every checklist and form you send
- Export every client's onboarding at once when the account review or the buyer asks
- Send the plan for review from the record, not a spreadsheet
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