HR advisory, assessments, and operating tools for U.S. businesses
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See whether hiring an in-house recruiter makes financial sense for your hiring plan. Enter the recruiter’s loaded cost and capacity, the roles you hire by group, and the agency rate for each. The workbook calculates the all-agency cost, the in-house scenario, and the annual savings from building in-house at your volume.
Try the free browser version first. The workbook compares agency and in-house costs by role group, accounts for hires beyond recruiter capacity and multiple recruiters, and shows savings over three years.
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See how many hires it takes for an in-house recruiter to become the lower-cost option.
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What is inside
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How to use it
See how the cost of an in-house recruiter compares with agency fees at your hiring volume. Enter recruiter cost and capacity, then list your hiring roles and their agency fees. The workbook builds an all-agency scenario and an in-house scenario. For hires above your recruiters’ capacity, the in-house scenario uses the blended agency rate. The Summary shows annual savings, the break-even point, cost per hire for each approach, and savings over several years.
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You receive 4 PDF guides and 1 Excel workbook, all named in the What is inside section above. This is a one time purchase, delivered as a download, not a subscription.
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Yes. You can fill in the Excel workbook for your own internal operations and read or print the PDF guides.
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No. It is general HR information and a working method. It is not written to any one state unless the page says so. Where a decision turns on the law, use qualified counsel. See what we cover, and what we do not.
One license covers the internal HR work of one legal entity. You may edit the files, brand them, and issue them to your employees. Consultants and groups with several entities need the extended license. See the license.
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