HR advisory, assessments, and operating tools for U.S. businesses
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Find out what each open position costs your business. Enter the salary, the value the role produces, and the days it has been open. The workbook calculates the net cost of each vacancy, the total across all open roles, and what you could save by hiring faster.
Try the free browser version first. The workbook adds the total cost across every open role and shows what a shorter time to fill could save.
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See the estimated cost to your business while each position remains open.
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What is inside
Taken from the kit’s own Start Here guide, so what you see here is what you open after checkout.
How to use it
An open position has a cost, even while you save on salary and benefits. For each vacancy, the workbook estimates the value the role would have produced, subtracts the pay and benefits saved, and adds any cost of covering the work. It calculates the net cost for each position, totals every open role, and estimates what faster hiring could save. Because the value you assign to a role is a judgment call, the result gives you a baseline for planning rather than a precise figure.
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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.
For help implementing this tool, book a one hour Setup Session for $149. For broader HR support, advisory begins with a short request and a written scope at truestephr.com/pages/advisory. For legal questions, consult qualified counsel.
Right after payment, your download link appears on the confirmation screen and again in your email receipt. All files arrive as one ZIP. No account is needed.
You can use Excel, LibreOffice on a computer, or Google Sheets in a browser. LibreOffice and Google Sheets are free alternatives. Any PDF reader opens the guides. See download help.
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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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