In Recruiting, How Important Is Cost Per Hire? October 7, 2015
In Recruiting, How Important Is
Cost Per Hire?
October 7, 2015
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About David Green: David is a Director / Vice-President at Cielo, and works with international organizations to design talent acquisition programs that drive growth and competitive advantage. David advises businesses on effective ways to leverage data and develop strategies that produce the best business outcome while also aligning with talent strategies and business priorities. He also blogs, speaks and chairs conferences within the talent and people analytics space.
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I believe cost per hire is a misguided means to judge recruiting department performance.
For one, it rewards the wrong things and ignores
quality of candidate and quality of hire.
For another, it’s for too tactical and narrowly focused. Worse, improving costs could degrade
quality.
Lou Adler
① Put Cost Per Hire (CPH) in context as part of an overall discussion on ROI
② Examine how the importance of CPH depends on the talent you need to hire
③ Highlight the components you should use to calculate CPH
④ Demonstrate how a low CPH can actually be more expensive in the long run
⑤ Look at the potential impact on the business
Agenda
What is ROI in recruiting?
Quality
Cost
Agility
Agility is the measurement of the speed at which the resourcing function’s strategy and activities are capable of responding to changes in business demands
True Cost of Hire is a complex calculation including team costs, operational cost of line management, marketing spend, and supplier costs
Quality drivers sit across a number of measures e.g. candidate & hiring manager experience, new hire attrition, new hire performance, source of hire, employer brand NPS, conversion rates
The Perfect Balance? Difficult to achieve, but then, it is not often the target. Business drivers inevitably lead to a weighted model with importance of Cost, Agility & Quality dependent on what talent you are hiring
Cost per hire varies by role
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Delivering quality hires consistently
… is perceived as the most important strategic function of talent acquisition for all stakeholders (C-Level, Business Unit Leaders and Talent Acquisition Leaders)
- Cielo, Talent Acquisition 360 Research
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Approach • Investment • Complexity • Time • Resources
Calculating cost per hire
Cost Per Hire = ( ) ∑(External Costs) + ∑(Internal Costs)
Total Number of Hires in a Time Period
① External Costs • Advertising & Marketing
• Background & Eligibility Checks
• Campus Recruiting
• Consulting Services
• Contingency to Regular Fees
• Drug Testing
• Employee Referral Awards / Payments
• Immigration Expenses
• Job Fairs / Recruiting Events
• Pre-Hire Health Screens
• Pre-Screening
• RPO Fees
• Relocation Fees
• Sign-On Bonuses
• Sourcing Costs
• Travel & Expenses – Candidate
• Travel & Expenses – Recruiter
• Technology
• Third-Party Agency Fees
② Internal Costs • Cost of Recruiting Staff
• Cost of Sourcing Staff
• Internal Overheads
• Non-Labor Office Costs
• Recruiting L&D
• Secondary Management – Cost of Time for
Events
• Secondary Management – Cost of Time for
Recruiting
③ # Hires Total number of hires in a time period
• New hires
• Backfill due to
attrition
What are the characteristics of an optimized recruiting function?
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New-
Hire
Turn
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Time t
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(in D
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16%
14%
12%
10%
8%
6%
4%
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17%
10%
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Cost per Hire $3,258
Cost per Hire $6,465
Level 1 – Reactive Tactical Recruiting
Level 4 – Optimized Talent Acquisition
Mature recruiting organizations spend more by hire But, maturity brings better quality of hire and increased agility
What is the potential cost impact?
Source: Bersin by Deloitte, 2014.
• 2x Spend per hire, equates to: • 40% Less New-Hire Attrition • 20% Faster Time to Fill
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Let’s take a look at 2 similar companies
Example
Meet Smart Inc. and Dumb Inc.
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Smart Inc.
“Optimized” Talent Acquisition function o Average CPH = $6,465 o Average new hire attrition =
10% o Average Time to Fill – 44 days
“Reactive and Tactical” recruiting function o Average CPH = $3,258 o Average new hire attrition =
17% o Average Time to Fill – 55 days
…now let’s compare based on cost, quality & agility measures
SMART q $1Bn Turnover q 10,000 employees q 1,000 annual hires q Avg compensation = $50k
DUMB q $1Bn Turnover q 10,000 employees q 1,000 annual hires q Avg compensation = $50k
DUMB
Who has the higher cost per hire?
Quality
Agility
Cost
Smart Inc. spends 2x more on hiring than Dumb Inc…
1,000 1,000 $6,465 $3,258
$6,465,000 $3,258,000 +$3,207,000 -$3,207,000
Cost Per Hire Number of hires per annum
Average Cost Per Hire
Total Annual Cost Per Hire
Difference – Smart Inc. vs Dummy Inc.
NB: Average Cost Per Hire figures taken from Bersin by Deloitte
SMART DUMB
What impact does this extra investment have on quality?
Who has better quality hires?
Cost
Agility
Quality
Low quality hires can significantly impact the business
First year turnover is a good indicator of quality of hire…
Source: Telegraph.co.uk reporting on 2014 Oxford Economics Study Source: PwC Saratoga
Avg cost of replacing a departing employee is
$48,982
Avg cost of turnover for new hires is
1 to 1.5x the annual pay of the departing employee
What impact does this have on our example?
… turnover is expensive
40% less new hire turnover equates to $4.4M
1,000 1,000 10% 17%
$6,250,000 $10,625,000 -$4,375,000 +$4,375,000
Cost of First-Year Attrition Number of hires per annum
First-Year Attrition Rate
Total Annual Cost of Y1 Attrition
Difference – Smart Inc. vs Dummy Inc.
NB: First-Year attrition figures taken from Bersin by Deloitte
100 170 $50,000 $50,000
Number of Y1 leavers
Average Annual Salary
1.25 1.25 Cost of attrition – salary multiplier
SMART DUMB
What is the impact of agility as measured by time to fill?
Who has better quality hires?
Cost
Quality
Agility
AGILITY
20% faster time to fill equates to $2.5M SMART DUMB
$1Bn $1Bn 10,000 10,000
44 days 55 days $20,000,000 $25,000,000
Lost Opportunity – Time to Fill) Total Annual Revenue
Number of employees
Average Time-to-Fill
Lost Gross Opportunity Revenue
NB: Average Time-to-Fill figures taken from Bersin by Deloitte
$100,000 $100,000 $455 $455
Average annual revenue per employee
Average revenue per employee day (220 days)
1,000 1,000 Number of annual hires
$227 $227 $10,000,000 $12,500,000
Average cost per employee day (220 days)
Total salary saved for Open roles
$50,000 $50,000 Average annual salary
$10,000,000 $12,500,000 -$2,500,000 +$2,500,000
Lost Net Opportunity Revenue
Difference – Smart Inc. vs Dummy Inc.
So, is it smart by name & smart by nature?
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Cost
Quality
Agility
+$3,207,000 -$3,207,000
-$4,375,000 +$4,375,000 -$2,500,000 +$2,500,000
-$3,668,000 +$3,668,000
The Results Difference in Cost Per Hire
Difference – First-Year Attrition
Difference – Lost Opportunity/Time to Fill
Total Difference – Smart Inc. vs Dummy Inc.
SMART DUMB
Despite spending 2x more on its recruiting program, the actual cost to Smart, Inc. is $3.7M less per annum than Dumb, Inc.
$3.7M
Excelling at recruiting leads to positive business outcomes…
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Delivering on recruiting
Onboarding of new hires and retention
Managing talent
Improving employer branding
Performance management and rewards
Developing leadership
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2.5x 1.9x
2.2x 2.1x
2.4x 1.8x
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Revenue growth Profit margin
The impact that the most capable
companies achieve over the least capable
companies
Topic in which most capable and least
capable companies were compared
① A balanced recruiting strategy is an optimized blend of Cost, Agility and Quality – the balance varies depending on the talent you are hiring
② If you are going to measure cost per hire, make sure you include all the relevant external and internal components
③ Investing more on recruiting can improve quality of hire, increase agility and consequently be less costly in the long run
④ Excelling at recruiting can have a significant and positive impact on business performance
⑤ Within HR, recruiting is arguably the function that can provide the best return on your investment
Key take-aways
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
Peter Drucker
David Green Vice President
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