Number of Talent Acquisition Employees

Personnel costs are the largest expense in the talent acquisition process. They take up roughly two-thirds of the average talent acquisition budget (with the remainder devoted to systems, outsourcing, and overhead). Accordingly, managing the number of talent acquisition employees is an important endeavor. 

This article describes a key measure that your organization can use to keep track of the number of employees carrying out your talent acquisition process. It also offers approaches for how to acquire talent using fewer employees.

Calculation and metric values are provided.