3 Cost Per Hire Conversations to Have With Busy Leaders

When the pace of hiring begins to slow down, many leaders look to recruiting as an obvious place to cut costs. However, recruiters and other HR professionals know that it can be detrimental to remove resources from recruiting without an eye to strategy and an organization’s business priorities. Especially during times of cost cutting, HR’s role is to make sure that business leaders have all of the information needed to efficiently make informed and effective decisions. 

In this article, we review cost per hire, which is one of the most common recruiting measures and a frequent presence on leader dashboards. After unpacking the complexity of this measure, we provide guidance that you can use to help business leaders think about cost per hire in a nuanced way that benefits the entire organization.

This article was first published in partnership with Human Resource Executive. 

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