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The Recruiting ROI Calculator

Calculate the return on investment of your recruiting marketing and ad spend - and see how your current cost per hire compares to what recruiting marketing actually costs.

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Calculate the return on investment of your recruiting marketing spend — and see how your current cost per hire compares to what recruiting marketing actually costs.

Your Key Metrics
Monthly Recruiting Budget €3,000
Cost per Click (CPC) €2.50
Avg. CPC in Google Ads, job boards, social ads
Application Rate (Career Page) 3.0 %
% of visitors who submit an application
Qualification Rate 40 %
% of applicants meeting minimum requirements
Hire Rate 25 %
% of qualified candidates who receive and accept an offer
Current Cost per Hire €4,500
e.g. headhunter fee: 2–3 gross monthly salaries
Current Hires per Month 3
For realistic savings at your actual hiring volume
Optional — Your Current Starting Point
Leave blank if unknown — the results are complete without these.
Talent Pool
Candidates in database / pipeline
Talent Audience
Career page visitors (retargetable)
Your Results (Monthly)
Career Page Visitors
Applications
Hires
ROI Recruiting Marketing
Your Cost per Hire
vs. currently
Savings per Hire
vs. current method
Savings at Your Volume
at hires/mo. · p.a.
Annual Hires
at same budget · currently /yr.
Talent Pool Growth
qualified candidates / month
Talent Audience Growth
new career page visitors / mo.
⚠️ These values result in less than 1 hire per month. Check your budget, CPC, or conversion rates.

The Foresight behind Recruiting Campaign RoI

A vacant critical role is not an HR metric; it is a compounding financial liability. Traditional recruiting models measure the cost of hiring. System dynamics measures the cost of failing to hire.

Sovereignty: Own your Talent Pool

When you review and interview a pre-selected set of candidates, you make one hire. But you don't have a pool of candidates. This can be a favourable by-product of your recruiting campaign: A growing talent pool which you can engage when workforce demand increases. 

Resource Allocation: Compare Channels

Compare the long-term ROI of building your proprietary Recruiting Engine, audience and candidate pool against the recurring capital expenditure of platform subscriptions and recruiting fees. What makes sense when?

Data Insights: Performance & Candidate Experience

A key advantage of digital recruitment marketing are data insights. Not only is the performance transparent: who clicks on which job posts, emails and social media content? Data-driven optimisation helps you building better candidate experiences - your ultimate competitive advantage in the competition for top talents and professionals. 

These tools are based on advanced models, proprietary B2B data intelligence insights. Architected by Thomas Wittig and the WITTIGONIA growth engineering team.

This tool can support you and your team a starting point for your recruiting strategy update and process optimization. 

Recruiting Marketing RoI Calculator by WITTIGONIA. Estimate and compare the return on investment of your talent acquisition campaigns. Showing the calculator web application interface with sample results.

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