Comments on: What’s Cost Per Hire? Proposed Standard Answers That

By: Determining Cost Per Hire | Peoplelink Staffing | Peoplelink Staffing Blog

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:54:06 +0000

[...] this year, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) discussed an attempt to standardize the process of determining cost per hire. The process is oft-debated and bantered, but there are some basics you should consider when [...]

By: Second Round Review Could Be Last For Cost Per Hire Standard - ERE.net

Second Round Review Could Be Last For Cost Per Hire Standard - ERE.net — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:15:36 +0000

[...] for all practitioners to review is a second draft of a proposed standard for cost per hire. An initial version was posted earlier this year. After getting some 50 comments, the SHRM committee that drafted the standard adopted some of the [...]

By: Gerry Crispin

Gerry Crispin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:05:59 +0000

You are absolutely right Maureen. Except, IMHO, we have met the enemy ‘they’ is ‘us’(as one of my favorite philosophers, Pogo, once said.

Still, nowhere in the 43 page document will you find s summary number. Sorry. What you will find is an opportunity to contribute to the body of knowledge of our function… albeit a very small step forward.

You can participate or sit on the sidelines. I’m fine with either.

However, you are a great individual contributor. This request requires caring about the effort that a surprising number of your colleagues (colleagues you know) have put into something they they care about, so it is unlike you to dismiss or disrespect them even if it isn’t your thing

Once you realize that, perhaps you’ll take a few minutes to scan the content and comment at the site or, if CPH is really of so little interest to you personally, maybe just encouraging others in your network.

This is not about ‘a standard number’ but it is all about ‘agreement’ on a definition. Its actually why folks in staffing fail to move ahead as a profession- a lack of agreement about what are generally accepted practices.

By: Maureen Sharib

Maureen Sharib — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:11:16 +0000

Somebody, please, spare me the pain.
Is there a number encapsulated in that 43 page doc or are they looking for data from the community to create one?

That day they’re talking about (when HR executives stand with the CFO, the CEO, and others in the C-suite) will come when HR and staffing get out of their own myopic ways and understand that everything, EVERTHING has to do with recruiting and when they can bring a value consciousness to the table that connects the dots in the organization by delivering competitive intelligence to the sentient being.

Only then.

Until then we’re kidding ourselves.