Graduate Recruitment Effort Calculator

Get a clearer picture of where time goes in your graduate recruitment. This helps you understand current effort and spot opportunities.

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Volume & Scale

An estimate is fine. Select the range that best reflects a typical year.

Include graduates and interns hired through your main program.

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Process Effort

Include resume screening, transcripts/visa review, video review, testing, coordination and shortlisting. Exclude automated filtering.

Include shortlisting review, interviews, assessment centres and decision discussions.

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Process Friction Indicators

For example, too many weaker candidates made it through the assessments, or initial screening was too lenient.

This indicates misalignment between recruiters and hiring managers on candidate quality or role requirements.

How significant is candidate drop-off during the process? Drop-off before assessments or completion can increase effort and potentially impact quality.

Your Effort Analysis

Based on your inputs, here's what your graduate recruitment process requires

Recruiter Effort
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Hiring Manager Effort
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Confidence Check

Based on your inputs:

Efficiency Opportunities

Calculate Your Potential Savings

Adjust the sliders to explore how process improvements could reduce effort and cost.

Improved alignment with hiring managers, clearer criteria, better tools

Streamlined process, better communication, mobile-friendly experience

Better screening tools, automated workflows, improved data capture

Potential Annual Savings
Recruiter Time
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Hiring Manager Time
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This time could be redirected to higher-value activities like deepening candidate relationships, strengthening employer brand, or strategic hiring initiatives.

These are potential savings based on your improvement assumptions. Actual results depend on implementation and organizational context.

Show current effort as indicative cost
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Based on indicative salary assumptions (Recruiter: $78/hour, Hiring Manager: $144/hour). This is not a budget or savings forecast—just a way to contextualise effort.
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