Or: How 15 Years in Recruitment Taught Us That You're All Paying for the Same Problem Twice The Math That Doesn't Add Up You just paid a recruiter €45,000 to hire a €150,000-per-year senior woman. That's 30% of her annual salary, which is a standard agency fee in the industry . The placement was smooth. The candidate started well. Everyone celebrated the new addition to the team. Twelve months later, she leaves for a competitor. Your finance team calculates the cost: recruit

Let’s play a game.   In this game, you are presented with 2 candidates and need to guess who of these two candidates just got promoted....