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Have you ever wondered how much it costs to recruit a new programmer? The numbers may surprise you.
The most common cost of recruiting a developer which comes to mind is a recruitment agency fee, but it’s just a starter. In the IT world, where there is a talent shortage, hiring a new programmer (or any tech talent) increases in cost and effort as time goes on. The better a programmer is, the more expensive it gets. The best ones are like superstars with their own agents. Employee turnover is a huge problem for most companies and long-time employment is almost unreal. According to the 2015 Recruiter Survey, the average employee tenure is below 6 years; 30% of people change their job in 1-3 years and 29% in 4-6 years. Quarsh’s research gives even more dreadful numbers – 20% of new hires leave in 12 months!
Even with low turn-over you need to be prepared for recruitment costs. These studies show that 79% of the workforce keep their resumes up-to-date and 63% have updated their LinkedIn profile just in case. Are you sure your employees won’t quit on you?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Francis on Saturday December 31 2016, @07:05PM
It's because the executives usually set an example that encourages HR workers to be as petty and lazy as possible. There are places with good HR workers out there, but most of them are more concerned with being as stingy as possible with benefits and doing as little work as possible.
In most cases, the applications won't even be seen by a human being until they've already thrown out most of them. To be fair to them, if it's a decent job, there's going to be a lot of applicants. I know of some rather shitty jobs paying basically minimum wage where there were literally dozens of applicants for every opening.
Retention is something that employers really need to consider as the only way that a lot of folks get raises is by changing jobs or at least threatening to do so as employers seem to think that they can get away with lowballing the labor without consequences.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @11:10AM
Wow, Francis! That is really profound! It is like, almost, you were a HR person yourself, or something! How else could you say so much about so little? Pro tip, next time, don't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 05 2017, @05:44AM
LOL, I see that Aristarchus is butthurt again.
Pro-tip, try actually reading and then you might actually comprehend.
Ah well, off to fuck your mother.