Klarinet Archive - Posting 001303.txt from 1998/04

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.net>
Subj: recruiting budgets
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:28:25 -0400

>> Those businesses that I know of SPEND the money they budget for recruiting.
>> That's why they have a budgeting process--to determine how much they plan
>> to spend and how much they plan to make. If they spend less in one year,
>> they may budget less in the following year. But the numbers I gave were
>> industry wide averages. So the year to year fluctuations are not relevant.
>
>The businesses that I work for never spend money needlessly. They are
>constantly
>reviewing the budget. They don't keep recruiting after filling the open
>positions. Last year they REALLOCATED part of the recruiting budget to
>upgrade
>test lab facilities. Part of our engineering prototype budget was
>REALLOCATED to
>upgrade computers throughout the facility when engineering determined that the
>prototype needs were less than originally expected. We did not waste money
>building unneeded prototypes or interviewing extra candidates just because
>we had
>it.
>
>
>Dee Hays
>Canton, SD

What happened last year (or this year) is irrelevant as a single number.
The question is what has your average recruiting budget been for, say the
last 10 years? And was has been the average recruiting budget across your
industry?

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Jonathan Cohler
cohler@-----.net

   
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