What Is Reactive Hiring Actually Costing You?
Only 30% of engineers are actively looking. If your entire hiring motion depends on applicants, you're paying for it — every quarter. Run your numbers below.
Your Engineering Hiring Reality
Fully-loaded cost is salary plus employer taxes, benefits, tools, and management overhead. A multiplier of ×1.3 means every unit of base salary costs about 1.30 all-in — typical for European tech companies. Adjust if your finance team uses a different load factor.
Agency Spend
Roadmap Slip & Revenue at Risk
What one delayed critical role costs your roadmap or revenue each week it stays open — lost delivery capacity, deferred launches, or revenue you cannot ship without that hire. If unsure, estimate conservatively from a product or finance partner.
Proactive talent strategies typically recover €0 of this cost — by reducing time-to-fill by up to 40% and eliminating avoidable agency spend.
See how to recover this cost
Recberry's TA Efficiency Framework deploys a proactive, relationship-first hiring engine inside your org — fixed fee, no ongoing retainer, full knowledge transfer. Barush will review your numbers personally.
- Passive talent pipeline built in your name, not an agency's
- Reduce time-to-fill by 30–50% without extra headcount
- Fixed-fee engagement — you own the output, not a subscription
- 8–12 week deployment, Barush-led
Estimates are illustrative. Salary benchmarks vary by market and role seniority. Cost-of-vacancy formula: (fully-loaded daily cost × working days open). Source for 30%/70% active/passive split: LinkedIn Business Global Talent Trends Research Report.