Has The 2023 Cost Of Recruitment Increased on Indeed? Indeed It Has!

Businesses in the UK are having a tough old time. Inflation met reduced consumer confidence, reduced demand, and increased energy and fuel bills. Business owners feel like they’re being battered time and time (and time) again with no end in sight. Essentially, the cost of recruitment is rising significantly.

The Impact of Inflation on Recruitment

Inflationary pressures have led to more movement within the job market, and if an employee leaves, it’s time to search for your next star hire.

It was nice in the face of such challenges to have a large company like Indeed on hand to help you recruit in a cost-effective way. Employers could sponsor a job listing for as little as £3.00 per day.

It seems, however, that indeed have faced their own challenges. In March 2023, Indeed announced 2,200 layoffs of its global workforce claiming that sponsored job volumes were down 33% year over year, and total job openings were down 3.5%.

In addition to redundancies, the company has moved smaller businesses from a PPC (pay-per-click) model to a PPSA (pay per started application) model. Previously, a job could cost a few hundred pounds to receive a large number of candidates. Now it costs thousands to sift, interview and build a new team.

In our tests, the average cost per application was offered at around £20.00 each.

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What to do then – and more importantly, why is a Marketing firm writing about this?

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It’s really beneficial having a large creative team at your disposal. As someone who found this article by searching about recruitment, you know that having that resource in-house is very expensive.

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