Recruiting sourcing contact workload calculator

Calculate initial contacts required and planned follow-up count with your own figures.

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Use initial contacts required and planned follow-up count to compare changes to your inputs. The method and limits below explain the scope.

Examples

Examples

Try the starting example

Target replies (count)
30
Assumed initial reply fraction (0–1)
0.2
Follow-ups per contact (count)
2
Minutes per initial contact
4
Minutes per follow-up
2
Initial contacts required
150
Planned follow-up count
300
Recruiter hours
20

Try another scenario

Target replies (count)
30
Assumed initial reply fraction (0–1)
0.3
Follow-ups per contact (count)
2
Minutes per initial contact
4
Minutes per follow-up
2
Initial contacts required
100
Planned follow-up count
200
Recruiter hours
13.333333
Calculation method

Calculation method

Initial contacts required

ceil(a/b)

Planned follow-up count

ceil(a/b)*c

Recruiter hours

ceil(a/b)*(d+c*e)/60

Symbols and units
a
Target replies (count)
b
Assumed initial reply fraction (0–1)
c
Follow-ups per contact (count)
d
Minutes per initial contact
e
Minutes per follow-up

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Assumptions & limits

Assumptions & limits

  • Reply fraction must be >0 and ≤1. Conservative workload sends all follow-ups even to responders; no forecast confidence implied. Supported limits: All numeric inputs must be finite. Only the explicitly described mathematical scenario is supported.
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