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Most agencies don't track CV formatting time — but it's a 5-15% line item on recruiter capacity. This post quantifies the true cost across direct labor, opportunity cost, and capacity expansion, with sample calculations for boutique, mid-market, and enterprise agencies.
Planned outline
- Intro — quantified hook: a 10-recruiter agency formatting 50 CVs/recruiter/week
- The three cost layers — direct labor, opportunity cost, capacity expansion
- Sample calculations — Boutique 5-recruiter, Mid-market 25-recruiter, Enterprise 100-recruiter
- The opportunity cost layer — placements not made, conversion math, real revenue
- Why agencies underprice formatting cost — invisibility, no tracking, no benchmarks
- How to measure it in your agency — time-tracking experiment, surveys, post-purchase analytics
- Calculator — inputs (recruiters, CVs, mins, rate) → outputs (weekly, monthly, annual cost, ROI)
- What you could do with the reclaimed time — calls, BD, closes
- FAQ — 6 questions on typical times, rates, exec search, tracking, payback, tool cost
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