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Enterprise decision models · People and talent · Model 39
Recruiting funnel and time-to-fill model
Days to fill by role, by source and by stage, held against the headcount plan the business committed to. A seat open for ninety days was budgeted as filled for all ninety.
Prepared for review · 27 August 2026 · Multi-community home builder · VP HR
Demonstration build · Illustrative data
Reference scale, grade Derived. Not a forecast for your business. This figure describes what a decision of this shape has been worth at this scale of operation, drawn from the evidence named in section 02. No payback, return or year-one figure appears in this brief — no fee has been quoted, so those numbers cannot exist yet. They are computed against a signed quote and stated with the fee beside them.
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The decision this model makes
A role takes four months to fill and everyone agrees the market is tight. The applicant tracking system records the requisition, the applicants and the hire date. Nothing joins those dates to the cost of the seat sitting empty.
Time-to-fill gets reported as one average, which hides that two roles took three weeks and one took five months.
The model splits time-to-fill into the stages that produce it — requisition approval, sourcing, interview scheduling, offer — and prices each stage against the plan the seat was budgeted in.
Two of those four stages are internal, which makes them yours to fix. Neither of them is the one the market gets blamed for.
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The rest of this model — the data sets it runs on, the cause split, the working behind the reference figure and a sample output — goes out by email. Two fields, nothing else.