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(November 29, 2004)
Opportunity Cost (Tactical Importance) Resumes can be argued to have extremely high opportunity costs. To the extent that the best-qualified available candidate for a particular job is not placed in the job, overall quality of the job suffers. To the extent that positions go unfilled in a project (or company) both quality and profitability are compromised. In some cases, unfilled positions may result in additional penalties or the actual demise of the business. At a bare minimum, empty desks in an enterprise result in overtime premiums being paid to existing employees. Since extended delays in hiring adequate numbers of workers will inevitably result in large morale problems and higher attrition rates, we assume that no enterprise can survive the consequences of delaying the hiring process by more than 90 days. We therefore add an opportunity cost to each Resume of 12.5% to its base value. The factor is arrived at in the following way. If a job goes unfilled for 90 days, it will cost a premium of 50% to have that work accomplished. One quarter of that increase will be consumed during a 90-day period. One quarter of 50% is 12.5%. This is an extremely conservative valuation, which does not take account of other financial and morale implications of hiring delays. With opportunity cost factored in, the value of a Resume is increased by 12.5% in each block of the matrix. This figure could easily be doubled to 25% to account for the other tactical variables.
Access To The Resume Like our mining analogy in previous paragraphs, it is less expensive to mine for candidates when the Resumes are on the equivalent of public property. When a third party owns the 'land', fees (license fees in the case of Resume databases) are paid. Often (in mining, real estate and other property transactions) a third party holds an option to the lease and is paid on the basis of market value for access to the 'minerals'. There are many online databases of Resumes with restricted access. Members of the HR community cannot, under any circumstances, acquire direct access to the databases. Should they desire access to the information contained in those databases, they are subject to market pricing (what the market will bear). While no factor has been added to our Resume value for access rights, it is well worth noting that major database access can have fee structures in excess of $50K per year.
- John Sumser © TwoColorHat. All Rights Reserved.
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