Resources

Guides and tools for talent teams.

Straight answers on what hiring actually costs, how referral channels are built, and how to reach the people who are not applying.

Recruitment agency fee calculator

Enter your hiring plan and agency terms to see annual spend, cost per hire, and what the same hires cost on a fixed-fee referral model.

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Cost per hire calculator

Split external and internal recruiting spend across a year to see your true cost per hire, and how much of every hire is agency fees.

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Guides

Written for people who own the hiring number.

No gated PDFs. Each guide is a working reference you can share with finance and hiring managers.

Cost guide · 7 min read

Recruitment agency fees explained

What agencies actually charge, how the percentage is calculated, and the contract terms that decide whether you get anything back when a hire does not work out.

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Metrics guide · 6 min read

Cost per hire: how to calculate it properly

A cost-per-hire number is only useful if everyone agrees what goes into it. Here is the formula, the costs teams routinely forget, and the levers that genuinely reduce it.

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Playbook · 8 min read

Building an employee referral programme that works

Referral schemes fail for predictable reasons — unclear roles, slow feedback and rewards that arrive too late to matter. Here is a structure that holds up.

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Sourcing guide · 6 min read

Reaching passive candidates without an agency

The people you most want to hire are not reading job adverts. Reaching them is a relationship problem, not an advertising problem.

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Cost guide · 8 min read

How to reduce recruitment agency fees

Negotiating the percentage is the smallest lever. The bigger savings come from the terms around it, and from reducing how many roles reach an agency in the first place.

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Comparison · 9 min read

Recruitment agency alternatives compared

What each alternative actually costs, where it works, and the failure mode that sends most teams back to an agency.

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Cost guide · 9 min read

How to reduce cost per hire

Cost per hire is a symptom, not a lever. You lower it by changing where hires come from and how much of the funnel you waste — not by squeezing one invoice.

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Linillo vs a recruitment agency

Pricing, evidence and candidate ownership side by side, with the cost of the same hires on both models.

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Get the hiring cost briefings

Occasional emails on agency pricing, cost per hire benchmarks and referral programme design. No sales sequence.

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A measurable referral channel with fixed costs and no agency mark-up.

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