You know your agency needs modern recruiting software and a marketing budget to compete. But walking into a city council or county commission meeting and simply asking for more money is rarely successful.
Fiscal hawks want to see numbers. They need a business case. To secure funding for modern recruiting tools, you need to stop talking about “needing more applicants” and start talking about Return on Investment (ROI) and the “Cost of Inaction.”
Calculating the “Cost of Vacancy”
Vacancies are expensive. When you are short-staffed, you are paying massive amounts in time-and-a-half or double-time overtime just to meet minimum staffing requirements. Overworked staff are also more prone to errors, injuries, and burnout, leading to costly worker’s comp claims and even more turnover.
Quantify this. Show the council: “We are currently spending $X per month in overtime due to vacancies. Investing $Y in recruiting software to fill those seats faster will save us $Z net over the next year.”
Demonstrating Better Stewardship of Taxpayer Dollars
Old recruiting methods—billboards, blanket newspaper ads—are untrackable money pits. Modern digital recruiting is highly trackable.
When you use recruiting software and digital ads, you can show exactly how much it costs to generate one hire. You can argue that modernizing is actually better fiscal stewardship because you stop wasting money on ineffective, untrackable methods and start putting budget toward proven, data-backed strategies.
Need help building the business case for modernization? Safeguard Recruiting can help you crunch the numbers to justify the investment in our software and services.
Let’s build your ROI presentation together.
