By: Ian Harvey

John, Sorry to come late to the party, but I am glad that there is someone else out there who feels the same as I do about CPH.
There is no more direct link between good recruiting and cheap recruiting than there is between good recruiting and expensive recruiting. There are good and bad cheap recruiters, and good and bad expensive ones.
The problem with the fixation on CPH is that it detracts from the more important strategic debate around quality of hire and ROI. Cost is a part of this, of course, but it has been too easy to argue that, even if you don’t know what the return on your recruitment investment is, if you lower the cost the return must be going up.
Even if the metrics currently used to measure ROI are not perfect or universally accepted, this is where the debate and development should lie.