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THE PEOPLE INDEX™

Is your people budget building people?
Or just filling seats?

Answer 5 questions. See exactly how much you are spending on recruitment fees vs investing in the team you already have. Then see what CareerVive would change.

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Q1 · RECRUITMENT VOLUME

How many hires do you make per year?

5hires
Steady growth
130+
Q2 · AVERAGE SALARY

What is the average salary of a hire?

£60k
Mid-senior mix
£30k£200k+
Q3 · HOW YOU HIRE

How do you typically hire?

We are working out how much of your hiring goes through agencies vs direct channels. Pick the option closest to your reality.

100% via agenciesEvery hire goes through a recruitment agency.
Mostly agenciesSome direct hires, most through agencies.
A 50/50 mixHalf agency, half direct or referrals.
Mostly directOccasional agency for hard-to-fill roles.
100% directJob boards, referrals, LinkedIn, internal recruiter.
Q4 · YOUR TEAM

How big is your team today?

50people
Scale-Up territory
5500+
Q5 · THE REAL QUESTION

Per person, per year, how much do you invest in coaching or L&D?

Training budget. Coaching. Courses. Conference tickets. Anything that develops your existing people. Honest estimate. Zero is a valid answer.

£500
Most businesses sit here
£0£3,000+
YOUR PEOPLE INDEX™

Here is your reality. Then the reframe.

Two numbers. One ratio. Then the move that changes both.

YOUR CURRENT POSITION

This is where your people budget is going.

ANNUAL RECRUITMENT SPEND
£60,000
Agency fees & hiring costs per year
ANNUAL PEOPLE INVESTMENT
£25,000
Coaching & L&D for your whole team
You spend 2.4x more filling seats than investing in the people you already have.
Your people budget is 70% recruitment, 30% development.
THE REFRAME

What if the same budget bought you both?

Here is what most businesses miss. Agency fees are not just a hiring cost. They are the single largest line item in your people budget, and every pound is gone the moment the hire signs. No coaching. No onboarding. No capability built.

ROC™ replaces agency fees with a performance system. You still get the hire. You also get future-fit role design, structured onboarding, and 90 days of coaching built in. Typical cost: around 40% less than an equivalent agency engagement.

That difference is not a saving. It is a reinvestment. The money does not leave your people budget. It moves from filling seats to building people.

With ROC™ replacing your agency spend, you would free up roughly £24,000 per year. Redirected through People Performance, that is enough to nearly double what you invest in each of your people.

BEFORE · TODAY
Recruitment £60,000
70%
People development £25,000
30%
AFTER · WITH ROC™ & PEOPLE PERFORMANCE
ROC™ (hiring & onboarding) £36,000
42%
People Performance (coaching & L&D) £49,000
58%
Same total spend. Completely different business outcome.
YOUR RECOMMENDED STARTING POINT

Start with ROC™ Growth & People Performance Scale-Up.

Based on your team size and hiring volume, this combination gives you the fastest path to the reinvestment.

NEXT STEP

Turn this into a real plan.

Book a 30-minute call. We will pressure-test your Index numbers against your real business, walk you through exactly how the reinvestment would look, and show you where to start.

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