Calculate your hiring ROI with skills-first screening

See exactly how much time and money your team saves when you replace CV screening with CareerGuard’s skills-first pipeline. Based on real data from UK hiring teams.

2,000+

Recruiter hours saved

90 days

700 candidates screened

25%

Recruiter hours saved

Live estimate тАФ adjust below to personalise

Annual time saved

745 hrs

Annual cost saving

┬г22,350

Bad hire reduction

┬г11,250 saved

ROI vs CareerGuard cost

4.7x

2,000+

Recruiter hours saved by Unify Solutions in 90 days

┬г30k

Average cost of a single bad hire in the UK (CIPD, 2024)

90%

Reduction in time spent on initial candidate screening

25%

Lower employee turnover vs credential-based hiring

Your personalised ROI estimate

Adjust the sliders to match your team’s hiring profile. Results update instantly based on industry benchmarks and CareerGuard customer data.

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Your hiring profile
All figures used to calculate your savings
Hires per year
25
5 500+
Avg. applications per role
120
20 500
Minutes spent reviewing each CV
6 min
2 min 20 min
Recruiter / HR hourly cost
£30/hr
£15 £80
Avg. salary of roles hired (£k)
£40k
£18k £120k
Current bad hire rate (%)
15%
5% 40%
Current ATS / hiring tool
Team conducting interviews before CareerGuard
CareerGuard plan
Your estimated ROI Live
Annual return on investment
8.2x
for every £1 spent on CareerGuard
1,040 hrs
Recruiter hours saved per year
£31,200
Annual salary cost saved
£18,000
Bad hire cost avoided/year
£49,200
Total annual saving
Payback period 1.5 months
Time-to-hire reduction ~60% faster
How we calculated this Show breakdown ▾
CV screening time saved £12,000
Interview scheduling time saved £8,400
Admin & coordination saved £10,800
Bad hire cost reduction (25%) £18,000
Total annual saving £49,200
CareerGuard annual cost £7,164
Net annual saving £42,036
Calculation methodology: Based on CareerGuard customer data, CIPD UK benchmarks, and Burning Glass Institute research. Assumes 90% reduction in CV screening time, 25% reduction in bad hires vs baseline, and industry-standard recruiter fully-loaded hourly costs. Individual results will vary.

What goes into these numbers

Every figure is grounded in real data from CareerGuard customers and published UK industry research тАФ not marketing guesses.

Recruiter time savings

Based on average 6 minutes per CV review (CIPD 2024) and a 90% reduction in screening time when assessments replace manual sifting. Validated by Unify Solutions’ 2,000+ hours saved figure.

Bad hire cost reduction

CIPD research puts the average cost of a bad hire in the UK at ┬г30,000. Skills-based hiring companies report 25% lower turnover (Burning Glass Institute). We apply a conservative 25% reduction to your bad hire rate.

 

Interview & admin savings

Assumes 50% fewer interviews needed (only qualified candidates proceed), reducing calendar coordination, panel time, and post-interview debriefs. Calculated at your stated fully-loaded hourly rate.

 

Teams who've seen the ROI

These aren’t projections тАФ they’re actual outcomes from companies using CareerGuard today.

“With CareerGuard’s skill screening and SkillSnap invitations, we processed 700 candidates in 90 days while saving over 2,000 recruiter hours тАФ time we reinvested into building stronger client relationships.”

LR

Leila Reyes

Global Head of Recruitment, Unify Solutions

2,000+

Recruiter hours saved by a single team in 90 days. At an average fully-loaded cost of ┬г30/hr, that’s ┬г60,000+ in recovered time тАФ from one hiring cycle.

25%

Lower employee churn for organisations using skills-based hiring vs credential screening, according to Burning Glass Institute. On a ┬г40k average salary, that’s ┬г7,500 per avoided mis-hire.

“The SkillSnap profiles gave us a completely different lens on candidates. We found people we would have screened out in 30 seconds with a CV тАФ who turned out to be our strongest hires.”

FT

Early Careers Team

Financial Times ┬╖ Skills-first early careers

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