Placements, not applications
Rank channels by placements filled and margin earned rather than by form fills.
For Staffing & Recruitment
Match filled placements and the margin they earned to the campaigns that produced the client relationship.
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The blind spot
Client-side enquiries and candidate applications are measured together, produce entirely different value, and are frequently bought with the same budget.
Rank channels by placements filled and margin earned rather than by form fills.
Run over a year and every placement for a client traces to the channel that won them.
Two funnels, measured separately, because their economics have nothing in common.
Not impressions, not leads, not cost per click. Closed revenue, by the channel that produced it, for a period you choose — with the portion we could not trace shown rather than quietly shared out across your paid channels.
| Channel | Sales | Revenue | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn Ads | 61 | $297,000 | |
| Google Ads | 39 | $162,000 | |
| Email marketing | 24 | $90,000 | |
| Direct / Unknown | 74 | $351,000 |
Most staffing marketing budget produces candidate applications, because that is what job advertising does and it is easy to measure. Revenue comes from clients, and client acquisition is a slower, quieter, more expensive funnel.
Measuring both on cost per lead blends them into a number that describes neither. Ranking by placement margin separates them and usually shows that the client-side spend, which looks expensive per enquiry, produces nearly all the revenue.
The value of winning a client is every placement they make afterwards, often across years and several roles. Judging acquisition on the first placement undervalues whichever channel brings clients who keep hiring.
Because the match is on the client contact and there is no attribution window, a report run across a year credits the full placement history back to the channel that produced the relationship.
"We generated 400 leads" invites an argument. "This channel closed $186,400 last quarter, here is the reconciliation" ends one. The teams that can show closed revenue by channel are the teams that get the next increase approved, because they are asking with evidence rather than with conviction.
Killing spend is politically harder than adding it, because someone always owns the channel being cut. A number that reconciles to the sales export takes the argument out of the room — you are not overruling a colleague's judgement, you are reading the same ledger they are.
Platform-reported conversions do not reconcile to revenue, and eventually someone in finance notices. Reporting built from your own closed-sales export starts from the number finance already trusts, which is why it holds up when it is checked.
Because this reconciles exports rather than tracking visitors, it works on months that have already closed. You are not instrumenting now to learn something in ninety days — you can answer for last quarter today, which is usually when the question is being asked.
Export the client side — filled placements with the hiring contact, the margin or fee, and the date. Candidate data is not needed and should not be included.
It lands in Direct / Unknown, which is honest, and its size is a finding in itself. In this industry it is usually the largest single bucket.
Which is exactly why ranking on margin rather than placement count matters — export the figure your team plans on and keep it consistent.
Flat monthly pricing with no per-call, per-minute or per-form fees. The number here is the number on the invoice. Most staffing & recruitment land on Enterprise — ten seats for the team and the highest monthly record allowance, since a year of closed deals is a lot of rows.
A single business getting started
$49/mo
billed monthly
A business scaling ad spend
$199/mo
billed monthly
One business closing at volume
$499/mo
billed monthly
Reporting on many clients at once
$799/mo
billed monthly
Filled placements: a hiring-contact email or phone, the fee or margin, and the placement date.
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