How long should the application be?

No step pays for itself

With no steps at all you would be $71,970 a month better off.

• Of the 275.8 applicants it screens out each month, 226.7 are applicants who could do the job: 82.2% of everyone screened out.
• Still getting through: 70.9 of the 120 applicants who could not.
• It costs the people going through it 476.1 hours a month, 151.9 of them from people who do not get through.

This is a worked example with illustrative figures, not data about any real person or company. Change any of them in the calculator and the answer changes with them.

How this answer was worked out

Every formula is written out on the formulas page.

What the calculator asks you

• How many steps, and how many people arrive
• What each wanted person is worth, and the share each step turns away
• The share it is meant to stop, what each costs, and the share each step stops
• What a step costs the people going through it
• Any fee paid by those who get through

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