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Should you develop the capability internally or recruit it?
Compare training, lost productive time and external hiring ramp without assuming identical success rates.
Example scenario
Editable demonstration inputs, not verified industry benchmarks. Enable JavaScript to calculate your own scenario.
- Capability roles required
- 10
- Training cost / internal candidate
- $12,000
- Productive hours displaced / trainee
- 160
- Value / displaced hour
- $60
- Internal candidates successfully qualified
- 80 %
- External recruiting & onboarding / hire
- $25,000
- External ramp productivity loss / hire
- $20,000
Capability-investment savings from reskilling
Example result only, not a forecast or promise.
- Internal training investment
- $270,000
- External hiring investment
- $450,000
- Expected internal candidates to train
- 12.5
What to do with this result
Validate skill assessments and internal mobility; compare ongoing compensation and retention separately before choosing the path.
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Calculation method
Internal investment = roles / qualification rate × (training cost + displaced hours × value). External investment = roles × (recruiting/onboarding + ramp loss).
Assumptions and limitations
- Example inputs are editable scenarios, not Aryo results or independently verified industry benchmarks.
- Time value is not guaranteed payroll savings. Include adoption, human review, exceptions, security and change management in implementation decisions.