Billings target to daily activity.
Your target, run backwards through your own conversion rates: how many approaches, CVs and interviews it takes each day, and which rate would save you the most work.
Your conversion rates (%)
The figures filled in are examples, not benchmarks. Put in your own: your CRM will have them.
How it works.
It runs your funnel backwards. Your target divided by your average fee gives the placements you need, rounded up. Each conversion rate then tells you how many of the stage before it you need: if 80% of offers are accepted, 20 placements take 25 offers, and so on back to approaches.
The daily figure divides the year by your working weeks times five. 46 weeks allows for holidays and bank holidays; change it to match your own year.
The lever table lifts each rate by five percentage points, one at a time, and shows how many approaches a day that saves. The rate with the biggest saving is usually the one worth working on first. It's arithmetic, not a forecast: real desks are lumpy, and one retained search can change the year.
Last checked 21 October 2026
When the rules change.
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