I am charging recruiting costs for funded projects to the projects.
I am careful about costs incurred prior to receipt of award, but for on-
going ones, particularly TRIO projects where turnover is constant
and hiring a zoo, I have the directors put a category in their
budgets for these costs.
Haven't had any problems, except when the directors want to bring
in a whole herd of applicants for overly baroque reviews.  When
the costs become the director's problem the pools become MUCH more
reasonable.

Spanky
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My Business Office wants to charge search costs (advertising, travel, etc.)
for employees hired through grant funds to the grant account.  I assume this
cannot be done if the search is conducted before the grant period begins,
but I don't believe I've ever seen search costs written into any grants from
agencies such as NSF, the U.S. Department of Ed, NIH, etc.

Do any of you routinely include employee search costs in your proposals?
Are there any federal agencies that accept search costs as allowable?

Is the only OMB related regulation on this A-21?  And does section J.32. on
recruiting costs apply in situations where you are conducting searches for
just one or two individuals for the purposes of a grant project?  (To me,
J.32. sounds like they're referring to a project that contains its own
grant-supported personnel office.)

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