Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

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Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO):

Smarter talent acquisition

Traditional hiring strategies are falling short in today’s complex talent landscape. RPO gives you access to expert recruiters, advanced technology, and data-driven insights to streamline sourcing, assessment, and onboarding.

Permanent solutions tailored to your business

Low-cost, tech-enabled hiring: For organizations without the budget to build a tech stack, we offer a fully configured Applicant Tracking System (ATS)—optimized by experts to streamline hiring and reduce costs.

Targeted skills acquisition: When building new teams or sourcing niche talent, our customized strategies help you engage the right candidates with precision—ensuring alignment across roles, functions, and business goals.

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How recruitment process outsourcing can help your business

  • Enhanced access to skills and expertise

    Leverage our dynamic talent networks to engage the diverse mix of expertise you require. Whatever skills you need, we’ve got the sourcing strategy to connect you, and an engagement strategy to ensure you’re front of mind.

  • Reduced time to hire

    Together, we’ll make intelligent decisions on demand levels, critical talent gaps and sourcing strategies. You’ll benefit from access to dynamic talent networks brimming with quality candidates, with developed assessment and selection processes reducing the time spent approaching and onboarding the people you need to power your growth.

  • Employer value proposition

    In a talent-scarce market, relying solely on remuneration will likely mean missing out on the expertise you need. We’ll work with you to get the best from your brand, building your reputation as a great place to work with professional branding, culture and messaging alignment.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) FAQs

Many organizations turn to RPO providers when existing recruitment processes become inefficient, reliant on external agencies, when they need to downsize, or in-house teams struggle to scale to meet business requirements.

Various types of companies benefit from outsourcing hiring, including: 

  • Those who needing to quickly scale their workforce, for example those who have a high volume hiring needs or project based needs, such as opening a new office, establishing a new team, or perhaps just those who have big variations in hiring demand around certain troughs and peaks, such as staffing up new projects after winning a client.  
  • HR teams under cost pressures lacking the resources for a full-time Talent Acquisition team 
  • Corporations seeking to streamline their recruitment processes due to issues with time to hire preventing projects or work being completed on time, for example because their current TA team doesn’t have the required expertise and database in that area 
  • Organizations who find they are relying frequently on recruitment agencies

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is a subset of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), tailored to meet recruitment needs. RPO focuses specifically on managing the recruitment process, while BPO is a term used to refer to outsourcing entire business functions, which could include recruitment and HR, but equally could be used to refer to customer service or IT support.

Outsourcing hiring can save money by: 

  • Reducing overhead costs: Eliminating the need for in-house recruitment staff.
  • Improving efficiency: Leveraging the expertise of specialized recruitment firms.
  • Minimizing turnover: Ensuring better candidate matches and reducing turnover costs.

Whereas recruitment and staffing agencies focus on sourcing candidates, RPO providers design and implement strategies across the full recruitment process, supporting your business to make better buying decisions. From workforce planning through to onboarding and development, an RPO will work as an extension of your organization

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