Outsourcing is a commonly used business strategy that enables companies to acquire expertise in non-core functional and shared service areas.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) provides you the option to outsource all or part of the recruiting process to an external service provider.

The RPO service provider delivers the competencies, tools, technologies, and activities to serve as your recruiting department or as an adjunct to your existing recruiting team. RPOs differ from temporary, contingency, and executive search firms. While these organizations do provide a valuable service, they do not qualify as an RPO. Their focus is on filling a position by delivering candidates. An RPO’s focus is on improving the recruiting process in addition to delivering qualified candidates.

The Benefits
The primary objective in engaging an RPO is to improve quality, cost, and service associated with the recruiting process. More specific benefits include:

• Accessing recruiting expertise in a wide range of competencies

• Predicting and reducing expenses

• Achieving greater flexibility in managing fluctuations in recruiting volumes, ensuring that the recruiting solution meets the business need

• Reducing dependencies on agencies

• Accessing expertise and core competencies brought to the recruiting process

• Minimizing capital expenditures on ATS, job board memberships, and other HRIS costs

• Minimizing headcount

• Allowing employees to focus on core business

• Bringing conditional skills required for a full service recruiting model including sales and networking, customer service, relationship marketing techniques, IT, hiring process re-engineering, EEOC requirements, staffing metrics, and talent identification