What is RPO?

What is RPO services? RPO stands for recruitment process outsourcing. It’s where a company outsources recruitment to a third-party expert. This allows them to drive cost, quality, efficiency, service, and scalability benefits. An RPO can help you find employees who are a great fit in half the time.

RPO recruitment serves as an extension of your company’s human resources department and can manage the recruiting process. Their solutions depend on what your company needs and what resources you have available to them.  Services include job profiling to the on-boarding of new hires.

RPO solutions and services are different from a staffing company because an RPO assumes ownership over the management of the whole recruiting processes and assumes responsibility for their results. They also promote your company’s brand rather than the RPO.

Is the recruitment process outsourcing to and RPO right for your company?

They can offer some benefits including improved hiring time and better quality of candidates, along with tangible data for your recruiting process. This can give your company an aggressive advantage.

A few things you should consider before outsourcing recruitment whether you need help hiring or want to outsource the entire process.

Why does your company need help to recruit?

Understand your company’s need for hiring and recruitment assistance. When you understand what exactly your company needs then you can find a great fit with a PEO that can focus this hiring process for you. Help you design a process that fits your company’s needs.

• Internal resources are over-taxed.
• You know there will be an increase in hiring.
• Your internal management team wants a more accountable option than traditional internal recruiters or an agency.
• Recruiting metrics and data including quality, speed and cost are not known.

The specific problems an RPO can and cannot solve.

Where RPO firms excel is in their ability to improve candidate quality, increase recruitment responsiveness and implement a best-in-class recruitment process to carry your company forward. If your company has inefficient processes and infrastructure in place than an RPO cannot solve that, but a PEO can help you put these processes in place. You will need to focus on the end result, instead of the immediate need to cut costs. Hiring employees who perform at a high level and retaining them will dramatically improve your company’s bottom line and a PEO, rather than an RPO, can help you get there with there.