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What is Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

Here is how the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association defines Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO):

“RPO’s act as a company’s internal recruitment function for a portion or all of its jobs. RPO’s manage the entire recruiting/hiring process from job profiling through the on-boarding of the new hire, including staff, technology, method and reporting. A properly managed RPO will improve a company’s time to hire, increase the quality of the candidate pool, provide verifiable metrics, reduce cost and improve governmental compliance.”

Building on the definition above, there are a few key differentiators between RPO and other types of staffing organizations.

1) True RPO’s manage the entire recruiting function, not just a subset.  For example, organizations that focus exclusively on sourcing candidates are not a true RPO.

2) RPO’s focus on process – consistency in approach and methods enables an RPO to achieve superior results when compared with most other methods of staffing.

3) RPO’s can hire across most industries, experience levels and functional roles – exactly what you would expect from your internal recruiting department. Not just sales associates, programmers or designers positions like some agencies or staffing firms.

RPO is an interesting way to tackle the recruitment process, it sort of combines two worlds, the internal recruitment staff and the external recruitment consultant. A very useful resource for the HR dept!

/Peter

By Peter on 2008 06 21