THE BENEFITS OF RPO AT A GLANCE

FIVE MINUTES ON the Benefits of Outsourcing Your Recruitment Function

A strategic talent acquisition partner will not only maximize your recruitment results; it will help you reach your organizational goals by building a stronger company with high-quality talent. The benefits you’ll realize by outsourcing your recruitment function include:

BEST PRACTICES

RPOs are recruitment experts. With years of experience delivering unique solutions to a variety of clients, your company is sure to benefit from the most effective recruitment strategies and best practices available. Full-time recruitment professionals, with in-depth industry expertise, partake in regular knowledge-sharing meetings and continuously train on the latest recruitment techniques and technologies. A team of subject matter experts is tasked to continually drive innovative sourcing and recruiting tactics, which your recruitment function will benefit from by partnering with an RPO.

GLOBAL RECRUITMENT

With the advances in technology and benefits of operating offshore, global enterprise is growing. A global recruitment partner will take the worry out of your international hiring needs. You’ll be able to think globally while your RPO partner acts locally. Not only do employment laws among countries vary, but so do cultural hiring standards. A multidimensional strategy that preserves your employment brand by using domestic strategies and incorporates adaptations of tactics to fit international situations will form an ideal global recruitment program specific to your needs.

ADVANCED ANALYTICS

There are dozens of recruitment metrics you could track, and RPOs have the inherent capabilities to do so. An RPO partner will implement systems and technologies that will track the metrics most vital to your company. In addition to market research and anecdotal insights, these analytics will help your company and RPO partner recognize trends and reassess recruitment strategies regularly. This is important so your recruitment strategies can continually be adjusted to retain a proactive recruitment model, including an effective workforce planning strategy.

TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS

There are tons of technologies and tools companies can use to improve their recruitment process, but where do you start? An RPO partner has the experience using a variety of technologies and tools, and offers the expertise to guide you through using the options that will most benefit your recruitment program. An evolved RPO provides a strategic business value through combining business services and technology capabilities to help clients reach their organizational goals through the quality of their recruitment process.

BUSINESS STRATEGY

By outsourcing your company’s recruitment function, human resources and hiring managers have more time to develop and manage strategic business initiatives. With a recruitment expert as your partner, you can rest assured that your talent acquisition program is operating smoothly. Hiring managers benefit from the efficiency of only interviewing prescreened, top-notch candidates. And, as an RPO that holds transparency and communication in high regard, you remain connected with the hiring process.

42%

of those surveyed said filling their open jobs is “harder” now compared to last year.

SOURCE: ERE Media, Inc.