Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is a form of business process outsourcing (BPO) where an employer outsources or transfers all or part of its recruitment activities to an external service provider.
HRO Today defines recruitment process outsourcing services to include: sourcing; screening; testing; interviewing; background checks and drug testing; hiring; coordinating the offer letter; on- boarding; maintaining applicant tracking logs, requisition, and candidate files; reporting; and training. Full-service RPO runs the gamut—from finding the candidate to hiring a new employee and almost everything in between.
Outsourced activities range from strategic (workforce planning) to the administrative (generating offer letters) and nearly always involve sourcing candidates. The RPO services firm may hire the displaced recruiters of the company they are now servicing. The services firm may be responsible for all hiring of a certain class of worker, such as non-exempt positions. Contract recruiters may be located at a client site, but often service the client remotely. RPO services firms may help a company re-engineer its recruiting department by standardizing processes; they may write job descriptions; they may facilitate the transition from candidate to new hire.
Recruiting is traditionally industry specific and strategies that work in the manufacturing industry for example may not work well in the life sciences industry and vice versa.
Hence from a Strategic perspective it's always a good idea to find niche based recruiting strategies that yield well for each industry vertical. The recruiting industry is already catching on to this phenomenon and "niche based" job sites are gaining rapid momentum and popularity. However sourcing talent is only a part albeit a very important aspect of the entire recruiting process.
For the purposes of this article we will study what are all the steps within the recruitment process that can and cannot be outsourced to a third party vendor. I will not be getting into the challenges, benchmarking of vendors, quality matrices etc since that is beyond the scope of this article.
Once you’ve decided that recruitment process outsourcing is the right move for your organisation, how do you pick the right agency? Ross Bentley explains the art of choosing and using an RPO partner.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
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The Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association defines RPO as follows: "when a provider acts as a company's internal recruitment function for a portion or all of its jobs. RPO providers manage the entire recruiting/hiring process from job profiling through the on-boarding of the new hire, including staff, technology, method and reporting.
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