Project recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)
Our project recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services provide a rapidly deployed specialist talent acquisition team, to help you scale up for high-volume or specialist recruitment campaigns.
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The ever-changing world of work requires an adaptable permanent workforce solution to ensure peaks in workforce demands, project hiring, and tight deadlines can all be met. In-house teams will not always have the capacity or the expertise to deliver in the timeframes required by your business.
Recruitment process outsourcing solutions (RPO) are often seen as a longer term or more strategic permanent recruitment investment. Project RPO services are a viable and effective way to access all the benefits of a traditional end-to-end RPO on a short-term basis.
Partnering with Reed Talent Solutions to deliver your recruitment project or campaign will provide you with:
A tailored service and process designed to align to your objectives and employee value proposition (EVP)
Outsourced management and delivery of attraction, sourcing, selection, screening, and onboarding - or select only those services you require
High-touch candidate experience and engagement throughout the process
An experienced and dedicated recruitment team, trained to deliver against your hiring processes
State-of-the-art talent technology and tools, to enable increased streamlining of the experience, and provide informative talent metrics
Insights and performance analytics to enable your team to proactively drive the project or campaign, taking full accountability for targets and deadlines
Designed for your requirements...
Project RPO offers a flexible and scalable solution for your urgent and business-critical recruitment projects or campaigns, without needing to make a long-term commitment. The solution also provides a range of other benefits including:
Ensuring a project or campaign’s outcomes are achieved within set timeframes, but with no compromise on quality or experience
Allowing you to partner with an expert team who are accountable to deliver against workforce targets and quality levels
Gives your organisation access to a wider pool of talent through our proven attraction and direct sourcing methods
Reducing the cost of hiring and training recruiters, allowing you to achieve better budget management and cost control
Providing analytics and insights into your project or campaign, helping you to inform decisions and future campaigns
Allows your organisation to respond to unpredictable business changes and demands, and deliver continuity while maintaining customer quality
Why choose us?
We can handle everything, from talent strategy, attraction, sourcing and selection, through to the pre-employment screening and onboarding of your permanent workforce.
Your own dedicated team of experts will act as an extension of your talent acquisition team, taking care of finding and recruiting the right talent for your business.
Whether internal or external, via direct sourcing or a supply chain of specialist agencies, we engage multiple channels to ensure you gain access to the best talent available, helping your business grow and thrive.
Reed Talent Solutions has an extensive team of specialists, with a vast array of experience gained in delivering direct hiring projects and campaigns across multiple sectors for over three decades.
We invest in the most advanced technology and digital attraction tools, delivering the optimum candidate experience, significant cost savings, and the data-led insight needed to maintain your competitive edge.
Our client relationship team will work closely with you and provide strategic advice on process optimisation, market insights, and attraction strategies.
Our 24/7 screening service completes over one million candidate checks every year, guaranteeing your compliance from the start.
Case studies
Royal Mail Group
Delivering the post: Recruiting postal workers across the UK for Royal Mail
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Driving a better solution: Recruiting 1,100 test centre associates
Government department
Fast and agile deployment of laboratory professionals during the pandemic
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FAQs
Project recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provides in-house recruitment teams with a full end-to-end outsourced recruitment process on a short-term basis, usually to address a peak in demand, volume campaign, project, or for a niche hiring campaign.
Project RPO is similar to end-to-end RPO, especially when it comes to capability and service design, but project-based RPO is usually delivered as a short-term solution over a few weeks or months. Project RPO is often used to target a temporary hiring requirement. The model is very effective if you need the benefits of end-to-end approach but want to maintain internal recruitment capabilities for day-to-day hiring.
The main difference between RPO and project RPO is the time commitment between the two services. Project-based RPO is normally a short-term solution, while RPO can last years. Project RPO is an ideal solution for any permanent workforce campaign, project, or niche hiring requirement. Utilising this model will enable the fast and effective deployment of an end-to-end RPO solution on a short-term basis.
There are three main types of RPO models: Enterprise RPO, on-demand RPO or project RPO, and hybrid RPO. Enterprise or traditional RPO involves a long-term RPO partner taking on all an organisation’s needs, while project RPO is more agile and is aimed at those businesses which are looking for a shorter-term commitment. The third option, hybrid RPO, offers a combination of enterprise and project RPO, with the best model and service used across an organisation dependent on the current requirements.
The main benefit of project RPO is its ability to provide organisations with immediate access to an end-to-end RPO service, including staffing, technology, resources, and support, without committing to a longer-term RPO contract.
Other benefits of project-based RPO include:
Bespoke service and process design to meet your targets and employee value proposition
Flexible and scalable project and campaign support
The project RPO provider takes accountability for project or campaign outcomes, assuring the quality of hire
Partnership with a team of highly-experienced RPO experts
Faster access to a wider pool of talent
Reduced cost of hire, including in-house resources and training
Project and campaign analytics and insights
Project RPO is ideal for any permanent workforce campaign, project, or niche-hiring requirement. RPO project-based recruiter models enable fast and effective deployment of an RPO solution on a short-term basis – if those are your needs, it is the perfect solution for you.
An RPO model differs from a managed service programme (MSP) mainly in terms of the type of worker they supply. RPO solely focuses on finding permanent employees, whereas an MSP will provide temporary workers via an engaged supply chain. They also differ in the way they work, with an RPO provider being an outsourced provider operating as an extension of your business by utilising your brand and integrating with your permanent recruitment processes.
RPO recruitment costs can vary greatly because RPO recruitment is designed to accommodate both small-scale and large-scale business needs. However, one of the advantages of recruitment process outsourcing is that as a standard cost is agreed for each successful hire, RPO is a vary cost effective solution. Indeed, working with an RPO partner significantly decreases the average cost-per-hire.
RPO performance can be measured via a series of key performance indicators, which will be aligned to your organisation's wider objectives. Typically, these will be based on sourcing, advertising of jobs, screening, shortlisting, assessment, training, interviewing, management of talent pools, process improvement, and oversight.