Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)
Our recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions are designed to revitalise your talent strategy. We bring you talent analytics tools, the latest recruitment technology, innovative sourcing strategies, inclusive solutions and unrivalled access to talent.
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Today's recruitment challenges are unique and complex, so businesses need fully flexible, bespoke solutions. Designed to optimise and enhance your existing recruitment strategy, our enterprise recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solution is built around your requirements.
Reed Talent Solutions’ fully outsourced recruitment solution delivers against all aspects of the talent acquisition process to source, engage, hire and onboard the talent you need. Our RPO solution is designed to address demand and help you meet the recruitment challenges you face in a vast and ever-changing labour market.
We give you access to the people you need by curating talent pools of potential candidates with the right knowledge and skills to work in your organisation. These pools allow you to rapidly scale up your capacity to meet unexpected or fluctuating demands. We embed your employer brand at every stage of the process, protecting and promoting it, ensuring your employee value proposition stands out while supporting your equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging programme.
Working with us as your RPO provider will empower better budgetary control and save your organisation money. We provide you with the best talent acquisition technology available, enabling you to enhance the decisions you make and allowing you to plan and forecast through market insights and talent analytics.
Why choose us?
We have over three decades of experience in running successful RPO solutions. Our team of experts can work onsite with you, or remotely, to take care of recruiting the right talent for your business. Our specialists will finely tune your recruitment processes for outcome-based results, making them more efficient and ensuring high performance.
Our 24/7 screening service completes over one million candidate checks every year, guaranteeing your compliance from the very start.
We invest and integrate the most advanced technology into our RPO solutions. This allows us to deliver the optimum experience to you and your candidates. Our technology stack provides data-led insight to maintain your competitive edge.
We have the capacity and capability to handle everything. From talent strategy, attraction, sourcing, and selection, through to the pre-employment screening and onboarding of your permanent workforce. Alternatively, select only those services you require, and we will create a modular solution for you.
Reed Talent Solutions’ comprehensive customer experience programme enables us to capture continuous feedback, allowing us to evaluate our services and ensure the needs of our customers remain at the heart of everything we do. During this process, we also make sure we actively promote your employee value proposition and support your equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging programme.
Case studies
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FAQs
Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) meaning the outsourcing of all, or part, of a company’s permanent recruitment requirements to an external service provider, can include delivery of the end-to-end recruitment process, from workforce planning through to the onboarding of a new hire. RPO could also encompass a single element of the recruitment process, such as attraction or selection, or a combination of different elements. In all cases, RPO differs greatly from providers such as staffing companies and contingent search providers as it assumes ownership of the design and management of the recruitment process and responsibility for the results.
RPO is a form of business process outsourcing (BPO). Whereas BPO involves the contracting of non-essential business tasks to a third-party provider, RPO sees an employer transfer all, or part, of its recruitment processes to an external provider. Recruitment process outsourcing involves more than simply filling positions in time of high demand. It is about improving the overall recruitment process in an organisation. RPO provides the talent to grow an organisation, while BPO allows organisations to concentrate on core functions.
The main difference between an RPO and a managed service programme (MSP) is the type of worker they supply to a company. RPO providers solely focus on finding permanent employees, while an MSP will find you the perfect temporary workers via an engaged supply chain. Another difference is the way of working. An RPO provider is an outsourced provider so will operate 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.
There are three basic types of RPO recruitment models. It is important to say that RPO is not a one-size-fits-all solutions, but it can be divided into on-demand RPO, function-based RPO, and full RPO.
On-demand RPO consists of a contract-based agreement with a provider which looks after an organisation’s messaging, processes, and the results they require. This solution specifies a defined number of jobs within a set period.
Function-based RPO sees a provider take a section of an organisation’s needs from them – for example, taking control of IT.
Full RPO involves an organisation’s entire recruitment function being provided by an RPO vendor.
A tailored RPO solution provides an organisation complete visibility and control over its entire recruitment process or a single stage within the process, helping to shape informed recruitment decisions. The benefits of outsourcing recruitment and selection processes include increased quality, efficiency greater visibility and control of recruitment, access to market-leading recruitment and HR expertise, improved selection, reduced costs, and a reduction in the time to hire.
Selective RPO addresses specific parts of an organisation’s internal recruitment process. With selective RPO, organisations receive best practices for those specific services, such as the screening process.
RPO can be used by organisations of all sizes and types. One of the benefits of recruitment process outsourcing is that it can be implemented for both small-scale and large-scale business needs.