Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) is a specialty within recruitment where an external provider (i.e. Hudson RPO) acts as a company's internal recruitment function for a portion or for all of its jobs. The recruiters may work virtually or onsite at the client’s office location on a fully outsourced, on-demand or project basis as follows:
Fully Outsourced (Enterprise or End-to-End RPO): The client outsources all (or nearly all) facets of recruitment from sourcing to onboarding for an entire global enterprise, or within a specific geographic region, division, department or function.
RPO Project: RPO Projects are typically three to six months in duration. They are designed to meet a specific challenge and make a positive impact on your business quickly. RPO projects are often used for new organizational initiatives, reducing hiring backlogs, new product launches, workforce expansion or reorganization, or sourcing to fill your talent database for filling future vacancies
On-Demand Recruitment: Add a seasoned recruiter from our bench to your team for a designated period of time. On-demand recruiters may provide sourcing, recruiting, screening, interviewing or technology services, depending on your specific need.
Scalability and Flexibility: This refers to our ability to increase or decrease the number of recruiters we deploy to a client depending on their recruitment volumes. As the recruitment volumes increase, we grow the number of recruiters deployed. As the recruitment volumes decrease, we deploy the recruiters to other solutions we manage, thereby reducing the cost for the client.
Reduced Time-to-Hire: Measured from the date we receive the new role to the time when a candidate accepts a job offer. We typically reduce the time it takes to recruit a new hire by 30-50%. Hiring good people faster and reducing down time can substantially help productivity.
Cost Reduction: The amount of cost reduction will depend on what recruitment model the client has used in the past and what type of new model they are implementing. If a client has solely relied on recruitment agencies in the past to fill all roles, then cost savings can be in the 30-50% range on a cost-per-hire basis. Clients moving from an in-house model to an outsourced model may not save as much, but they will achieve other benefits (i.e. reduced time-to-fill, scalability and flexibility, increased quality of hire).
Quality of Hire: Hudson RPO has proprietary processes and assessment tools that ensure the optimal fit between the role, person and organizational culture. We start by creating a comprehensive job and person brief, we find talent from a wide range of sources (internal employees, employee referrals, internet, job boards, networks etc.), and we conduct behavioral interviews, psych testing and reference checks to assess candidate fit and make the offer on behalf of the client. We also stand behind the quality of hires we place through offering extended guarantee periods for the period of the placement. This means if the person leaves within this period, we will replace them free of charge.
More transparency around recruitment via enhanced reporting: Hudson RPO will ensure the right technology and processes are deployed to provide the organization with highly comprehensive reports on total recruitment activity, making it far easier to understand what is happening, what is working/not working and how things can be improved.