Outsourcing the Recruitment – Revolution or Evolution?

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is one of the leading under discussion topic around the world for the last couple of years. There are certain reasons driving people to start outsourcing human resources and recruitment concerns. One of the most obvious reasons lies in the low cost of recruitment. Recruitment outsourcing is also gaining popularity because it makes the whole process faster. Here are some broad strokes for consideration:

• The most successful RPO deals usually seen are true partnerships, the vendor working as a specialized extension of the client. Always go for expansion instead of replacement.

• The worst RPOs are when hiring leaders and HR team of the outsourcing organization do not get involved when a RPO vendor or some recruitment agency comes on the board. They still need to be very active participants in the recruitment cycle - referring from their networks, interviewing, till final approval of candidates not necessarily fully but up to certain extent to have an overview of the whole process.

• Careful thoughts are required about what you outsource and what you retain. If there is a certain chance of internal hiring then always prefer to do that instead of outsourcing.

• RPO is good for Recruitment Professionals and HR. RPO process has brought great innovation to job sector. They tend to look at the work like a business- financially focused, deep metrics and reporting, outcome driven. RPOs have created career paths for recruitment professionals, and allowed HR professionals to focus on other priorities.

Recruitment agencies are specially founded to optimize the staffing need of the business with the help of full-service recruiting, specific staffing technologies and techniques, hiring process re-engineering, and recruitment marketing. Their services can either substitute, or strengthen the existing hiring process and can fully fulfill the hiring needs of any company.