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Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
Agile outsourced recruitment solutions scaled to suit your needs.
Flexible RPO solutions for strategic growth
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) enables you to transfer all or part of your permanent recruitment processes to an external provider. With the right RPO partner, who understands you and your business fully, you gain access to expert recruiters, best-in-class technology, and flexible recruitment solutions that adapt as your business evolves and grows.
Find the right RPO recruitment solution for you
Whether you want to outsource your entire hiring process or simply need help on a particular project, talent group or part of your recruitment process, our agile solutions adapt to changing circumstances and evolve as quickly as your business.
Full RPO is a comprehensive solution that outsources your entire hiring process from sourcing to selection, assessment, offer management and onboarding. We manage timescales, budgets, and application volumes, whilst ensuring compliance and providing accurate and informative data.
Project RPO provides a rapid response to your one-off or short to medium-term talent demands. We can implement an effective hiring process within six weeks and find you the talent you need at the volume and speed you require, without adding headcount to your in-house talent acquisition team.
Modular RPO offers tailored support for recruitment components: sourcing, shortlisting, assessment, interviewing, or onboarding. We provide resources and expertise where needed, building bespoke teams to strengthen capability and integrate seamlessly into your infrastructure.
Contact us to discuss your RPO requirements
Why partner with Robert Walters Outsourcing?
Our RPO teams work in a truly customer-centric way, combining operational excellence with an agile approach to ensure that you get the very best support and up-to-the-minute, expert advice when and where it matters most. Partner with us for your RPO services and unlock the full potential of your talent acquisition strategy.
Meet our RPO specialists
Jessica Holt
Managing Director, EMEA
Jessica joined us in 2021 to establish our Consultancy function and now leads our EMEA Outsourcing business, delivering industry-leading RPO, MSP, Consultancy and SOW solutions.
Ryan Broad
Head of Growth, EMEA
Ryan is a strategic leader unlocking growth and innovation across EMEA. With expertise in AI-driven talent solutions, he helps organisations overcome complex workforce challenges.
Melissa Vienneau
Sales Manager, EMEAA
An experienced Sales and Development Manager, Melissa has over 10 years’ experience in recruitment, supporting her clients by ensuring that their workforce solutions are fit for purpose.
Mairianne Reardon
Global Head of Growth and Sales Enablement
Mairianne joined us back in 2017, to head up the APAC Sales team and is now is committed to growing sustainable client partnerships across the globe.
FAQs
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What are the benefits of using a specialist RPO company?
The benefits of Recruitment Process Outsourcing include:
Scalability: Recruitment Process Outsourcing allows your business to be more flexible and therefore can scale up and down based on business needs, this makes it an ideal solution for companies with fluctuating hiring demand.
Technology integration: RPO solutions are underpinned by technology. Access to recruitment technologies are integral to sourcing the right talent for your organisation. Tech can be fully implemented into your recruitment processes or can be integrated seamlessly into your tech stack. An RPO partner will work with you to find what works best for your organisation.
Cost efficiency: Through optimised hiring processes and economies of scale RPO solutions can reduce recruitment costs for your organisation.
Reduced time-to-fill: With access to talent pools RPO providers have expertise and access to wider talent networks therefore reducing time to hire and strong quality hires.
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What is the difference between RPO recruiters and a traditional staffing agency?
A recruitment outsourcing provider acts as an embedded extension of an organisation’s talent acquisition team, which can be tailored to your hiring needs - whether it is support for the end-to-end hiring cycle or specific areas.
Outsourcing providers find talent through the best channels for the client, including direct sourcing, referrals, internal mobility or engaging staffing agencies.
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Do you offer RPO on a global scale?
Yes, as well as the UK, Robert Walters Outsourcing delivers talent into more than 60 countries for our clients. We have client account teams in 23 countries and a network of 6 global service centres that support our on-site teams, this allows us to be truly global and provide agile delivery of our services wherever your organisation may need to fill vacancies. -
What kind of companies benefit from RPO?
Companies of all sizes and from all industries can benefit from Recruitment Process Outsourcing. Large organisations can leverage recruitment outsourcing providers to handle high-volume hiring, streamlining talent acquisition. Small and medium-sized businesses can benefit from RPO by gaining access to top talent without the need to build an in-house recruitment team, allowing them to scale more efficiently.
Our offices span the UK from London to Birmingham and Manchester, and extend globally. Contact us today to learn how we can assist with your outsourcing requirements.
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What is RPO recruiment?
RPO recruitment, or Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), is when an organisation partners with an external provider and outsources all or some of their hiring processes. As an outsourcing cpmpany, Robert Walters Outsourcing would act as an extension of your talent acquisition team, bringing expertise, technology, and scalable solutions to improve the quality, speed and efficiency of your recruitment strategy.