Agile outsourced recruitment solutions scaled to suit your needs.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) enables you to transfer all or part of your permanent recruitment processes to an external service provider. The right RPO partner, who understands you and your business' requirements, will allow you to streamline your hiring efforts whilst improving candidate quality. By partnering with an RPO provider you gain access to expert recruiters, best-in-class technology, and flexible recruitment solutions that adapt as your business evolves and grows.
Our UK 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 today and unlock the full potential of your talent acquisition strategy.
43,000
Professionals we help start their next chapter
11,000
Organisations who we help acquire talent
28
Years of delivering outsourcing solutions to clients worldwide
60
Countries where we deliver outsourcing services
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.
Melissa Vienneau
Sales Manager, EMEA
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.
Kristen Buckheit
Managing Director, EMEA
Kristen creates and implements strategic initiatives for our business and clients, empowering our internal teams to provide industry-leading client experience.
Kristin Thomas
President, North America
Kristin is accountable for driving new business development, empowering talent, developing trusted and diverse client partnerships, and providing best-in-class delivery.
Hazel Lancashire
Managing Director, APAC
Hazel is responsible for the strategic direction of our APAC Outsourcing business, with absolute focus on exemplary service delivery to our partners and streamlining business operations.
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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
RPOs provide insight into both hiring and market activity through data analysis and technology platforms.
These providers support the full recruitment process, identifying and implementing ways to improve efficiency and enhance the experience for both clients and candidates.
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.
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.
By partnering with a recruitment outsourcing provider organisations can improve their time to hire, increase candidate quality whilst improving overall hiring experience for the candidate, therefore making this an ideal solution for any organisation looking to optimise their recruitment process.
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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