Recruitment process outsourcing

Whether you want to outsource your entire recruitment process or just need help with a specific project, our solutions adapt to your circumstances, just like your business

outsourced recruitment solutions

What is Recruitment
Process Outsourcing (RPO)

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.

  • What is the difference between RPO and contingent workforce solutions?

    Simply put, RPO relates to permanent hiring where your provider will manage the full end to end recruitment cycle or just specific parts of the cycle. Contingent Workforce Solutions is a service offering to support the delivery and management of non-permanent or contract resources. RPO is often a solution for long-term hiring strategies whilst CWS offers your organisation flexibility for shorter term or project-based hiring. Together, they offer comprehensive and highly flexible solutions to all your talent needs.

  • 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

    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.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 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.

    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.

Why us

What makes our Recruitment Process Outsourcing solutions different?

Powered by data:
We make data-driven decisions to optimise your hiring processes and deliver the talent you need effectively and efficiently. The key to operational excellence is accurate data, but many businesses struggle to produce consistent metrics and up-to-date market insight.

Enabled by tech:
Technology underpins every aspect of our RPO solutions. It enables us to offer true scalability, deliver enhanced user experiences and uncover exceptional untapped talent pools, mapped to skills. So, it sets our recruiters free to focus on the human side of recruitment and building connections. You can use our best-in-class tech as a complete platform, or it can seamlessly integrate with your tech stack. We work with you to implement the solution that works best for your organisation. We are constantly innovating and improving our tech to meet your future hiring needs, so you can stay ahead of the market without constantly upgrading your own systems.

Delivered by RPO experts:
Our business is built on providing the expertise to solve your toughest resourcing and talent management challenges. We have talent solutions specialists at every stage of the hiring lifecycle. Our teams in the UK will get to know you, champion your organisation’s story, and connect you to professionals who can transform your business. Whatever your challenges, we provide practical solutions and operational excellence at scale and speed, flexing the size and make-up of our team to match your requirements.