Recruitment process is the most prolonged process in an organization. It starts with understanding the hiring needs and ends with onboarding of the employee. The whole process involves multiple teams and the process often does not complete properly because the attention is diverted to other important tasks. To increase the speed of the recruitment process often organization transfers either their full recruitment process or partial process to a recruitment RPO agency.

Organizations need more planned, inclusive, and creative recruitment plans in order to recruit and retain talents. It takes time and effort to find the right candidate for the open positions in an organization for their business need.

RPO Vs Traditional recruitment:

Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a process which involves agreement with a third party for the recruitment and staffing of an organization. Traditional Recruitment is maintained by the in-house HR team.

RPO becomes an extended team member of an organization’s HR function, aligning closely with the organization’s goals and culture. Traditional recruitment process is more focused with individual goals and their project.

Importance of RPO:

Before implementing RPO model in your organization, it is important to understand the criticality of the job openings, and evaluate the importance of the staffing agencies for your organization’s business need. After this evaluation, it is important to choose the most suitable RPO model for your organization.

Every organization has their own objectives and that requires the internal resources to focus on their strategic tasks. RPO model helps in releasing the internal resources, so that they can focus on their roles.

RPO model can recruit the top deserving candidates. It ensures that the talents who were recruited by the agencies are aligned with the company’s goals and culture.

RPO provides different models based on the needs of the organization’s business. The RPO model can be for short term or long term, high-volume or low-volume, or can also be customized through mutual agreement.

RPO agencies provide broader and diverse talent pool. Innovative sourcing strategies are being used by these agencies as their main moto for their business is recruiting and staffing for multiple organizations.

RPO provides a better candidate experience that helps in enhancing the positive brand visibility in online review portals such as Glassdoor, Ambition Box, Google Reviews, etc.

Conclusion:

RPO helps in enhancing the speed and efficiency of the recruitment process by using the experts in the process, advanced technology, and a broader channel of talents. RPO comes with flexible frame of work and scalable business growth to meet hiring needs of an organization. It helps the organization and their staffs to focus on their business goals without investing their time and effort in recruitment. When RPO is compared with traditional recruitment, it is being noticed that RPO provides more strategic and synchronized approach towards recruitment.