Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

Many people hear “Recruitment Process Outsourcing” and think of a staffing firm or headhunters. But with Cielo, Recruitment Process Outsourcing is when you partner with experts to design and execute a customized talent acquisition and recruitment process that delivers exceptional business results. We work as one with your internal team to transform your approach to get the talent you need when you need it.

Read this guide to dive deeper into Recruitment Process Outsourcing.

RPO solutions provide best-practice technology and recruitment strategies within a flexible model to reduce fixed costs. An external TA expert like Cielo delivers significant value, allowing your company to fill positions faster, with higher-quality candidates. All while providing remarkable candidate experiences and an efficient hiring process.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing makes the entire TA process more effective. For example, RPO solutions will enhance your sourcing strategy by:

1. Getting the right messaging to the right people at the right time
2. Using technology that harnesses the power of data
3. Offering flexibility, scale and focus
4. Empowering you to develop a skills-based workforce
5. Providing access to intelligence and sharing expertise

Staffing agencies address immediate problems like sourcing candidates for a specific role or temporary, contract or seasonal positions. They don’t have solutions to improve a company’s overall talent acquisition. 

RPO isn’t for quick fixes or one-off hires. We go all-in with you, embedding our talent experts in your organization, living your values while protecting and promoting your employer brand. Our high-tech meets high-touch approach pairs the industry’s most advanced, integrated technology with important moments of human interaction. You’ll have high-quality candidates at the speed and scale you need them, all while satisfying candidates and hiring managers.

Learn more about the differences between RPO and a staffing agency.

We have five at Cielo:

• Enterprise RPO covers it all: sourcing, interviewing, hiring and onboarding
• Hybrid RPO supports a precise location or business unit; combines your processes with our recruiters
• Project RPO for a specific number of hires in a short timeframe
• Modular RPO uses our TA Optimizers™ to augment your strategy where and when necessary
• High Volume RPO for high-volume hiring at the speed, scale and cost you need without compromise

Explore more about the different RPO business models and their advantages.

Look for 3 things in a top Recruitment Process Outsourcing company:

1. A provider that takes an end-to-end holistic approach to talent acquisition and applies talent science, technology and process to solve recruitment problems
2. Experience in talent acquisition, talent management, digital recruiting technology and organizational consulting
3. A company that views you as a partner, one who will understand your people, workflows, culture, market and industry

Cielo does everything that a top RPO provider should:

1. We’re all about partnership – when you succeed, we succeed
2. We take an end-to-end holistic approach
3. We have more experience in talent and recruiting than any other firm

Then we go beyond that to uncover the talent to drive your business forward. Better experiences and better outcomes – the perks of RPO solutions from Cielo are aplenty. 

Now that you know why to choose Cielo, learn how to make the business case for RPO today. Already working with an RPO provider? Make your switch to Cielo easier with this guide.

There are 5 important steps of a successful RPO implementation:

1. Survey and discovery
2. Organizational buy-in
3. Training and collaborating
4. IT and technology integrations
5. Ensuring lasting change

There are many, but here are the top 10 benefits of working with a Recruitment Process Outsourcing partner:

1. Reduce costs by up to 60%
   Working with a recruitment partner can reduce your cost per hire by 40%-60%. Recruitment Process Outsourcing delivers cost-effective solutions that remove the need for expensive agencies and streamline every aspect of the recruitment process – delivering a higher quality of candidate, faster.
   
   
2. Centralize recruitment function and expertise
   When internal resources are limited, finding the right Recruitment Process Outsourcing partner allows you and your team to focus on other strategic initiatives. Rest easy knowing that you have a centralized recruitment function with skilled experts dedicated to handling your organization’s talent acquisition needs.
   
   
3. Encourage scalability, agility and flexibility
   With inevitable hiring peaks and troughs throughout the year, no internal team is ever the right size year-round. A recruitment partner is uniquely positioned to ensure the immediate flexibility and scalability of world-class recruitment talent to meet shifting demand.
   
   
4. Utilize recruitment technology, tools and management information
   The right recruitment technologies and marketing tools are key to finding the right talent. They enable you to identify and source job seekers, engage passive candidates, reduce time to hire and improve the candidate experience. A recruitment partner gives you the resources, marketing support, and technical expertise that would otherwise come at incremental and often prohibitive costs to your organization.
   
   
5. Boost candidate quality, experience and retention
   A typical in-house recruitment team has a recruiter managing the entire process. This often leads to a decline in candidate quality, experience and ultimately retention due to time constraints and lack of expertise across all hiring stages. By compartmentalizing the recruitment process and providing experts in each function, RPO solutions will optimize candidate quality, experience and retention rates.
   
   
6. Allow HR to do HR and enhance your team’s expertise
   Technology, employer branding, planning, attraction, engagement, assessment and onboarding – only a dedicated business can be the best at it all. The right Recruitment Process Outsourcing partner will allow your team to focus on other business-critical tasks, knowing that recruitment is being managed by dedicated experts. They’ll also make sure your HR team is up to speed on the latest tools and best practices of the trade.
   
   
7. Improve process and efficiencies
   Strategic workforce planning is what high-quality RPO partners do best. The right partner will help rethink how your organization acquires talent and transform your recruitment strategies to better meet objectives. They do this while reducing costs, decreasing time to hire, and creating an enhanced process for candidates and hiring managers.
   
   
8. Decrease time to hire
   Time to hire can be an enormous challenge. Organizations struggle not only to find the right talent but also how to quickly onboard new hires. This impacts both productivity and profitability. Planning, process efficiencies, and a dedicated recruitment team that excels at identifying and overcoming negative influencers all help reduce time to hire.
   
   
9. Develop an employer brand and employer value proposition
   The right partner will help your employer brand achieve powerful results. They can also go further by helping you optimize your approach to save costs and drive greater value across your employee lifecycle, increasing your return on investment as well as your performance.
   
   
10. Added value and innovation
    Engaging with a recruitment partner gives you immediate access to experts who live and breathe best practices – whether in technology, employer branding, planning, attraction, engagement, assessment or onboarding. The best in Recruitment Process Outsourcing will also offer valuable institutional knowledge that’ll improve the quality of your hiring process, reduce risk, enhance retention, and ultimately, give you and your organization a distinct competitive advantage.