RPO 101: Beginners Guide to How An RPO Works

Have you heard the acronym RPO thrown around before, but you aren’t sure what it stands for or how it works? No need to worry, Skywalk Group is here to help. Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a special area of recruiting in which an external provider, like Skywalk Group, acts as the company’s internal recruiter. It’s one of the fastest-growing recruiting solutions in the nation due to its highly customizable approach to sourcing, screening, and recruiting potential candidates. There are several different levels of outsourcing:

Project Basis

Outsourcing on a project basis is done when you only need help recruiting new employees for a certain period of time. It is also called one-time outsourcing, since it relates to a specific need and not a continuing recruiting service.

Hybrid Basis

Hybrid basis RPO is exactly what it sounds like – a mixture of outsourcing recruitment and having an in-house recruitment team. It usually happens when the in-house recruitment team is inundated with work and need a helping hand – whether due to peaks of recruitment demand, technical complexity of the roles or any number of other reasons.

Full RPO

You got it – full RPO is when the client outsources all recruitment. In this case, the outsourced team manages end-to-end recruitment solutions for all roles across the board.

In all the previously mentioned cases, the client gets a complete list of suitable candidates and retains control of the ultimate hiring decision. If you think recruitment process outsourcing is the right choice for your business, contact Skywalk Group today.