RPO – For All Your Recruitment Solutions

Recruitment Process Outsourcing or RPO is a business type of outsourcing whereby companies turn over all or some of its recruitment functions to an external service provider. RPO can provide a perfect solution to corporate and even smaller companies by taking off their burden of 'head-hunting' for the best available recruits.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing or RPO is a business type of outsourcing whereby companies turn over all or some of its recruitment functions to an external service provider. RPO can provide a perfect solution to corporate and even smaller companies by taking off their burden of 'head-hunting' for the best available recruits. Companies are usually at a loss when it comes to the assessment and selection of the right candidates especially when they aspire to build a large pool of talent within a short span of time. An RPO organization comes to the rescue at this point and plays the role of a recruiting and consulting firm. It can help by recognizing the right talent for the corporation.

According to the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association (RPOA), the official definition is: "Recruitment Process Outsourcing is when a provider acts as a company's internal recruitment function for a portion or all of its jobs. RPO providers manage the entire recruiting/hiring process from job profiling through the on-boarding of the new hire, including staff, technology, method and reporting. A properly managed RPO will improve a company's time to hire, increase the quality of the candidate pool, provide verifiable metrics, reduce cost and improve governmental compliance."

The primary role of RPO service provider is to manage all recruitment matters ranging from personal profiling to short listing of candidates. It is a role similar to a typical Human Resource Department. Under the agreement with the company, it also has the right and authority to increase the recruitment time, improve the quality of candidates, have demonstrable metrics available, reduce overheads and enhance legal compliance.

An RPO organization is driven by the basic philosophy that the business companies should concentrate on their core competencies i.e. to attract and retain the customers; while everything else, from employing the accountants to the cleaners should be left on an RPO firm. Moreover, workforce can be procured at the best value when recruited through an RPO company.

Professional HR firms that offer RPO have defined process and programs to ensure a proper fusion between the host company and the RPO provider. And confidentiality and timeliness are assured with proper processes. RPO offers improvement in quality, cost, service and speed. RPO solutions can also change fixed investment costs into variable costs that vary with fluctuation in recruitment activity. Companies may pay by transaction rather than by staff member, thus avoiding under-utilization or forcing costly layoffs of recruitment staff when activity is low.

This is why RPO makes such great sense for businesses because you can outsource some of the process or all of the process - whatever works best for your business. With a professional HR company handling all aspects of this function, your business can focus its efforts on the core competencies it has become known for - assured that its internal HR process will be handled properly.

WHR Solutions offers your business recruitment with a difference. WHR Solutions specialises in Recruitment Process Outsourcing and Independent Consulting and place emphasis on quality, ownership and transparency; ultimately leading to the merging of clients with the perfect candidates and vice versa, and with a great degree of cost effectiveness. For the best RPO solutions in Australia, please visit the site http://www.whrsolutions.com.au.

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