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RPO, or recruitment process outsourcing, is becoming increasingly popular as the pressure to focus on core business activities and the ‘time to fill’ roles increases. Cost savings are now also high on the agenda for most companies. RPO is not the answer to all recruitment related issues - simply outsourcing recruiting to an RPO provider will not be a quick fix. Over time it will help streamline a company’s recruiting process and, if the right RPO provider is selected, then also reduce recruiting expenditure. The ‘time to fill’ vacancies and interview to offer ratios will also improve. Read More...

Enter the words first year attrition in to any of the traditional search engines and you will notice a lack of results - aside from universities and some of the more discerning education establishments who, in order to determine how successful their courses are, have first year attrition as a Key Performance Indicator. Read More...

A growing number of large organisations are evaluating the use of interim recruiters, or contract recruiters. This is understandable given that an internal recruiting capability can add huge value to a company and a large corporate does not necessarily have to go down the outsourced recruitment or RPO route. Read More...

cph and RPO go hand-in-hand – they provide a fully in-sourced direct recruiting solution to companies predominantly within the mid-market sector and also to ‘early stage’ and emerging, high growth companies – typically referred to as the SME, or Small to Medium Sized Enterprise space. Read More...

Recruiting is evolving and with it the desire to use agencies is diminishing through an increase of internal recruiting. It is being widely recognized that having an internal recruiting capability can add huge value to a company, if it is run properly. Read More...

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) has been readily adopted over the past decade by multi-nationals and large corporates that are typically recruiting 1,000+ new staff every year; what about RPO for the SME?. Those in the SME (Small to Medium Sized Enterprise), or SMB (Small to Medium Sized Businesses) category, which collectively employ nearly 14 million people and are responsible for almost 50% of UK GDP. Read More...

The number one topic on most HR executives’ agendas is how to attract quality talent whilst reducing recruitment costs. But what is the cost associated with recruiting? How can an organization reduce its recruiting costs? Read More...

With the need to reduce recruiting costs yet still have access to a quality candidate pool there has been a surge in the demand for the services of RPO companies. Following on from the trend in the US where outsourcing non-core business activities - IT, back office, HR - recruitment process outsourcing companies have grown and now provide services in the UK and globally to an increasing number of companies. Read More...

The definition of ‘RPO’ according to the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association is as follows:- "Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is when a provider acts as a company's internal recruitment function for a portion or all of its jobs. Read More...