Recruitment Process Outsourcing companies in the UK
The continuing growth of the number of RPO companies

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.

The benefits of using the right RPO companies are many, depending upon the current recruitment model that a company is deploying and the challenges they are facing in recruiting the right staff. There is unlikely to have been any investment made in the recruiting tools and resources to move to a direct candidate sourcing model. Both hiring managers and HR will have been managing a large number of agency relationships, so providing that the right recruitment process outsourcing companies in the UK is selected and the transition from in house to service provider is managed effectively there will be numerous benefits. Recruitment outsourcing companies will be able to streamline the recruiting process, reduce the amount of HR and Hiring Manager time spent on the process of recruiting, provide cost savings by utilizing a different charging model, improve the employer brand, increase the number of internal referrals and provide metrics on recruiting activity and success. If the right recruitment outsourcing companies in the UK are selected then all of these benefits can be realized.

cph takes the model a step further. Whilst cph is categorized as a recruitment process outsourcing company in the UK, or a recruitment outsourcing company in the UK, its business model is based on ALL of the recruiter resources required to deliver the service to the client working onsite and engaging directly with the hiring managers. By being totally onsite it is able to truly integrate with the client’s activities and culture, enabling them to qualify candidates more thoroughly, ensuring a better match and ensuring that higher calibre candidates are recruited by their clients more quickly. In addition cph has a unique focus on directly sourcing candidates so its clients’ rarely need to incur the expense of using agencies. RPO companies typically use agencies and negotiate down their fees so that the agencies only present their ‘difficult to place’ candidates so operate a flawed model. The recruitment agencies that are used by ‘traditional’ recruitment outsourcing companies in the UK, will place their best candidates where they get the best fee – not necessarily with the RPO provider’s client. cph directly sources more than 95% of all candidates for its clients.

A further advantage to using cph for your recruitment process outsourcing company in the UK is that first year employee attrition is drastically reduced. cph has a track record of reducing first year attrition by over 60% as a direct result of its on-site recruiters in the UK adopting a direct candidate sourcing approach. Most recruitment process outsourcing companies in the UK do not contract to being measured on reducing first year attrition. Why is that? - because their higher usage of agencies who supply lower quality candidates, for the reasons mentioned above, have a higher percentage of leavers in the first 3-6 months of employment.

Unlike most recruitment outsourcing companies in the UK, cph does not need high volumes of vacancies to make its business model commercially viable for both the client and cph. cph’s model is effective from as few as 25 new hires per year. cph has a track record of working successfully with both ‘start up’, early stage and emerging companies that are only looking to hire 25 in a year, and also working with major corporates that will make up to 1,000 new hires per annum.

Given the need to focus on cost reduction whilst also sourcing higher calibre candidates more quickly. there will continue to be significant growth in the RPO companies market with more recruitment process outsourcing companies in the UKbeing created. More recently there has been a trend in RPO companies providers being created out of recruitment agencies that are looking to change their whole business model. However, only those recruitment outsourcing companies in the UK with a proven track record, who are vendor independent and can truly demonstrate their continuing ability adds significant value to client organisations will continue to thrive for the long term.

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