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Recruitment Outsourcing: A Strategic RPO Guide

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  • How to unlock a seamless flow of talent data and insights

  • The best way to optimize every stakeholder’s experience

  • Different ways to get more from your technology stack

  • Elevate your entire talent function with RPO

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In a crowded market, how can you choose the right Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) solution that will meet your needs? What are the right questions to ask potential talent partners when assessing best-fit options for your organization?

The wrong decision can mean increased costs, wasted resources, and poor hiring outcomes. But a reputable RPO partner can help you find the right people and skills at speed, optimize every stakeholder’s experience, and get the most out of talent acquisition (TA) technology. Best-in-class RPO partners will go a step further, elevating your entire TA function to unleash the potential of your organization.  

Not all talent partners, however, can deliver the impact you need. The Ultimate Guide to Recruitment Process Outsourcing is designed to assist HR, talent acquisition, and procurement leaders in understanding what to look for when assessing RPO providers.

We’ll show you what to look for in a talent partner, how to assess their fit for your organization, and what success looks like.

Getting the Right People and Skills at Speed

Whether you're looking to elevate one part of your hiring process or all of it, you need a flexible and agile approach that helps you hire the right people with the right skills—fast. 

The right RPO partner will help you navigate the complex and unpredictable talent market. They will equip you with skills-based hiring models and other recruitment strategies to attract, qualify, and secure the top talent you need with consistency, accuracy, and speed.

Three of the most effective levers for achieving these goals are:

  1. Establishing a seamless flow of talent data and insights to enable better hiring decisions.
  2. Implementing skills-based hiring practices which ensure only the best-fit talent moves forward.
  3. Flexible recruitment services designed to bridge specific gaps in your hiring process.

A Seamless Flow of Talent Data and Insights 

Korn Ferry Nimble Recruit—our AI talent platform—combines candidate, market, and Korn Ferry-owned data and insights to inform talent decisions with precision. It gives recruiters the competitive edge to not only source talent, but make sure the talent is the right fit for your business. The seamless flow of data creates a faster end-to-end process from sourcing, assessing, securing, and developing talent. Simply put, you get the right people and skills at speed.

Think of Nimble Recruit as your one-stop RPO technology solution. It’s immediately scalable, data-driven, helps you find and secure the right people, and accelerates time to hire for volume, early career, and professional roles.

Skills-based organizations are 107% more likely to place talent effectively and almost twice as likely to retain high performers.

Delivering More Than Skills-Based Hiring 

Skills-based organizations are 107% more likely to place talent effectively and almost twice as likely to retain high performers.

Korn Ferry’s RPO solution helps businesses implement skills-based hiring by identifying critical skills, creating Success Profiles, and matching candidates accordingly.

To achieve sustainable growth, organizations also need to look beyond their immediate needs. Hiring based on future potential involves seeking candidates who might not possess all the necessary skills today but demonstrate significant promise for growth and adaptability.

Flexible Recruitment Services for Any RPO Need  

Hiring agility—the power to flex and scale your talent acquisition—becomes crucial in an environment where manual processes have proven ineffective.   

If you want to test the waters with an RPO provider, scale quickly, or bridge specific gaps in your recruitment strategy, partial process outsourcing might be the answer. Korn Ferry’s Flexible Recruitment Services reduce your burden while streamlining processes, reducing risk, and delivering better results. You can use as few or as many flexible recruitment services as you need.

Optimizing Every Stakeholder's Experience and Safeguarding Employer Branding

Your RPO solution should enable you to connect the candidate experience to your EVP and position you as a preferred employer.

While some organizations may believe the candidate experience doesn’t matter so long as hiring outcomes are achieved, this is short-sighted.

Your RPO solution should enable you to connect the candidate experience to your EVP and position you as a preferred employer.

Korn Ferry safeguards your employer brand through superior recruitment marketing and candidate care that faithfully represents your culture and values. By seamlessly connecting onboarding, employee experience, employee development and retention, we help our clients to win and retain the people who make their business a success.

But it’s not just about the candidates. By integrating AI, automation, and analytics with your existing recruitment technology, we help:

  • Reduce the time hiring managers spend on manual tasks and make sure they have the data and insights at their fingertips to see progress.  
  • Cut down recruiters’ sourcing and screening time, automate their marketing, and match candidates faster.

Get More from Your Tech Stack

The right recruitment technology can be a game-changer. It can boost cost effectiveness, enable flexibility and scalability, improve candidate care, optimize the recruiter and hiring manager experience, accelerate hiring, and integrate seamlessly with existing investments.

Look for an RPO partner who can help simplify, augment, and optimize technology in your hiring process, working with the stack you have, or blending it with their own to maximize the outcomes of your investment and help you flex and scale. Where you want to leverage the tech you already have, your RPO partner should be on hand to advise and support you in maximizing its full potential.

With Korn Ferry, you're not just getting the best fit-for-purpose tech; you're optimizing it and achieving maximum ROI on an ongoing basis.

Enhance Your Talent Acquisition Impact with TA Technology Consulting 

Partnering with Korn Ferry means you can cut through the noise of an overwhelming technology market and simplify your tech stack for optimum results; today and tomorrow. Our technology consultants: 

  • Work with you to identify where you need to optimize hiring processes 
  • Help you get the best out of the tech you already have  
  • Understand the new tech you need to get the outcomes you want 
  • Help ensure effective implementation and integration with your ATS and other tools 
  • Ensure lasting impact by offering change management support to make sure your TA technology solutions are launched and utilized correctly 
  • Help you combine employee and market data to secure talent more effectively long-term—including gaining access to a wider candidate pool and smart assessments

Elevate Your Entire TA Function with Korn Ferry Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Unleash the potential of your individual employees, your teams and the entire organization with Korn Ferry. 

With Korn Ferry, you get more than RPO. You get a total talent partner committed to analyzing your current hiring process, seeing what can be done better, and helping you plug gaps to manage change more effectively, so that you can unleash potential across your leaders, teams, and the entire organization. 

Your Total Talent Partner

Drawing on 50 years of people science, Korn Ferry RPO offers unparalleled forecasting and sophisticated, AI-enabled technology to deliver both cost-efficiency and higher quality of hires. Whether you need modular services or full RPO support, we are your strategic partner in developing your TA strategy, identifying the skillsets you need to achieve your goals, and building the right tech-enabled plan to get there. 

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Transform, scale, and elevate your end-to-end talent process with RPO. Download the full Ultimate Guide to Recruitment Process Outsourcing to learn more about choosing the right talent partner.

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