Many organizations consider Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) a solution only for large organizations with ongoing hiring needs. However, with Project RPO, organizations of any size, even those with a short-term hiring need, can take advantage of the value an RPO solution can deliver. By partnering with Wilson to deliver on your hiring needs, the quality of hire will improve while providing a scalable answer to your hiring challenges. If the following signs sound like your organization, Project RPO might be your solution!
1. Lacking bandwidth
Your team doesn’t have the capacity to handle high-volume hiring – and you’re tasked with fast problem-solving to address it. Many recruiting teams have experienced right-sizing over the last 24 months. As hiring is picking up, some organizations are challenged with having the internal resources to support their needs.
2. Differing candidate experiences
You have different job requisitions, whether exempt or non-exempt, professional or manufacturing, or both. These distinct business areas require specific expertise to ensure the candidate is managed appropriately through the process and that you deliver on their needs. By partnering with a Project RPO expert, you will have the market knowledge of what candidates are looking for in an experience and their next role and the ability to create an agile process to support this.
3. Needing scalable, temporary support (3-12 months)
While your project may be defined at the beginning, you need flexibility from a partner to expand into different services as required on a modular basis. Business needs can change daily or weekly. Having a partner dedicated to supporting your hiring needs, with vast expertise across geographies and skillsets, creates a valuable approach that will ensure delivery of all your organizational hiring needs – regardless of how often it changes!
4. You need to hire in a new market and haven’t developed the internal expertise yet
As organizations continue to expand and enter new markets, there is time required to ramp up your local market knowledge and successfully hire the right people with the right skills. With a Project RPO partner, this expertise comes ready to use. It will decrease the time to enter a new market and create a foundation for your internal team as they move forward in supporting your business expansions.
5. You need to hire a high volume of talent with similar skills
Whether you are opening a new call center, launching a new fulfillment location, or adding a new team to the organization, the effort to recruit and engage the talent needed can be complex and time-consuming. Bringing in a partner to help mitigate the chaos of a launch while building your team to manage steady state offers a solution that fits immediate and long-term business needs.
6. Can’t afford any disruptions to day-to-day operations
You need a team ramped up and ready to augment your function for a designated period to ensure you can deliver the talent your operations need without slowing them down. Disruptions can be costly and, in the worst case, bring business to a halt in the impacted area. This can be avoided by supplementing your recruiting team to ensure zero impact on ongoing operations.
7. You have a budget and need to stick to it
Most budgets will not support hiring talent acquisition headcount for project-based or short-term hiring needs. By augmenting your team with a Project RPO partner, you can mitigate cost complexities by paying for the services you need and stopping the services when your talent needs have been met. Committing to ongoing headcount costs for short-term projects will wreak havoc on your budget and decrease employee engagement as the project ramps down and they have no work to keep them busy.
8. You must deliver talent for your organization and do it yesterday
This is always the case. However, some projects are more critical to business success than others, and having an agile partner to support your hiring needs can mean the difference between success and escalations.
If any of these scenarios sound like what is happening in your organization, reach out and schedule a consultation!
