Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) strategies can take care of all talent acquisition needs or focus on specific positions, particularly have roles that are challenging to fill or require too much time and attention. The service is customizable to adapt to changing needs or growing organizations. Merraine Group® is a trusted leader in RPO for the Life Sciences and related fields.
What is RPO?
RPO or Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a service through which companies outsource all or part of their talent acquisition function to a third party. An RPO team takes complete responsibility for outsourced positions from end to end. Typically, these services include sourcing, screening, assessment, interviewing, candidate management, etc. Customers can choose the full slate of services or select just those that pertain to their needs.
What Are the Advantages of RPO?
RPO can help companies improve efficiencies, offload administrative burdens, and reduce overall spend. It aids in keeping your company fully staffed, reducing the need for overtime and last-minute fill-ins. The best RPOs understand the industry, pertinent talent market, and economic trends and can act as a partner and advisor. It’s a customizable talent acquisition strategy that ensures companies have the talent required to optimize productivity and grow their business. Here are a few reasons organizations turn to RPO:
Reduce Talent Acquisition Costs
Our RPO teams are talent acquisition specialists who have developed efficient processes to ensure success. An RPO consolidates all talent acquisition expenses, saving companies time and money on posting positions to job boards, evaluating resumes, interviewing, and the other details in the talent acquisition process.
Improve Retention
RPO can both reduce the cost of talent acquisition and improve candidate quality. Retention and engagement are significantly enhanced because of the attention to detail RPO brings to the process. An RPO can help to reduce turnover, saving the frustration and expense of replacing poorly matched hires.
Increase Quality of Hires
RPO companies focus first on talent acquisition. They bring the expertise, systems, processes, and technology needed to take on this challenge efficiently and successfully. Talent acquisition is seldom the top priority for managers, and HR is often pulled in many directions. It can be challenging to build an in-house team that is able to give talent acquisition the level of attention it deserves.
Resolve Talent Acquisition Challenges
Positions can go unfilled for much too long, or the opposite issue can arise – the need to fill a role can rise to crisis level, and the hire is rushed. None of the hiring stages are conducted thoroughly enough. The result can be excess turnover, diminished morale, and wasted time and money. RPO introduces a proven, repeatable process that provides consistent, reliable results.
Scale on Demand
RPO enables companies to quickly adapt to changing talent acquisition needs, economic changes, market factors, and talent shortages. Most companies can handle a low to moderate level of hiring. It gets tougher when the company is in growth mode. A new opportunity that can drive substantial revenue for an organization can place an untenable level of stress on the talent acquisition process.
Respond to Opportunities
With RPO services, businesses can ramp up quickly to take on new challenges without missing a beat or distracting their team. Whether the need is a focused search for a high-impact position or to build out an entire business unit, RPO gives provides the necessary resources to get the required talent onboard.
Increase Efficiency
With an RPO provider focused on talent acquisition for an organization, managers and teams have more time to focus on other priorities. Talent acquisition takes a surprising among of time and mental energy from a broad cross-section of an organization
Retain Focus
Administrative or HR staff are expected to coordinate interviews and manage resume sources and decision-makers who must clear their calendar to meet with candidates and discuss hiring decisions with other stakeholders. An RPO strategy allows stakeholders to retain focus on their highest priorities and most pressing tasks.
Reduce Employment Risks
Your RPO team will be up-to-date on current employment laws and regulations no matter where the talent acquisition need. They can help protect companies from risks such as employee misclassification and prevent you from engaging in non-compliant hiring practices. They can help you improve diversity by casting a wider recruiting net and leveraging their experience and technology to ensure you conform to all EEOC standards and meet your diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Who Needs an RPO?
RPO services can be an ideal solution in organizations of all sizes and in many industries. For businesses that simply don’t have the time or resources to dedicate to talent acquisition, RPO can be a game-changer. Companies with no human resources department can find RPO to be a valuable resource, and any HR department will have more time to devote to existing employees.
Why Merraine RPO?
When you partner with a Merraine RPO team, you’ll have an expert working full-time on your recruitment process. Choosing Merraine Group® as your RPO provider gives you the dual advantage of RPO expertise as well as industry focus. Our RPO clients have confidence in our process as well as our acumen in specialized recruiting.
Breadth of Services
In addition to RPO, we offer a variety of talent acquisition services, including such as executive search, interim staffing, training, HR outsourcing, and organizational development, etc. You will have an entire team working on your behalf who are subject matter experts in each of these services as well as the particular disciplines you want us to focus on. They collaborate on your behalf to deliver a solution that meets your needs, exceeds your expectations, and gives you peace of mind.
Service Delivery Options
Merraine is not a one-size-fits-all provider. Our RPO services can be conducted in a variety of ways, including:
- From our offices in 18 cities
- On-Site at your office or facility
- By “dropping a trailer” at your building site
- Through a network of hotels and office suites
All services are coordinated in-house, including drug screening, background verifications, onboarding, training, personnel audits, etc. This helps prevent delays and miscommunication to ensure an accurate and efficient process.
Scalable RPO Solutions
Merraine RPO Services provide an effective solution for as few as a dozen people, up to 1,000 people or more. We have the bandwidth to handle larger projects as well. Every RPO has a Team Lead, a lead recruiter, a lead researcher, and a DB Manager assigned to the project. They report up to a member of our Senior Leadership Team who will only handle one RPO at a time to ensure quality and effective oversight.
Get Started With Merraine Group® RPO
If you would like to learn more about RPO services at Merraine Group®, contact one of our RPO specialists today.
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