ManpowerGroup White Paper Advises on Best Practices in Recruitment Process Outsourcing

 In ManpowerGroup’s newly released white paper, “What You Should Look for in an RPO,” the company advises that organizations outsource or transfer at least a portion of their recruitment processes to third-party recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers. Such a shift is becoming vital due to the ever-present skills shortage and talent mismatching.

“Today, companies face the difficult task of executing their strategies in an increasingly competitive and uncertain business environment. Narrower margins and compressed business cycles have become the norm, while the challenge to fill open positions with qualified hires persists,” said Kate Donovan, president of ManpowerGroup’s Global Recruitment Process Outsourcing Practice. “This means that successful execution of long-term talent strategies, ones that help attract, develop and retain the right talent, becomes much more critical for organizations who want to maintain their competitive advantage.”

ManpowerGroup suggests that organizations must look beyond traditional service agreements and processes and partner with RPO providers with specific expertise. Successful RPOs anticipate trends while understanding how they are shaped within the marketplace, thus assisting their clients with access to the best in global and local talent. ManpowerGroup adds that top RPO providers use state-of-the-art recruitment technologies and know how to use data from multiple sources to keep decision makers fully informed.

Competent RPOs also speed up the implementation of the best recruitment solutions at the lowest cost. Using RPOs allows organizations to refocus their resources on strategic initiatives. The white paper also qualifies the best RPO providers as supplying clients with long-term solutions that adapt to the evolving workforce and an uncertain economy.