As a company entering into a partnership with an RPO service provider for the first time, your HR team and RPO partner must have a solid working relationship from the get-go. Handing a large part or the entirety of your recruitment operations to an outsourced entity can be a daunting move. Companies might choose to undertake RPO services for several reasons. However, no matter the reasoning, the result is often the same, i.e., change. This can be difficult at times. You might be afraid that you may lose control.

Having said that, being cautious of change is nothing out of the ordinary; it’s human nature. The foundation of this relationship will determine how well the partnership functions and to what degree it flourishes. To help you overcome some of the more common obstacles, here are our top five tips for building a strong working relationship between your HR team and the RPO service provider.

Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) companies that want to succeed in 2022 need to go the extra mile when they provide their services. Not only will they have to deal with competition in their industry but also tackle the issue of talent shortages. All this needs to be handled while keeping the costs down. To attain RPO success going further into this year, firms will need to innovate. They will need to pivot their plans to work with a more hybrid model of sorts. However, issues like rising levels of inflation, the threat of another pandemic, talent scarcity are all obstacles that will have to be overcome as well.

In this blog, we will talk about a few different solutions that RPO agencies can adopt to overcome the aforementioned challenges. It should be noted that these solutions are geared towards attaining RPO success as we go into this year. Keep in mind that the facts and numbers in this article stem from a research report / webinar done by the Everest Group titled, “5 Success-driving Actions GBS Organizations Need in 2022”.

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution states that evolution in itself happens through natural selection. Changes happen over a period of time to help the subject adapt to the environment or extinguish it completely for the sake of the environment. If there is one thing that we can say for certain, especially over the past 3 years, it is that the job market has seen massive changes, regardless of geography. With the onslaught of wave after wave of Covid-19 across the globe, the world essentially got frozen into place economically speaking. 

Here’s the thing with evolution though, if you don’t keep moving forward, you begin to regress, and isn’t that exactly what happened with our economies? If we take Canada for instance, in recent times the country has seen a huge demand for skilled workers since things started opening up again. This presented an issue though. Although there was a demand for roles to be filled and even though there were candidates to fill said roles, the two did not always meet in the middle. It isn’t necessarily the best fit, not until you consider RPO agencies and the talent solutions that come with it.