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An RPO partner for the mid-market

An RPO partner for the mid-market

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Whether you’re a rapidly growing startup, stable mid-size organization, or established tech giant, you need talent to drive your business forward. And sourcing, recruiting, and hiring talent requires a robust talent acquisition (TA) team.

Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) companies have historically prioritized working with large companies requiring talent for thousands of roles.

But even businesses—like mid-size organizations—that hire for hundreds of roles would benefit from a partner that can source, schedule interviews, hire, and onboard talent. An RPO partnership is even more paramount for mid-size businesses with multi-country reach.

RPO companies have begun addressing the mid-market, and savvy mid-size corporations are taking advantage. Now that RPO options are available for the mid-market, more and more organizations are partnering with global companies such as Hudson RPO to achieve their talent goals in a scalable, more cost-effective manner.

Let’s explore the many reasons mid-markets are working with RPO providers.

“We worked with Hudson RPO on a unique project, to ramp up hiring when our recruiting team was lean on experience for this particular skillset. We struggled with finding high-quality candidates in our niche industry, but the team at Hudson was not only able to fill our pipeline quickly, they filled it with perfect-match candidates. Their project RPO service made it possible to hire fast and gave our team time to prioritize other initiatives.” – head of procurement in life sciences

Why the mid-market needs an RPO partner

Once RPO providers started tailoring services for the mid-market, mid-size companies jumped at the opportunity to leverage the RPO teams’ unique expertise and flexible options. This is especially true of organizations that are in multiple countries, or have multi-country aspiratons… Have you considered an RPO yet?

Here are a few reasons mid-market organizations have embraced RPO (and why you should, too):

  1. RPO providers have unmatched expertise. They have worked with dozens of clients spanning multiple industries—at Hudson RPO, those include government, tech, pharma, and more. This wealth of experience gives RPO teams deep knowledge. An RPO has likely sourced quality candidates for similar roles and in like industries, so they know what you need.
  2. Flexibility allows you to scale. Talent needs ebb and flow—RPO providers get it. They allow you to scale up or down based on your recruitment needs, so you don’t have to lay off a team of recruiters when hiring slows or pay for a fully staffed in-house team with no work for months. Flexible options like project RPO are the best ways to remain agile as hiring needs change.
  3. RPO providers give you back time. Whether it’s sourcing talent, scheduling interviews, or updating your applicant tracking system (ATS), these tedious tasks steal valuable time from your recruiters. RPO partners take the admin duties off your plate so you can focus on more high-priority work.
  4. RPO offers a more cost-effective approach. When you partner with an RPO provider, they work with you to streamline processes and use recruitment technologies that increase overall efficiency and minimize costs. They also eliminate the need for costly tech subscriptions or full-time salaries for extra headcount. Whether an applicant tracking system (ATS) or onboarding software, RPOs use the latest tech to cut costs.
  5. They create a superior candidate experience. Creating a memorable candidate experience involves constant tweaking, analysis, and strategy—many mid-size TA teams lack the bandwidth. When you choose the right RPO partner, they’ll manage the candidate experience from interviewing to consistent communication to their new hire onboarding.
  6. RPO is fully customizable. Your recruiting needs aren’t one-size-fits-all—neither is RPO. Whether you need support on a one-off project, want long-term assistance, or only need to offload sourcing candidates, RPO lets you customize based on your needs.

Finding the right RPO partner

With so many RPO providers out there, it can be overwhelming to partner with the right RPO, especially if you’re a mid-market company that wants to work with a company that understands your unique challenges.

But if you’re looking for that partner, you’ve come to the right place. Hudson RPO is the answer for neglected mid-size companies looking for support as they ramp up hiring. Contact us today to learn more.

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Hudson RPO Acquires Executive Solutions

Hudson RPO Acquires Executive Solutions

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Expands Footprint in the Middle East

Old Greenwich, Conn., March 12, 2024 – Hudson RPO, a leading global total talent solutions company owned by Hudson Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSON), announced today it is expanding its global presence with the acquisition of Executive Solutions, a Dubai-based talent solutions company. With the entry into the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Hudson RPO is strongly equipped to serve talent acquisition functions with volume hiring in the rapidly growing Middle East region. The acquisition is expected to close later this month.

Established in 2008, Executive Solutions has a proven track record of assisting organizations in finding and placing the best candidates for a wide range of roles across industries. Executive Solutions is adept at the outsourcing of both long- and short-term volume recruitment, rapid growth projects, special projects, overseas campaigns, and Emiratization.

“The team at Executive Solutions is well known in the region for providing outstanding results for companies that see a competitive advantage in broadening their presence in the Middle East,” said Jacob Zabkowicz, Global CEO of Hudson RPO. “This acquisition will give our clients across the globe confidence that we can find and place the best talent in the UAE and the Middle East region for their strategic business needs.  We look forward to working with the deeply experienced and well-regarded Executive Solutions team to serve our combined client base on a global scale.”

“Hudson RPO is a globally known and well-respected firm, and we are anxious to bring our regional expertise to enhance the outstanding results clients have come to know and expect,” said Executive Solutions’ Founder and CEO, James Watfa.

Following the completion of the acquisition, Executive Solutions will be named “Executive Solutions: A Hudson RPO company.”

About Hudson RPO

Hudson RPO is a leading global provider of flexible and scalable total talent solutions.  At Hudson RPO, people, process, and technology come together to ignite transformative change at mid-market and enterprise-level organizations worldwide. Taking a consultative and collaborative approach, we partner with talent acquisition, HR, and procurement leaders around the globe to build diverse, high-impact teams and drive business success. Learn more at hudsonrpo.com.


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612 309-3957 / [email protected]

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The Hudson RPO Content Team is made up of experts within the Talent Acquisition industry across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. They provide educational and critical business insights in the form of research reports, articles, news, videos, podcasts, and more. The team ensures high-quality content that helps all readers make talent decisions with confidence.

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RPO partnerships 101 with Carla

RPO partnerships 101 with Carla

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Navigating RPO partnerships can be complex, especially when faced with a variety of new professionals coming in to support your solution. Our talent expert, Carla, has put together the RPO 101 series to help you navigate the RPO landscape and find the right provider. In this blog, she discusses five professionals you might encounter as part of your RPO partnership.

Talent Sourcers

Talent Sourcers are the detectives of the recruitment world. They specialise in proactively identifying and engaging talent, scouring diverse channels, including social media, professional networks, and industry events. With a keen eye for talent, they play a vital role in building a pipeline of qualified candidates, ensuring a robust talent pool for your current and future hiring needs.

Recruitment Coordinators

Recruitment Coordinators are the unsung heroes who keep the hiring process running smoothly. They handle the logistics of the recruitment process, from scheduling interviews to coordinating communication between candidates and hiring managers. Their organisational skills are instrumental in creating a positive candidate and hiring manager experience and maintaining an efficient workflow.

Recruitment Specialists

Recruitment Specialists bring expertise to the table, understanding the nuances of the industry and the specific hiring needs of the organisation. They collaborate closely with hiring managers to define job requirements, screen candidates, and ensure that the recruitment strategy aligns with the company’s goals. Their in-depth knowledge helps you align the recruitment process to strategic goals, while staying ahead of the competition.

Hudson RPO Technology Committee

The Hudson RPO Technology Committee comprises tech-savvy professionals dedicated to leveraging innovative tools and platforms. They stay abreast of the latest advancements in recruitment technology, ensuring that the RPO partnership benefits from cutting-edge solutions. Their role is to optimise processes, enhance efficiency, and implement technology-driven strategies for effective talent acquisition.

Implementation Experts

Implementation Experts play a pivotal role in the early stages of an RPO partnership. They guide the integration of the RPO solution into the client’s existing infrastructure, ensuring a seamless transition. These professionals collaborate with internal teams to understand workflows, ensure effective change management and communications throughout. They set the foundation for a successful partnership.

Operations Team

The Operations team serves as the backbone of the RPO partnership, overseeing day-to-day activities and ensuring the delivery of high-quality recruitment services. From managing candidate pipelines to optimising recruitment processes, the Operations team focuses on sustained efficiency, consistently meeting and exceeding client expectations.

Learn more about RPO partnerships

In the world of Recruitment Process Outsourcing, success is a team effort. The professionals involved, from Talent Sourcers to the Operations team, collectively contribute to creating a streamlined, efficient, and effective talent acquisition process. Do you want to learn more about RPO partnerships? Click here to get in touch, or click here to download our guide.

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The Hudson RPO Content Team is made up of experts within the Talent Acquisition industry across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. They provide educational and critical business insights in the form of research reports, articles, news, videos, podcasts, and more. The team ensures high-quality content that helps all readers make talent decisions with confidence.

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RPO services terminology 101: with talent expert Carla

RPO services terminology 101: with talent expert Carla

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To help you decipher what to focus on when comparing providers and exploring recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions, our talent expert Carla, has crafted the RPO 101 series. Building upon her comprehensive guide to RPO terminology, this follow-up delves into the commonly-used terminology associated with RPO solutions to help you explore and understand what type of partnership is right for you.

End-to-end recruitment

Full lifecycle, or end-to-end recruitment, is a strategic solution that allows your business leaders to focus on their core business goals, leaving talent acquisition in the expert hands of their trusted RPO team. Designed to be proactive and efficient, the recruitment process is managed from start to finish, ensuring every hiring decision aligns with long-term strategic objectives. It operates seamlessly across regions or globally, providing a robust framework for hiring that is both agile and comprehensive.

Candidate screening & assessment

Candidate screening is a pivotal stage in the recruitment process that involves assessing applicants to determine their suitability for a specific role. This process includes evaluating resumes, conducting initial interviews, and utilising assessment tools to gauge qualifications and cultural fit. Effective candidate screening ensures that only the most qualified individuals progress through the hiring process, streamlining the overall recruitment journey.

Talent advisory

Under talent advisory or talent consulting, your company gains a supportive partner adept at connecting hiring data to help make informed decisions about your talent function. Talent advisors delve into recruitment metrics, analysing elements such as employee turnover, employer brand reach, workforce engagement, and candidate drop-off points in the hiring funnel. This comprehensive analysis leads to the recommendation of targeted strategies to address challenges and seize opportunities.

Talent sourcing

Talent sourcing or candidate sourcing involves the proactive identification and engagement of potential candidates, often before specific job openings arise. Usually, talent sourcing focuses on ‘passive’ or ‘hidden talent’, talent that may not be actively looking for new opportunities. Recruiters leverage various channels, including social media, professional networks, and industry events, to identify candidates, cultivate relationships and build robust pipelines of talent.

Talent pooling

Talent pooling is a strategic approach to talent acquisition where recruiters continually engage and nurture relationships with potential qualified candidates. By maintaining an active talent pool, organisations can efficiently fill roles when needed, reducing time-to-hire and ensuring access to a pre-qualified pool of candidates. Talent expert Tom has shared his insights on talent pooling here.

Employer Value Proposition (EVP)

Employer Value Proposition (EVP) encapsulates an organisation’s unique talent offering across benefits, values, and culture to attract and retain top talent. In today’s competitive job market, crafting a compelling EVP is essential, and RPO partners play a pivotal role in articulating and enhancing it to align with effective recruitment strategies.

Employer branding

Employer branding is the process of shaping and promoting your organisation’s image as an employer of choice. It extends beyond attracting top talent to fostering a positive and engaging work environment. A robust employer branding strategy enhances your company’s reputation, making it a preferred destination for both current and potential employees.

DE&I advisory

DE&I advisory is a specialised service aimed at supporting company diversity goals and fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the recruitment process. Beyond identifying best practice DE&I sourcing channels, this advisory service is dedicated to removing bias from the selection and assessment processes. This approach ensures that organisation not only attract diverse talent but also create an inclusive and equitable hiring environment.

Recruitment technology

A recruitment technology suite that’s right for your unique business underpins effective strategy. Many RPO providers will offer recruitment technology advice and implementation as part of their service offering. This could include Applicant Tracker Systems (ATS), to recruitment chatbots, and AI-enabled screening and assessment tools. Our Tech & Innovation committee regularly reviews and evaluates new technology so they can provide expert advice to clients on selecting the right tech solution for their needs. Get to know them here.

Keen to know more?

Continue your journey into the realm of RPO with Carla’s RPO 101 series. Click here to understand the most commonly used RPO terminology, or get to know the roles of the professionals involved in an RPO partnership. Want to talk more about RPO? Click here to get in touch.

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The Hudson RPO Content Team is made up of experts within the Talent Acquisition industry across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. They provide educational and critical business insights in the form of research reports, articles, news, videos, podcasts, and more. The team ensures high-quality content that helps all readers make talent decisions with confidence.

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RPO terminology 101 with talent expert Carla

RPO terminology 101 with talent expert Carla

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Navigating the world of outsourced recruitment solutions can be a daunting task, especially when your search is met with myriad industry jargon. To help you decipher what to focus on when comparing providers and exploring recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions, our talent expert Carla has put together an ‘RPO terminology 101’ guide.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

RPO stands for recruitment process outsourcing. It is a business model whereby a company outsources the management of its recruitment function either in whole or in part. These solutions are customised to address specific needs, encompassing tasks ranging from sourcing and shortlisting to interviewing and onboarding, as well as strategic initiatives such as employer branding. RPO models are unique from other recruitment solutions in the way they extend beyond hiring alone; they are strategic, long-term partnerships that drive cost, quality and efficiency benefits.

Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)

Because RPO solutions are customised solutions based on your unique goals and requirements, RPO providers often work with Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) to set the partnership up for success. SLAs are formal agreements that outline the expectations and standards for service delivery between you and your RPO provider.

RPO models

There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all RPO model. Any model you implement needs to be carefully customised based on a deep understanding of your business needs, organisational capability, culture, and costs. As a baseline, different RPO models exist. They often vary by level of involvement, scale and what stage of the recruitment process they address. For example:

  • Project RPO
    Project RPO is an RPO model wherein a team of experts are engaged to manage specific projects or hiring initiatives within a designated time frame. Designed for quick implementation and ease of delivery, this model is ideal for companies that need to fill multiple roles across numerous regions and global markets at once. For example, an expansion into a new territory or the launch of a new product.
  • Enterprise RPO
    Another type of RPO model is the Enterprise RPO solution. An Enterprise RPO solution looks after the complete end-to-end recruitment process, taking care of every piece of the talent puzzle – attracting candidates, screening and assessing them, scheduling interviews, offer negotiations and onboarding colleagues, monitoring compliance, and conducting exit interviews.
  • On-demand RPO
    As the name suggests this model is when you need to rapidly scale your recruitment team to meet short-term demand.  An RPO can swiftly deploy a team of talent experts to support companies for any recruitment-related need in a short time frame including sourcing, recruiting, screening, interviewing or technology.

Recruitment Technology

Recruitment Technology refers to the tools and software that enhance various aspects of the hiring process. This includes applicant tracking systems, video interviewing platforms, AI-driven candidate screening, and more. RPO solutions often leverage a customised tech stack to optimise these technologies depending on the partnership.

Scalable RPO solutions

When exploring RPO solutions, you’ll often find scalability mentioned as a benefit. In RPO solutions, scalability and flexibility refer to the ability to scale your partnership up and down as your business needs change. As your hiring demands rise and fall, you can seamlessly expand or reduce temporary recruitment headcount as needed.

Continue your journey into the realm of RPO with Carla’s RPO 101 series. Click here to understand the different lingo of RPO services, or get to know the roles of the professionals involved in an RPO partnership. Want to talk more about RPO? Click here to get in touch.

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The Hudson RPO Content Team is made up of experts within the Talent Acquisition industry across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. They provide educational and critical business insights in the form of research reports, articles, news, videos, podcasts, and more. The team ensures high-quality content that helps all readers make talent decisions with confidence.

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Hudson RPO Enhances Executive Search Offering

Hudson RPO Enhances Executive Search Offering

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Old Greenwich, Conn. Feb. 26, 2024 – Hudson RPO, a long-time global leader in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), today announced it is enhancing its executive search offering.

The offering is currently being launched in North America and will expand into EMEA by the end of the year. With Hudson RPO’s recent acquisition of Hudson Singapore Search, the firm will have a global footprint in executive search.

“Clients rely on Hudson RPO for their high-volume hiring needs and trust our ability to offer superior results throughout the talent acquisition process, from sourcing and engaging to hiring and onboarding,” said Hudson RPO Global Chief Executive Jake Zabkowicz. “We are pleased to expand and enhance our offering in the executive search space. This will further our ability to become a core strategic partner for our clients as we assist them in putting the right people in place to develop and execute a winning business strategy.”

To ensure a best-in-class experience for clients, Hudson RPO is in the process of onboarding several veteran executive search professionals to assist clients in identifying, attracting and retaining the best leaders.

Our executive search offering, coupled with our robust existing RPO strategy, gives clients a holistic approach to talent acquisition. This allows them to streamline and centralize their hiring strategy by using a flexible and scalable total talent solution."

About Hudson RPO

Hudson RPO is a leading global provider of flexible and scalable total talent solutions.  At Hudson RPO, people, process, and technology come together to ignite transformative change at mid-market and enterprise-level organizations worldwide. Taking a consultative and collaborative approach, we partner with talent acquisition, HR, and procurement leaders around the globe to build diverse, high-impact teams and drive business success. Learn more at hudsonrpo.com.

Contact:

Tracy Kurschner
[email protected]
612.309.3957

Hudson RPO

Content Team

The Hudson RPO Content Team is made up of experts within the Talent Acquisition industry across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. They provide educational and critical business insights in the form of research reports, articles, news, videos, podcasts, and more. The team ensures high-quality content that helps all readers make talent decisions with confidence.

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