Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)
Our recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions are designed to revitalise your talent strategy. We bring you talent analytics tools, the latest recruitment technology, innovative sourcing strategies, inclusive solutions and unrivalled access to talent.
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Your RPO recruitment partner
At Reed Talent Solutions, we deliver flexible, data-driven RPO services that streamline your recruitment and reduce time-to-hire. Our expert teams work as an extension of your business, tailoring strategies to meet your goals. With deep market insight and smart technology, we improve candidate quality and hiring efficiency. Let us take care of your recruitment so you can focus on growing your business.
Signs it's time to partner with an RPO expert
If your internal talent acquisition team is struggling to keep up with hiring demands, delays and missed opportunities can follow. Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is a scalable solution that gives you instant access to expert support, helping you manage high-volume hiring efficiently and without compromising on candidate quality. Reed Talent Solutions delivers flexible RPO services designed to relieve pressure, improve outcomes, and keep your recruitment on track.
Frequent employee churn or mismatched hires can signal underlying issues in your recruitment strategy. Our RPO experts use data-driven sourcing and screening methods to improve candidate quality and retention, ensuring long-term hiring success.
Whether you're expanding operations, launching new services, or facing seasonal spikes, speed is critical. Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) provides a scalable solution that enables organisations to respond quickly without compromising on quality or compliance.
Our RPO services that accelerate time-to-hire, ensure consistency across roles, and maintain full alignment with your brand and values. Our expert teams and technology-led processes give you the flexibility to meet evolving workforce needs with confidence.
If you're allocating significant time and budget to hiring but not seeing improvements in candidate quality, retention, or time-to-hire, it’s time to reassess your strategy. Our RPO model offers a cost-effective solution that streamlines operations through optimised workflows, advanced technology, and strategic workforce planning. We help reduce cost-per-hire and enhance recruitment efficiency, ensuring your investment delivers measurable value across your talent acquisition function.
You can trust us to deliver
Since 1995, we've been leading the way in contingent and permanent workforce solutions, providing organisations with the talent they need to thrive.
Our RPO case studies
Training college
Developing cyber training to enhance college lecturers' skills and development
Large UK bank
Reskilling back office and contact centre workforce into software development
The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority
Expert analysis to help boost retention and recruitment
Recruitment process outsourcing FAQs
Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) meaning the outsourcing of all, or part, of a company’s permanent recruitment requirements to an external service provider, can include delivery of the end-to-end recruitment process, from workforce planning through to the onboarding of a new hire. RPO could also encompass a single element of the recruitment process, such as attraction or selection, or a combination of different elements. In all cases, RPO differs greatly from providers such as staffing companies and contingent search providers as it assumes ownership of the design and management of the recruitment process and responsibility for the results.
A tailored RPO solution provides an organisation complete visibility and control over its entire recruitment process or a single stage within the process, helping to shape informed recruitment decisions. The benefits of outsourcing recruitment and selection processes include increased quality, efficiency greater visibility and control of recruitment, access to market-leading recruitment and HR expertise, improved selection, reduced costs, and a reduction in the time to hire.
The main difference between an RPO and a managed service programme (MSP) is the type of worker they supply to a company. RPO providers solely focus on finding permanent employees, while an MSP will find you the perfect temporary workers via an engaged supply chain. Another difference is the way of working. An RPO provider is an outsourced provider so will operate as an extension of your business by utilising your brand and integrating with your permanent recruitment processes.
RPO recruitment costs can vary greatly because RPO recruitment is designed to accommodate both small-scale and large-scale business needs. However, one of the advantages of recruitment process outsourcing is that as a standard cost is agreed for each successful hire, RPO is a vary cost effective solution. Indeed, working with an RPO partner significantly decreases the average cost-per-hire.
Selective RPO addresses specific parts of an organisation’s internal recruitment process. With selective RPO, organisations receive best practices for those specific services, such as the screening process.
RPO is a form of business process outsourcing (BPO). Whereas BPO involves the contracting of non-essential business tasks to a third-party provider, RPO sees an employer transfer all, or part, of its recruitment processes to an external provider. Recruitment process outsourcing involves more than simply filling positions in time of high demand. It is about improving the overall recruitment process in an organisation. RPO provides the talent to grow an organisation, while BPO allows organisations to concentrate on core functions.
Our awards and recognitions
Reed Talent Solutions wins two awards at TIARA Talent Solutions Awards 2024
Reed Talent Solutions has been honoured at the prestigious TIARA Talent Solutions Awards 2024.
Reed Talent Solutions nominated five times for TIARA Talent Solutions Awards
We have been named as a finalist five times across two prestigious TIARA Talent Solutions Awards 2024.
Reed Talent Solutions shortlisted for prestigious Health Service Journal Partnership Award 2022
Reed Talent Solutions has been nominated for the Staffing Solution of the Year Award, as part of the HSJ Partnership Awards 2022.