THE RPO SWOT

Posted by PeopleStrong under Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Many a times an outsourcing deal fails because the outsourcing organization does not have a clear strategy in place and the benefits that it wants to draw from the engagement are not clealy identified. RPO, like all other outsourcing models, has its share of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. The figure below illustrates them.

The core promise of RPO is that it makes recruitment process driven with SLAs and reverse SLAs. Cost reduction and lesser time to hire is what processes and SLAs bring about.

Engaging with one provider for all the recruitment needs seems like putting all your eggs in the same basket. This can become a single point of failure if the engagement rules are not set out well. One must not also expect the cost savings to happen too fast and must let the engagement to mature.

The client must be clear and the vendor must be competent enough to realise the full potential of the partnership.

-Pankaj Bansal, Co-founder and CEO