Recruitment Process OutSourcing

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) OR Employment Process Outsourcing (EPO) is a strategic decision for organizations today. Here are some short and long term impacts as I see:

Short term:

(1) Companies identify the non core activities in recruitment process and start outsourcing them e.g. sourcing, screening, managing ATS etc

(2) After outsourcing within their countries, US and European companies look for offshore outsourcing to countries like India.

(3) The initial benefits from this might attract a lot of corporate recruitment divisions and TPRs to outsource some of the processes to countries like Mexico, China, India.


Long Term:

(1) Companies look for outsourcing more high level jobs to third parties e.g. creating recruitment plans, telephonic interviews etc. They now have onsite coordinator for face to face interaction and use technology like video conferencing (over broadband) more effectively to recruit.

(2) Just like Offshore - Global Development Centers you will see Global Resourcing / Recruitment Centers (GRCs) coming up in low cost areas.