How to Choose Your Recruitment Process Outsourcing Partner

Partnering with a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider offers many benefits for companies in construction and engineering. Doing so can help your company manage the costs of recruitment, and, if you’ve partnered with the right RPO provider, can get you the best talent for your roles. In this article, we show you how to choose a top-level RPO provider that will help your company grow.

Think about the services you need

Recruitment Process Outsourcing providers will come in all shapes and sizes. Some will help only with the sourcing and recruitment of new candidates, while others will offer a more complete suite of services including the negotiation of offers and monitoring of candidates in the year after hire. The first step in choosing your RPO provider is to sit down and think about what services you’ll need, and then search for an RPO provider that will do them for you. For example, you may need help sourcing, interviewing and screening candidates, as well as ongoing help for a year or two while new hires settle into their roles.

Choose search-based consultants over volume-based

There are fundamentally two types of recruitment consultants. “Volume-based” recruiters will advertise for jobs, sift through a huge number of applicants, and presenting you with a number of applicants for any given role. “Search-based” recruiters have a totally different method for acquiring new talent. These specialists have deep industry connections and will headhunt candidates for your role discreetly. When choosing your RPO provider, go for search-based recruiters. They will present you with just one or two talented candidates that are perfect for the role, saving you time and money while giving  you the best result. Read more about why volume-based recruiting doesn’t work.

Look at their experience and specialisation

When shopping around for your RPO partner, always do a bit of research into the company as well as their individual recruiters. Ask questions like: How long have they been around? Are they a fly-by-night operation or have they demonstrated proven results? When looking at companies, make sure that they specialise in your industry. The best recruitment consultants will have deep industry connections, and it’s impossible to have these while operating in more than one or two industries. Finally, do some research on the individual recruiters who you’d be working with by looking at their LinkedIn and previous clients.  Choose an expert with industry knowledge and a proven track record of success.

Still not sure which RPO provider to choose? Quadrant Exec have placed candidates in top tier construction roles for over ten years, outlasting most recruiters in the industry. Contact us today for a free, confidential consultation.