Outsource your IT recruitment with Hays

Are you still handling your own recruitment? With the tech industry evolving so quickly, you can’t afford to spend valuable time and resources dealing with the minutia of recruitment for every new permanent role.

You need a purpose-built solution created with technology talent in mind. You need RPO – Recruitment Process Outsourcing - from Hays. 

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Drive digital change with a Hays RPO 

With our RPO all your permanent tech recruitment needs are met by our team of experts, who act as a seamless extension of your own HR team. You’ll get to harness the latest developments in recruitment innovation that come with transferring your permanent recruitment to a leading tech recruiter, ensuring you’re able to hire the right tech talent, quickly and effectively. 

No matter how you’re trying to drive digital change - whether through a system integration, a software rollout or a platform migration – a Hays RPO will help you do it. 
 

How a Hays RPO adds value to tech 

We’ll provide you with a team of tech recruitment experts, dedicated to talent acquisition for your company. They’ll bring a nuanced understanding of the tech recruitment landscape – whether that’s through expert consultancy, marketing expertise, market intelligence, workforce planning, market forecasts, building EVPs and unique attraction strategies or a pipeline of hard-to-find and highly skilled tech talent.

We’ll also include access to our free online training portal, Hays Learning, so you can give all your employees the skills to thrive. 
 
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Your RPO questions, answered

What is tech Recruitment Process Outsourcing? 

Tech Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is where all, or part, of your tech recruitment activities are outsourced to an external provider. This sees them act as an extension of your internal recruitment team for all or some of your tech jobs, usually based on-site with you and working under your brand.
 
A tech RPO could cover anything from tech workforce planning and market forecasting to talent attraction, screening, assessment and selection. A good tech RPO provider looks after your recruitment end to end – coordinating interviews, carrying out compliance and background checks, managing offers and onboarding new starters.

How does tech RPO work and why is it so important? 

Tech RPO sees a combination of dedicated experts, technology, best practice processes and analytics embedded as an extension of your organisation. They’ll align with your hiring managers, and work with you to forecast the future demand for tech talent, optimising sourcing, assessment and onboarding.
 
Leveraging automated and optimised tools and processes, alongside deep expertise, market insight and actionable analytics, they’ll ensure you and your business are always able to access the tech skills you need – which is vital for success in this fast-growing industry.
 

RPO may also offer offshoring options to help you reduce your tech recruitment costs, providing complete flexibility to better meet peaks and troughs in demand without additional headcount. Reduced time to hire, improved retention and a higher quality of hire will equal better ROI. 

What are the benefits of outsourcing your tech recruitment? 

Outsourcing your tech recruitment offers lots of benefits, including scalability, flexibility and cost savings. Crucially, it gives you improved access to the tech skills you need and ensures compliance at every stage. 
 
The great thing about an RPO that focuses on the tech industry is that it gives you access to recruitment experts who both understand the nuances of tech roles and who have access to communities of highly skilled and ready talent. We’ll support you with attraction campaigns targeted to niche tech talent. 
 
Our experts know the language of tech, and they understand what drives candidates, how to find them and how to offer them an optimised experience. Plus, they can also take responsibility for implementing technical interview and testing processes, ensuring only the most skilled professionals are selected to work for you.
 
It will be an optimised candidate experience, with EVP and branding advice, plus access to market intelligence and enhanced tech solutions.

How can I use a Hays RPO to ensure our hiring remains inclusive? 

Our RPO solutions are backed by Hays processes and technology, ensuring hiring processes are efficient, engaging and free from unconscious bias. Building a diverse and inclusive workforce is a core component of any talent acquisition strategy and candidates demand to see this commitment too.
 
Having a process and an environment built with inclusivity in mind is paramount to both attracting and hiring digital talent.
 
Within tech, diverse hiring can be a challenge, so we ensure that inclusivity is built into our entire hiring process. This includes an M.I. reporting tool so you can accurately monitor the diversity of applications to any given role.

What’s different about tech recruitment process outsourcing compared to standard recruitment? 

Whereas recruitment and staffing agencies focus on sourcing candidates, RPO providers design and deliver across the full talent acquisition process. If you are just recruiting one or a handful of roles, then check out our specialist recruitment <link>, if more, RPO could be the answer. From workforce planning right through to onboarding and retention, an RPO expert will work as a direct extension to your existing in-house recruitment team.
 
Your consultant will recommend, implement and run the latest in talent acquisition technology and methodology. They’ll support you in optimising a range of recruitment processes – taking in requirements from hiring managers, helping your business make informed decisions on assessing candidates and ensuring everything is ready for your new hires on day one.

How much does a tech RPO cost? 

There’s no easy answer to this question. It depends on the size and scale of the program and the model used to best meet your objectives. Typically, they’ll be able to provide savings compared to your current talent acquisition spend thanks to the efficiencies they’ll gain from expertise and volume developed over years of experience.
 
There are three main ways a tech RPO is priced, a fixed fee paid periodically, a transactional fee for each hire or performance based – for example, linked to cost savings or key pre-agreed KPIs.
 
If you want to know more, talk to us.