The Challenge In Recruiting
Your Talent Acquisition headcount is typically capped, but hiring needs can fluctuate. Handling your requisition load during surges can be a major challenge, but if you staff for your peak hiring season, your TA headcount will naturally be bloated. Even if your budget allowed for you to bring on additional internal TA staff, they’d end up being underutilized for months at a time during hiring slowdowns.
Bringing in an RPO will address some of these issues, but this is a cumbersome process that costs a lot of time, effort, and money to implement. It also involves firing most of your existing team in favor of an outsourced group of hired guns.
The trick is to create an elastic recruiting capacity, while maintaining a rigid headcount in your TA department.