Recruiting and retaining top quality candidates in this brutal competitive world is one of the most significant aspects of successful businesses today. By streamlining the recruitment process, introducing best practice, appropriate technology and removing any unnecessary procedures, companies can increase transparency of their hiring across the business and significantly reduce recruitment costs. For RPO’s, hiring is their main purpose of business. They invest their time, energy and resources into sourcing, screening and presenting the cream of the crop in terms of available talent to the client. In one of the report authored by Elizabeth Rennie, HR Research Director at Nelson Hall, where she made some comprehensive assessment of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services globally, in continuation to her humongous readings, our idea of RPO’s finds even more benefits to the start-ups, SMEs and small businesses who is more inclined to get in unmatched talents from the open pool of resources available; is not just time consuming but also requires more focused approach towards hiring; also hiring managers who are pressed for time to fill a position, or have a large number of candidates to sift through, may not necessarily take a look at the qualities that determine whether or not the new hire will stick with the position and off-course market complexity also being one of the reason; RPO’s broadened approach towards sourcing; assessing and selecting a candidate play a much stronger role in the end-to-end recruitment value chain. Everest group research report has suggested India has one of the fastest-growing markets worth $660-700 million and is expected to grow at a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24-26 percent from 2015 to 2020 adding to more new businesses and more influx of complex –skilled candidates thus leading to tremendous work potential for the RPO’s.

However, the rise of new technologies & automation also remain as a perennial disruptive threat to overall employments and employable industries. Huge availability of multi-skilled talent, automation take-over in overall lifestyle & in business models, excess usage of robotics, AI replacing the white-collared jobs very aggressively, stories from Google, Tesla, Solar Powered vehicles, self-running vehicles, solar powered city plans, Augmented Realities has all proven an overhaul in the resource functioning. The time is not far when we all will see complete transformations in

businesses, in one of my current read articles suggested that by 2025 absolutely newer jobs/pprofessions will be created which currently no one has heard of nor have worked for!! Robots are not coming, but they are already here &they are here to stay! Unfortunately, apart from growing technologies; cyber-attacks and cyber–crimes remains a popular reason that companies still choose to rely on its internal resources then outsourcing their crucial processes to any other specialists. Companies are not wrong when they choose to rely in house. We have witnessed the fact since in less than a year, India has seen an outburst of attacks like WannaCry, Petya, GoldenEye, Locky; these Malwares hijack computers and encrypt important files, data, denies accesses to computers and servers. When larger companies have been victims of such cyber-attacks, smaller companies are like pigeon in a shit hole condition. Few of the reason that companies become vulnerable to such crimes are shortage of qualifiedd staff, lack of cyber security, huge number of business transactions from smart devices and others. Fast-evolving cyber security technology leaves SMEs unsure about the solutions that suit them best.

The rise of new technologies & automation also remain as a perennial disruptive threat to overall employments and employable industries

India’s workforce is considered to be one of the fastest growing and bankable workforce; referring to a certain article it is expected that by 2025, there will be 250 million people who will enter the job market.If such a huge pool is managed poorly, it can strain the entire economy. Sustained success does not mean that it is a guaranteed success, the employability of these 250 million youth will be utmost crucial in shaping up the future. A study by INSEAD, Human Capital Leadership Institute and Addeco Group has ranked India at 90th position in labor vocational skills. India has huge educated crowd; however lack of soft skills, problem solving ability, creative thinking makes India stand at 90th position despite it being an attraction for maximum potential for businesses. India, India Inc's. and us, we together can invest more in talent development starting from study level by aligning theories with real world applicability’s, vocational and soft skill training must be encouraged, developing more apprenticeship models so as to provide the employable skills to the bankable youth., digital & technology studies must be emphasised & easing up of labor laws will surely be a boon for the fastest growing economy like India.


For a new RPO entrant, every day is a new challenge, human is the only unpredictable resource, ensure that just by taking up recruitment responsibility does not mean just making a plain hiring or a one-size-fit position solution. One must understand the requirement; identify the right pool of talent and then source for a talent, if an RPO is not committed to improve their recruitment processes than the business is certainly not for you. A good RPO can manage a wide portion of hiring processes, whether all of it or in part, need to find in best suited individuals with specific skills and the bonus part is you may already have the experience and resources for the same since you are in that business already.