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Recruiting and Hiring In A Competitive Market

In today’s competitive job market, attracting and hiring new talent for open positions can be overwhelming. Maybe it’s time to consider Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) to help streamline and simplify your hiring practices. You may have heard of Recruitment Process Outsourcing, but what are the differences between RPO and traditional recruiting? The biggest difference it that RPO doesn’t end after filling an open position. An RPO partner works with an organization’s recruiting process as a whole and looks at turnover rates, technology, how much time it takes to fill a position and much more. Does this sound like something that would be helpful, particularly right now? That’s where Contemporaries can be an invaluable partner.

Contemporaries is not just a staffing firm, but we can work with you as an RPO partner, determining your specific hiring needs and objectives and helping you build a stronger business.

When the recruiting process is outsourced to specialists, like Contemporaries, it enables you to find the talent you need without distracting you and your staff from your day-to-day activities. Here are five other advantages:

  • Creative Recruitment Strategies: During times like this, when finding the right talent for  open positions can be challenging, you need all the advantages you can get to attract highly qualified candidates. An RPO partner knows the best, most creative methods for finding talent.
  • Stronger Quality of Hires: This is one of the main advantages of an RPO partner. They invest time, energy and resources into screening and presenting the best of the best of available talent.
  • Reduced Costs: An RPO partner can scale up or scale down recruitment activity to match your fluctuating needs. This lowers overall costs for your company.
  • Improved Turnover Rates: When recruiting is outsourced, it leads to highly qualified candidates who are compatible with your company’s needs and culture. They’re more likely to stay in the position and that eliminates high turnover costs for your business!
  • Help With Rapid Growth: An RPO partner is ready to handle periods of growth and can have a proactive plan in place for seasonal shifts or projected growth patterns.

As the economy and business climate have changed, so has the challenge of recruiting and hiring the right candidates. The entire process can be time-consuming and costly. It requires keeping up with new recruiting technology and social media, developing relationships with successful candidates, asking the right questions, conducting background checks and so much more. Contemporaries is based in the DC/Northern Virginia/Maryland region, so we understand the unique challenges that accompany finding top-level talent in the area. We’re ready to partner with you to make the hiring process more efficient and less expensive. Call us today at 301-565-0445.

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