Recruitment Process Outsourcing Blog

Tips for Managing Your Team’s Time Off During the Holidays

When the holidays come around, managing a team can become a bit like playing chess, especially when you’re trying to do your best to approve everyone’s time off requests. We all undoubtedly need a break at this time of the year. No one wants a burnt-out team, and burnt-out employees will end up leaving you. …

Achieving a Better Candidate Experience with Compassion

As recruiters, we are constantly sourcing candidates. Some of us might send emails or texts, individually or in batches, but there is always another human being we are trying to reach on the other end. Life is busy, and the candidates we are sourcing are in the thick of it. The intricacies of their daily …

Turn and Face the Strange New World of Work

How Companies are Capitalizing from The Great Resignation Did you immediately recognize the David Bowie silhouette, or that our title “Turn and Face the Strange” is an extremely popular line from 1960/70’s album Changes by Bowie? According to a random and totally unscientific study of ten of our staff, 50% knew both points and 50% had …

Will the new office be an escape from home?

If you’re working remote and getting the work done, why would you want to come back to the office? Wouldn’t make sense, right? This is something I have been pondering since the summer of last year. Many of us were settling into work from home. If you follow me, my company People Science, or anyone …

RPO/RPI vs Contingent Staffing – A Comparison

Although there is often some confusion around the topic, RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) does not operate the same or provide identical services as contingent staffing companies. RPO is a new concept in outsource recruiting that provides some similar services but on a wider, more in-depth scale. RPO/RPI was actually founded via the need of clients …

What we are learning and hearing about Recruiting during COVID-19

By: Christine Nichlos, CEO People Science By noon EST on Monday, March 16th, just a few short days into the COVID-19 lockdown, I had received three calls from clients concerned because they are hearing from their staff that outside Recruiters are aggressively pursuing them for new positions. In other words, their overall staff including their …

Build Strong Relationships With Your Candidates

Building strong relationships with candidates, from initial phone screens, all the way through to the offer stage is more important than you may think. Frequent and effective communication with candidates in your pipeline is one way to ensure positive, long-lasting relationships. The main benefit of establishing good communication with your candidate pool is to keep …

Cost of Vacancy

Position Fact Finder Prepared for: The Thought Leadership Institute, Corporate Leadership Exchange June 2012 Determining the COV can be simple or extremely complex depending on the position in scope. In any case, it is always unique and the process typically requires very specific information about the position being examined. For these reasons, one may find …

The Home Stretch in Recruiting

Sourcing for the right candidate for an open position can sometimes be like finding a purple squirrel with all the qualifications needed for the position. The phone screens are conducted, the resumes and notes on the candidate are sent over to the hiring managers for review. They want to proceed with speaking to the candidates …

When one door closes, another door opens

When one door closes, another door opens. Sometimes a candidate is a great fit for the company but not the team with which they interviewed. Take the time to speak with the candidate to let them know they were not selected for the job. Open your mind and listen to what they are looking for …