RPOlosophy

Chris Herrmannsen says:

There is no doubt that recruitment outsourcing (or indeed, outsourcing of any kind) has and will continue to move at a slower pace in most countries outside North America. This has little to do with differing business models or commercial rationale. Instead, the greatest obstacle to outsourcing remains cultural objections to “loosing control” over what is perceived as business critial functions. Overcoming this requires a mindet change which could take decades. However, there is now clear evidence that HR outsourcing and RPO in particular is growing at an exponential rate across western Europe and Asia Pac. I believe there are two main reasons for this, 1) the benefits are utterly compelling and, 2) globalisation is driving some of this into regions previously able to opt out. Our task is to demonstrate to customers that we transfer knowledge and expertise into their organisations via RPO, rathen than taking away capability and leaving them exposed and vulnerable. Perhaps as an industry we should think about a new way of articulating what we do to avoid classic negative reactions to the RPO tag?