RPOlosophy

I’m currently reading the new Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol, and something outrageous occurred to me. It happened when I was reading the about Freemasons, The Great Seal, and the number 13. It was almost as if I was Robert Langdon and I had just deciphered an encrypted code.

With certainty and clarity, I instantly saw the connections between the Freemasons and HRO Today.  Undoubtedly, the RPO Bakers Dozen is analogous to The Great Seal. It can’t be coincidence that 13 Recruitment Process Outsourcing Firms were selected; just as it is no accident that The Great Seal has 13 stars in the crest, 13 stripes in the shield, 13 olive leaves, 13 olives, 13 arrows, 13 feathers on each arrow, 13 letters in E Pluribus Unum, 13 letters in Annuit Coeptis, 13 elements in a pyramid, and 13 levels in the pyramid. Also, did you know that there are 13 letters in “RPO Summit 2009″ and that the upcoming annual HRO/RPO event in NYC is on April 13th 2010?

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When discussing hail, the common benchmark is the golf ball.  However, I recently learned that the US National Weather Service actually has 14 such descriptions of hail ranging from Pea to Softball. Hail the size of a Golf Ball ranks number 8 on the list with a diameter of 1 ¾ inches (see US Weather Service Chart below).

As usual, this got me to thinking about RPO and our industry’s benchmarking of providers. With hail, the ability to rank by size seems to be a fair method of categorization. After all, hail isn’t that complex (unless of course, you consider all the factors to go into its formation). 

However, RPO firms are much more difficult to grade. Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a complex business. In addition to size (which is typically defined as number of hires), there are also such factors as breadth and depth of services, quality of services, and (what I like call) degree of difficulty.

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