The Continuing Evolution of Recruitment Outsourcing

Through advances in technology and the shift toward a greater requirement for a strategic partner, recruitment outsourcing is evolving, and fast.

This pace of change, accelerated by digital, is encouraging organisations and outsourcing providers to adapt, with proactivity and collaboration key to fully embedding an external provider into an employer’s recruitment strategy.

Andrew Brown, Global Head of RPO, Partners and Alliances at Lumesse, explains that these changes have in part been driven by the well-documented talent shortage, which has prompted a shift in mindset to access a smaller talentpool.

However, it’s interesting to note that in Lumesse’s latest survey, ‘The Continuing Evolution of Recruitment Outsourcing’ out of the in-house and external recruiters surveyed 20% offered no outsourcing. In fact, 61% of respondents said they wouldn’t consider outsourcing at all. But why?