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Recruitment Process Outsourcing

The HRM Outsourcing and the recruitment outsourcing are a special issue of the day. The outsourcing is a modern way of the management of the head count employed in the organization. Generally, the outsourcing is presented as an excellent way of pushing non-core processes out of the organization and the cost for the outsourced processes is cheaper than having the processes inside the organization. In reality, the outsourced services do not have to be cheaper and can bring huge headache to the organization.

The companies specialized in outsourcing usually present excellent benefits for the organization, but they do not tell the full truth usually. The outsourcing companies are ready to run fully standardized processes and they are not ready to run custom made processes.

The outsourcing of the recruitment process is not easy. The organizations usually do not have clearly defined recruitment process, with clear roles and responsibilities in the recruitment process and the recruitment process, which does not know any exception. The outsourcing recruitment organization usually does not know any exceptions, usually in the case, when the recruitment outsourcing is ran off-shore.

The off-shore recruitment outsourcing becomes more popular, but it is very dangerous. The recruiters in India have no idea about the corporate culture in San Francisco, but they ask clever questions to the job candidates all around the world. The organization has to be careful in the selection of the outsourced services provider.

The organization has to decide to start with the very limited scope of the outsourcing services in the recruitment area. It can start with the job interview scheduling and outsourced phone interviews. The organization has to keep the control around the recruitment process not to allow the outsourced services organization to manage the recruitment process in the organization.

The outsourced recruitment processes need a bit different approach from the outsourcing provider as the outsourcing services provider has to know about the different recruitment approach in each organization and it has to respect the differences in their corporate culture.