RPO Analyses

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  • HR Outsourcing Confidence Index: December 2011

    December 2011 | Market Analysis by Amy Gurchensky

    NelsonHall's "HR Outsourcing Confidence Index" is a quarterly Index reflecting changes in business confidence within the HR outsourcing community.

    The HRO Confidence Index indicates:

    • Overall changes in confidence within the HR Outsourcing industry
    • HR outsourcing revenue and pipeline growth by quarter
    • Revenue growth expectations for the coming year
    • Factors that are influencing change in HR outsourcing demand
    • Contract characteristics showing high acceptance

  • HR Outsourcing Confidence Index: October 2011

    October 2011 | Market Analysis by Amy Gurchensky

    NelsonHall's "HR Outsourcing Confidence Index" is a quarterly Index reflecting changes in business confidence within the HR outsourcing community.

    The HRO Confidence Index indicates:

    • Overall changes in confidence within the HR Outsourcing industry
    • HR outsourcing revenue and pipeline growth by quarter
    • Revenue growth expectations for the coming year
    • Factors that are influencing change in HR outsourcing demand
    • Contract characteristics showing high acceptance.

  • HR Outsourcing Confidence Index: June 2011

    June 2011 | Market Analysis by Amy Gurchensky

    NelsonHall's "HR Outsourcing Confidence Index" is a quarterly Index reflecting changes in business confidence within the HR outsourcing community.

    The HRO Confidence Index indicates:

    • Overall changes in confidence within the HR Outsourcing industry
    • HR outsourcing revenue and pipeline growth by quarter
    • Revenue growth expectations for the coming year
    • Factors that are influencing change in HR outsourcing demand
    • Contract characteristics showing high acceptance.

  • HR Outsourcing Confidence Index: March 2011

    February 2011 | Market Analysis by Amy Gurchensky

    NelsonHall's "HR Outsourcing Confidence Index" is a quarterly Index reflecting changes in business confidence within the HR outsourcing community.

    The HRO Confidence Index indicates:

    • Overall changes in confidence within the HR Outsourcing industry
    • HR outsourcing revenue and pipeline growth by quarter
    • Revenue growth expectations for the coming year
    • Factors that are influencing change in HR outsourcing demand
    • Contract characteristics showing high acceptance.

  • Targeting Recruitment Process Outsourcing

    February 2011 | Market Analysis by Gary Bragar

    This market analysis of "Recruitment Process Outsourcing" consists of 81 pages.

    The Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) market has bounced back strongly, with organizations both reluctant to rebuild in-house recruiting capability while economic uncertainty exists and needing to recruit more globally than before to build capability in high growth markets.

    This market analysis covers:

    • Changing shape of RPO services
    • Market size and growth
    • Customer requirements
    • Vendor market shares
    • Vendor offerings and delivery
    • Use of technology and partners
    • Vendor challenges and success factors.

RPO Vendor Assessments

NelsonHall produces detailed assessments of recruitment process outsourcing services vendors, to assist buyers in understanding supply-side capabilities, and to help the vendors themselves understand the positioning and strengths of their potential bid partners

  • Talent2 - Recruitment Process Outsourcing

    November 2011 | Vendor Analysis by Gary Bragar

    Analyzes Talent2's recruitment process outsourcing offerings and capabilities.

    Talent2 is an Asia Pacific (Hong Kong and Sydney) headquartered human resources business process outsourcing (HR BPO) organization, offering talent management and consulting services across a number of HR processes.

  • Kenexa - RPO

    May 2011 | Vendor Analysis by Gary Bragar

    Analyzes Kenexa's RPO offerings and capabilities.

  • Hays - RPO

    May 2011 | Vendor Analysis by Gary Bragar

    Analyzes Hays' RPO offerings and capabilities

  • ManpowerGroup Solutions - RPO

    May 2011 | Vendor Analysis by Gary Bragar

    Analyzes ManpowerGroup Solutions' RPO offerings and capabilities.

  • Adecco RPO

    April 2011 | Vendor Analysis by Gary Bragar

    Analyzes the recruitment process outsourcing offerings and capabilities of Adecco.

  • Alexander Mann - Recruitment Process Outsourcing

    April 2011 | Vendor Analysis by John Willmott

    Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS), headquartered in the U.K., began providing RPO in Europe in 1996. Today AMS has ~1,350 employees, 150 consulting and 1,200 delivering RPO to clients in ~60 countries.

  • Futurestep - Recruitment Process Outsourcing

    April 2011 | Vendor Analysis by Gary Bragar

    Futurestep, formed in 1998, serves as Korn/Ferry's International outsourced recruiting subsidiary. In addition to RPO, the company also offers talent acquisition consulting, project based recruitment, and mid-level recruitment.

  • Infosys - Recruitment Process Outsourcing

    April 2011 | Vendor Analysis by Gary Bragar

    Analyzes Infosys's offerings and capabilities in recruitment process outsourcing.

  • KellyOCG - Recruitment Process Outsourcing

    April 2011 | Vendor Analysis by Gary Bragar

    Analyzes KellyOCG's offerings and capabilities in recruitment process outsourcing

  • The RightThing - Recruitment Process Outsourcing

    April 2011 | Vendor Analysis by Gary Bragar

    Analyzes the offerings and capabilities of The RightThing



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