Embedded hiring capacity
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
Recruitment process outsourcing means an external team takes over part or all of your hiring process. TalentStores supplies the technology and sources embedded recruitment teams from vetted RPO partners, so capacity flexes without your data leaving the platform.
- Delivery
- Partner recruiters
- Data ownership
- Yours, always
- Engagement shapes
- Enterprise, project, on-demand
How it works
RPO usually fails in one of two ways: the provider runs your hiring on their systems and you lose the data, or the team is generic and never learns your business. TalentStores addresses both. The recruiters come from specialist RPO partners in our vetted ecosystem, but they work inside your TalentStores workspace on your requisitions, your scorecards and your pipeline.
Engagements are scoped by shape. Enterprise RPO covers the full function; project RPO covers a specific ramp such as fifty engineers in two quarters; and on-demand RPO adds sourcing capacity by the week during a peak. Each scope has defined coverage, service levels and a pricing model — cost per hire, monthly fee or fee per recruiter — set in the commercial engine.
Because delivery happens in the platform, performance is inspectable in real time: pipeline coverage per requisition, time in stage, sourcing channel yield and offer acceptance. When the engagement ends, every candidate record, note and interview stays with you.
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Scope the engagement
Enterprise, project or on-demand, with coverage and service levels defined.
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Match a delivery team
Recruiters from vetted RPO partners selected for your sector and role families.
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Embed in your workspace
Partner recruiters work on your requisitions, scorecards and pipeline data.
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Measure and flex
Live SLA reporting, with capacity scaled up or down by the month.
What's included
Embedded recruiter teams
Sourcers, recruiters and coordinators from partner firms matched to your role families.
Your data, your workspace
Every candidate, note and scorecard stays in your TalentStores account after the engagement ends.
Defined service levels
Pipeline coverage, time to submit, submit-to-interview and acceptance targets agreed upfront.
Employer brand and messaging support
Outreach sequences and careers content aligned to your voice, not the provider's template.
Flexible commercial models
Cost per hire, monthly management fee or per-recruiter pricing held in the commercial engine.
Transparent delivery reporting
Live dashboards on funnel health and channel yield rather than a monthly slide deck.
Frequently asked questions
Does TalentStores employ the RPO recruiters?
No. Recruiters are supplied by specialist RPO partners in our vetted ecosystem. TalentStores matches the partner, hosts the delivery in your workspace, tracks the service levels and settles the commercials centrally.
How quickly can an RPO team start?
A project or on-demand team typically starts within two to four weeks of scoping, depending on sector specialism and clearance requirements. Full-function enterprise engagements take longer because of process design and handover from incumbent teams.
What happens to our data when the engagement ends?
It stays with you. Candidates, notes, scorecards, interview feedback and sourcing history live in your TalentStores workspace throughout, so ending an engagement is an access change rather than a data migration.
Can RPO cover only part of the process?
Yes. Common splits are sourcing-only, screening and coordination only, or high-volume role families only, with your internal team keeping executive and specialist hiring. The scope is defined per role family in the platform.
Ready to talk through Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)?
Book a working session with our team, or take a self-guided tour of the platform first. Either way you will see the real workflow, partners and commercials before you commit.
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