Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
HRO and talent management processes are taking some dramatic turns. Here are the insights you need to know about what’s happening with the value proposition in both of these areas and how decision-making needs to be altered going forward.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The U.S. economic problems have impacted outsourcing in several ways, as has the increased focus on innovation and R&D in outsourcing arrangements. Both are affecting the initial stages of outsourcing decisions. Here’s a look at these trends and how they may affect your company.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
How are the unemployment statistics and other challenges in the current U.S. economic downturn impacting companies’ efforts to find and capture job candidates? What are the trends regarding retention? What is a crucial component of a corporate recruiting strategy these days? RPO firm Hyrian conducted a study and shares the findings, its corresponding insights, and examples of success in hard-to-fill positions.
John Harney, Business Writer
Three executives, including the president, performed HR tasks when U.S. Energy Services was a small company. When the employee roster exceeded 50 people, it was time to outsource HR. Even though the costs remained the same, the company is getting five times the benefits.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
How do you hire 1,000 human resource employees ASAP when you’re the untested new kid on the block? That was the challenge Visteon Corporation faced right before Ford spun off the automobile parts manufacturer. Manpower Business Solutions helped the newcomer fill its roster and cut its time to hire 50 percent.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Overhead Door Corporation’s Genie call center gets 55,000 plaintive calls a month. The manufacturer outsourced its call center operations unsuccessfully to two different U.S. suppliers. So it decided to bring the call center function in-house and hired Veritude to populate it…which it did 30 days early because the incumbent supplier abruptly decided to close its doors. Here’s the story.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The industry now faces a new set of risks associated with second-generation Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and HRO deals. We spoke with Adecco and ExcellerateHRO to learn their advice for mitigating risks in 2008.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The applicant pool at BloodCenter of Wisconsin was too small and the quality of candidates was poor. Additionally, it took too long to fill a position–up to 100 days when it should have taken just 45. Outsourcing solved its recruitment problems and cut costs–an RPO reduced the cost per hire 57 percent.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Historically, Unisys’s HR department did all its recruiting internally. But then the outsourcing supplier won three major outsourcing engagements at once and had to staff them in just 60 days. One required 600 people. It turned to an RPO, The RightThing, to fill those slots.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
2007 should be a very, very good year for HRO even though the drags on globalization remain, suppliers’ profits will still be a challenge, and the talent shortage will continue.
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