CBI Way: Improving RPO with Metrics

CBI Way: Improving RPO with Metrics

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Guest blog spot by Outside-In® Team Member Alex Patton

Throughout the last CBI Way blog, we examined the importance of setting the partnership up for success with thorough guidelines for the duration of the engagement. A significant part of the guidelines mentioned related to measuring success with key metrics and reporting of that crucial data. While a few metrics for a successful RPO were discussed, every partnership is different, and there are certainly a number of ways to support success.

ID-10082598When “Teeing Up Success”, the metrics incorporated can vary and may not be traditional. We cannot improve what we are unable to measure. Therefore, choosing the correct metrics for your partnership can drastically improve the process and flow of an RPO engagement. Allowing certain areas of focus to grow along with the partnership can only help both parties’ main objectives be successful. For example, source of candidates is decisive for improving any recruitment solution. Not seeing the same number of quality candidates that were originally presented? It is easy to take a look at the sources from which the best candidates were obtained, whether job board or a more passive candidate approach. If tracked and reported, that data can help alter the sourcing strategy to become more effective.

There are number of metrics that could be tracked and reported to help improve any lapses in efficiency and effectiveness. Time between steps of the RPO process is another example that is hard to overlook. This could be the number of days between kick-off and hire, or submission date to interview day, and many more. Reporting the duration between the key points in a recruitment cycle can help identify where a gap in the business may lie.

Metrics and reporting give you the capability to not only provide your client, but also your own internal team, with data that can translate to improvements in the project. And as discussed in our earlier CBI Way blogs (Building Blocks of RPO Solutions and Post-Implementation Success), the flexibility to alter, change, and then improve the partnership is one of several benefits or advantages of an RPO solution.

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