While internal recruiting staff cuts have hurt some businesses and employees, those same cuts are causing recruitment process outsourcing companies to see an increase in interest.
Employers who are realizing they will need to begin hiring again within the next few months, but have cut their own recruiting staff, are more and more turning to RPO providers. According to an article by Workforce Management, this trend seems to be across the board.
For instance, The RightThing, an RPO group based in Ohio, has signed three Fortune 500 companies during the past month, as those companies scaled back most of their own recruiting staff because of the economic recession.
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