RPO Solution Tailored to Client Needs

A long-standing customer asks for support with recruiting tech talent

LHH, the Adecco Group's global talent solutions and advisory arm, has been delivering career transition and redeployment services to this financial services company since 2015.

In 2021, the customer approached their team at LHH, asking for support with recruiting full-time employees for their new facility in New Jersey.

LHH designed an RPO solution that would be suited to this customer's needs.

The customer needed to hire 500 tech specialists right away, and they did not have enough capacity to manage the recruitment in-house. Speed to hire was critical, so there was no time for a months-long RPO implementation.

LHH started building the overarching RPO model while collaborating with Akkodis, the Adecco Group's tech and engineer staffing arm, to discuss options for plugging in their hiring capabilities. The combined team designed a solution specifically suited to the customer's needs in just 72 hours.

LHH and Akkodis joined forces for a one-of-a-kind RPO solution

LHH and Akkodis powered their recruitment engines to fill roles immediately, allowing time needed to set up the overarching RPO layer properly. Together, we reduced the solution standup timeline of 24 weeks proposed by another provider.

LHH's Technology practice was instrumental in making the instant delivery happen. They deployed a local program manager to drive the hiring efforts and be the central point of contact for the customer. The team was tasked with filling an initial 200 tech roles within two months.

Akkodis deployed their recruiting experts on the ground right away. They instilled a dedicated project manager to coordinate the work of four IT recruiters. Within the first 30 days, the team at Akkodis offered more than 20 candidates. After 60 days, the number of offers jumped to 130.

With the immediate-hiring solution in place, LHH could focus on setting up the long-term RPO delivery model for cost efficiencies and sustained support. We successfully deployed our Account Director while expanding both ours and Akkodis' recruiting team, nearly doubling the size of the program team. LHH's recruitment experts started supporting requisitions while simultaneously standardizing processes and building best practices. Together with our Analytics team, we created a reporting suite to ensure transparency across the entire program. In just the first month, LHH filled close to 20% of the placements flowing through the RPO solution.

Our customer's TA and HR teams were instrumental in the quick deployment, supporting communication, driving their hiring managers' education of the program and accelerating the recruitment cycle.

Speed and value delivered through the combined expertise of Adecco Group brands

We started with understanding precisely what our customer was looking for.

Speed to value was the top priority, and we needed to activate the recruitment engine immediately. We were able to do it by combining forces.

With the recruitment happening within days of signing the contract, we could build the full RPO infrastructure behind the scenes. The value-add of consolidating all services under LHH was the unified governance - our customer signed a single contract that encompassed the expertise of different Adecco Group brands. The long-term benefits we bring under the RPO model include reduced time-to-fill and sustained cost savings.