Project Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Delivering short-term goals on full-time roles.
What is Project RPO?
Project RPO provides a rapid response to your one-off or short to medium-term talent demands. We can implement an effective hiring process within six weeks and find you the talent you need at the volume and speed you require, without adding headcount to your talent acquisition team.
Whether you are scaling fast, opening a new office, launching a new product, or simply bolstering your talent in a key area, Project RPO offers you all the support and expertise of our RPO offering when and where you need it most.
Project RPO falls into three service types:
- Source-to-shortlist: Candidate attraction, sourcing, and shortlisting to in-house talent acquisition teams or direct to hiring managers.
- Source-to-accept: Managing the hiring process up to, and including, offer management.
- Source-to-start: End-to-end management including the provision of onboarding.
Our track record
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43,000
Professionals we help start their next chapter
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11,000
Organizations who we help acquire talent
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28
Years of delivering outsourcing solutions to clients worldwide
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60
Countries where we deliver outsourcing services
How it works
We put together the team and tech support you need to deliver transformational talent acquisition projects on time and on budget. In as little as six weeks, we will have your RPO set up, connecting you with expert recruiters, managing application volumes, costs and budgets, ensuring compliance, and providing accurate and insightful data that makes your talent acquisition strategies work harder.Key benefits
- Deploy a flexible, scalable delivery team, within six weeks
- Reduce time to hire and accelerate project delivery
- Access dedicated resources designed to meet specific hiring needs fast
- Draw on expertise across a wide array of roles and disciplines
An award-winning service
Case study
Solving hiring surges with Project RPO
Our client, a world leader in sustainable energy technologies and services, employs over 60,000 people across more than 70 countries. Their operations in South Korea support the rapid ascent of the nation’s petrochemical, semiconductor, and home healthcare industries.
Find out more about how our Project RPO solution has solved critical peak hiring challenges and overcome escalating recruitment costs that were impacting our client’s business performance in Korea.
What makes our RPO solutions different?
Powered by data
We make data-driven decisions to optimize your hiring processes and deliver the talent you need effectively and efficiently. The key to operational excellence is accurate data, but many businesses struggle to produce consistent metrics and up-to-date market insight. That’s where RWInsights comes in. RWInsights is our cloud-based platform powered by 100+ data sources and a global team of data scientists, who are experts in talent analytics and the economic and demographic factors that influence talent. It gives you access to an always-on, personalized talent analytics platform, allowing you to build a truly data-led sourcing strategy.Enabled by tech
RWConnect is the technology platform that underpins every aspect of our RPO solutions. It enables us to offer true scalability, deliver enhanced user experiences and uncover exceptional untapped talent pools, mapped to skills, with the use of embedded AI. So it sets our recruiters free to focus on the human side of recruitment and building connections. You can use our best-in-class tech as a complete RPO platform, or it can seamlessly integrate with your tech stack. We work with you to implement the solution that works best for your organization. We are constantly innovating and improving our tech to meet your future hiring needs, so you can stay ahead of the market without constantly upgrading your own systems.Delivered by experts
Our business is built on providing the expertise to solve your toughest resourcing and talent management challenges. We have talent solutions specialists at every stage of the hiring lifecycle. Our teams will get to know you, champion your organization’s story, and connect you to professionals who can transform your business. We have strong in-built capability for skills-first, diversity and environmental, social and governance (ESG) hiring needs. Our powerful combination of talent marketers and sourcing partners can help you explore and develop more diverse talent pools. Our experts in selection ensure a fair and meritocratic process every time. Whatever your challenges, we provide practical solutions and operational excellence at scale and speed, flexing the size and make-up of our team to match your requirements.Meet our expert RPO team

Sarah Keady
EVP, Operations, North America
With over a decade at Robert Walters, Sarah spearheads our Americas operations, focusing on operational excellence and empowering team members to deliver consistently exceptional service.

Dawn Sloan
EVP, Client Services, North America
Dawn oversees operational delivery, governance, and performance for our North America client portfolio, driven by a passion for customer experience, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Marrena Anderson
Vice President of Solutions, North America
Marrena, a leader known for driving organizational value, customizes RPO solutions to meet clients' goals, optimize processes, and boost efficiency.

Mairianne Reardon
Global Head of Growth and Sales Enablement
Mairianne joined us in 2017, to head up the APAC Sales team and is now Global Head of Growth and Sales Enablement. She is committed to growing sustainable client partnerships.
Our other services
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Full RPO
Maximising your potential across the entire hiring lifecycle.
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Hire Train Deploy
Build tech talent, enhance diversity and bridge skill gaps.
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Resource Augmentation
Expert consultants employed by us, deployed to you.
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Managed Service Provider (MSP)
Maximising potential across the full lifecycle of non-permanent resources.
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