Skip to content

Recruitment Process Outsourcing Services

Recruitment Process Outsourcing for high-growth, venture-backed tech companies: senior recruiters backed by a full RPO engine.

10+

Years in practice

Hundreds

Organizations served

96%

Customer satisfaction, 496 reviews on G2

Recruitment Process Outsourcing is how growing companies add real recruiting capacity without W-2 headcount. SecureVision has spent more than a decade running RPO engagements for high-growth, venture-backed tech and SaaS companies, from seed stage through IPO and beyond, and we maintain a 96% customer satisfaction rate. Senior recruiters dedicated exclusively to your business, working inside your systems and your hours, backed by the delivery oversight, sourcing technology, and market expertise of a full RPO operation.

SecureVision delivers RPO as Embedded Recruiting. For a day-to-day view of how an embedded recruiter plugs into your team, see how Embedded Recruiting works.

What Recruitment Process Outsourcing actually includes

An RPO engagement covers any responsibility an internal recruiter would carry. Your recruiter runs intake calls, writes job descriptions, sources and screens candidates, manages interview logistics, and carries every search through to accepted offers and start dates. They work directly with your hiring team, inside your messaging channels, your stand-ups, and your applicant tracking system, on your hours.

Key factors separate RPO from handing roles to an agency. Exclusivity: your recruiters work only on your searches, so they learn your business at a depth an agency recruiter with multiple customers never reaches, and that depth shows up in how well they position your company to candidates. Data and candidate ownership: the data and the candidate pool your engagement builds belong to you.

At a startup or growth-stage company where role requirements and hiring plans shift month to month, RPO and Embedded Recruiting solutions can pivot and support the hiring motion in whatever capacity it needs.

  1. 1Intake
  2. 2Job description
  3. 3Sourcing
  4. 4Screening
  5. 5Interviews
  6. 6Offer
  7. 7Start date

An RPO engagement covers any responsibility an internal recruiter would carry.

The engine behind every recruiter

When companies evaluate Recruitment Process Outsourcing providers, the difference goes beyond the individual recruiter. It comes down to what stands behind them. Every SecureVision engagement includes a delivery lead who manages recruiter performance, ensures the SOW is delivered, and shares metrics and progress with you weekly. It also includes a sourcing and technology stack built to accelerate hiring: senior strategic manual sourcing, strategic AI sourcing, AI resume matching, multi-step, multi-channel outreach sequences, interviewing tools, and job postings. Customers can choose to leverage or omit AI from our workflow.

As a result of our performance-driven culture, tech enablement, and recruiters proven to hit the ground running, we build pipeline faster than an individual contractor or internal recruiter can.

  • Delivery lead
  • Strategic sourcing
  • AI resume matching
  • Outreach sequencing
  • Interviewing tools

Global capability

Our core business is North America, with deep density in the United States. For companies that need global RPO coverage, SecureVision runs engagements across Latin America, EMEA, and APAC with a globally distributed recruiting team that works in your local time zones. SecureVision has serviced customers with a global presence end-to-end.

When RPO fits, and when another model fits

RPO makes sense when you want a more organized, structured talent acquisition motion. It makes sense when you have a lot of open headcount or consistent hiring quarter over quarter. It makes sense when you need more support than top-of-funnel resume submission, when you need functional expertise in the roles you are hiring for, and when cost-per-hire matters and you want more for your money as volume rises.

What the first 90 days look like

We have calibration meetings within 48 hours of the engagement start date: the recruiter presents the top 10 profiles per role in a live session with hiring managers before any outreach begins, ensuring alignment and that only the right candidates are introduced to the hiring team.

Across the first quarter, the pattern is consistent: fully ramped in 2-3 weeks; initial hires in roughly 30 days; on track against your hiring plan by 90 days. Ramped, in practice, means full candidate coverage across your open roles.

  1. 48hours

    Calibration meeting to align on candidate profiles

  2. 3-7days

    Initial recruiter screens

  3. 7-10days

    Hiring manager interviews

  4. 2-3weeks

    Fully ramped

    Full qualified pipeline per role

  5. ~30days

    Initial hires

  6. 90days

    On track against your hiring plan

The results

Our RPO engine moves the numbers that matter. Across engagements, SecureVision delivers up to a 50% reduction in time-to-fill and 90%+ offer acceptance, with a typical time-to-fill of 15-45 days.

50%

Up to 50% reduction in time-to-fill

90%+

Candidate offer acceptance rate

15-45DAYS

Time-to-fill

Proof across stages

SecureVision has recruited for hundreds of organizations, from early-stage startups to public enterprises.

The methodology behind the numbers

The goal of every search is the best candidates on the market. Getting there is method, not volume. Candidates are matched to your stage of scale and your environment before they are ever matched to a job description. The process is outcome-first: start with the end in mind, confirm work product and performance at the top of the funnel, and only then decide who interviews. And evaluation is deliberately meticulous, to protect your hiring team’s time and protect them from bad hires. The engine is what makes the search fast. The attention to detail is what makes it right.

The economics

An RPO subscription may look more expensive than an internal recruiter’s salary, but salary is not the right number to compare. The full cost of an internal hire includes benefits and payroll taxes (the wrap rate), the time it takes to make that hire, the cost of other roles staying open longer, a longer ramp before an internal recruiter produces results, and the overwhelming cost of hiring the wrong recruiter, which derails growth. Run that fully loaded figure against cost-per-hire; with an RPO, it can come out ahead of an internal recruiter’s.

The structural advantages compound from there. RPO accelerates hiring without adding full-time internal W-2 headcount. If a recruiter is not working out, they are replaced quickly, without the cost and time loss of an internal mis-hire. Companies often run a combination of internal recruiting and RPO support for exactly these reasons.

Recruitment process outsourcing FAQ

What is Recruitment Process Outsourcing?

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is an engagement model where a provider takes on part or all of a company’s recruiting function. Dedicated recruiters manage hiring end-to-end, from intake and job descriptions through sourcing, screening, interviews, and accepted offers, working inside the company’s own systems and backed by the provider’s delivery oversight and technology.

How is RPO different from working with a staffing agency?

A staffing agency submits candidates for individual roles and is paid per placement. An RPO provider becomes an extension of your talent acquisition function: recruiters work only on your roles, manage the full process, and are accountable to your hiring plan rather than to individual placements.

How much do RPO services cost?

The cost varies widely depending on the scope of the engagement. It’s a much better cost-per-hire than working with contingent solutions, and when you factor in the full cost of hiring an internal recruiter, RPO often wins on cost-per-hire in that comparison as well.

How quickly does an RPO engagement start producing?

SecureVision holds a calibration meeting to align on candidate profiles within 48 hours, conducts recruiting screens in 3-7 days, builds fully qualified pipelines in 2-3 weeks, makes initial hires in roughly 30 days, and is on track or ahead of your hiring plan by 90 days.

We only have enough people for one full-time recruiter. Is RPO still a fit?

Yes. The engagement flexes to fit you. We can manage the entire talent acquisition function or work alongside internal recruiters.

Ready when you are, let’s get to work

Talk to us about your hiring plan