Over the last two weeks I wrote about the origins of the RPO industry and the people who drove the early evolution. Enough with the history, let’s talk about where this is all going. While the RPO industry has been growing, the corporate recruiting functions have also been steadily improving.  Within the last year during [...]

Last week I wrote about the origins of the RPO industry and how the $600 million BP/Exult HRO deal in 1999 really fueled the initial growth. Today’s post will be about the early evolution. It takes visionary business leaders to make an industry, and there are 7 people who shaped RPO around the globe. They [...]

When RPO emerged as an industry there was a lot of speculation that it would never take. It would be short lived. “Nobody is going to outsource such a strategic function.” More than 10 years later it is going strong. Having just completed a stint at Futurestep, a leading global RPO provider, I am often [...]