The advantages are obvious: A centralized application management brings many advantages. Cost advantages are only one important part.
Are there also disadvantages to consider?
There are arguments pro and contra outsourcing of all recruitment tasks to an external RPO partner.
This question doesn´t arise if there is no HR department in your company. In this case you need a RPO partner, anyway. But, if you run an own HR department, how to decide: "Make or buy?
A lot has already been written about the new data protection basic regulation. From May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR will come into force and regulate the handling of personal data in a binding manner for companies and organizations of all sizes. The new data protection basic regulation thus has a direct influence on recruitment. It sets limits and standards for the processing of applicant data (i.e. collection, recording, organisation, order, storage, adaptation or modification,
A survey of 74 authorities from the city administration to federal authorities has examined the areas of personnel planning, recruitment and development. The current status quo at the time of the survey (2016) as well as the trends were scrutinized.
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Does anyone still remember that the job markets of the newspapers, e.g. the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ, had supplement volumes and listed pages of expensive job advertisements?
Job advertisements were THE sources of income for newspapers. When the online job markets gained a foothold, especially Stepstone, Jobpilot (now Monster) and Stellenmarkt.de, the earnings model quickly came to an end. Even today, publishers and media groups still suffer when searching for alternative sources of income.