RPO.
Embedded recruiting capacity for sustained, high-volume hiring. Same staffing partners. Same standards. Scaled by AI.
What is RPO?
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is a hiring model in which the firm becomes your embedded talent-acquisition function for a defined scope of roles or a defined hiring period. Sourcing, screening, scheduling, candidate experience, ATS hygiene, intake calls, reporting, all run through a dedicated recruiter cohort operating as if they were on your team.
Unlike search, RPO is sized to volume. Instead of paying a percentage per placement, you pay for capacity, and that capacity runs your hiring funnel end-to-end. Most engagements add a small per-hire fee to align incentives on outcome.
RPO is the right model when you need to hire ten or more people inside ninety days, the in-house TA team is at capacity (or doesn't exist), and the roles repeat. If you are hiring one CFO, choose retained or engaged. If you are hiring thirty nurses, choose RPO.
The engagement, in five steps.
Two to three weeks from contract to first interview. Cohorts size to your hiring plan and adjust on 30 days notice.
Plan & cohort sizing
We map your 90-to-180-day hiring plan, calibrate role libraries and intake protocols, and size the recruiter cohort to volume. Retainer and per-hire fee quoted to scope.
Embed & ATS handshake
Cohort onboards into your ATS, your hiring-manager calendar cadence, and your candidate-experience standards. ProHireHQ AI sourcing layer goes live underneath.
Run the funnel
Sourcing, screening, scheduling, intake calls, candidate communications, ATS hygiene, hiring-manager debriefs, weekly pipeline reporting. Run as if they were your team.
Hires & replacement window
Each placement carries a replacement guarantee window scoped to role tier. Per-hire fee billed at start. Reporting cadence keeps the numbers visible.
Adjust monthly
Cohort grows or shrinks against your actual hiring volume on 30 days notice. Most engagements adjust at least once across the year as priorities shift.
RPO vs. Contingent.
Two ways to handle hiring volume. RPO embeds capacity; contingent pays per placement. The right answer depends on the cadence and scale of your hiring.
RPO
- Retainer + small per-hire fee
- Dedicated recruiter cohort, embedded
- Sized to volume, adjusts monthly
- Best for 10+ hires in 90 days
- Owns the full funnel end-to-end
Contingent
- Fee owed only on placement
- One-off senior or niche roles
- No funnel ownership
- Best when volume is low or one-off
- Run alongside other channels
RPO by industry.
Industry pages are SEO/AEO entry points. RPO scales any high-volume hiring plan; staffing partners work in niches we may not yet list.
Healthcare
Clinical staff · post-acute · home health
RNs, LPNs, NPs, PTs, SLPs, caregivers, schedulers
Behavioral Health
BCBAs · clinical leaders · RBTs
BCBAs, RBTs, clinical directors, intake teams
Manufacturing
Plant ops · production · maintenance
Plant operators, maintenance techs, supervisors, planners
Construction
Field ops · estimation · project teams
Superintendents, estimators, project engineers, foremen
Technology
Engineering · sales · CS at scale
Engineers, AEs, CSMs, support, ops at scale
Aviation
Maintenance · ground ops · scheduling
A&P mechanics, dispatchers, ground crew, schedulers
RPO,
specifically.
The questions hiring leaders ask in the first call. Answered the way we answer them in the call.
Tell us the hiring plan, the volume, the timeline.
We come back inside one business day with a cohort sizing, a retainer quote, and a market read on the roles.