RPO Companies: 19 Recruitment Process Outsourcing Providers Compared

AMS (Alexander Mann Solutions) describes Marsh McLennan as an RPO client since 2018. Its Marsh McLennan case (opens in a new tab), published in November 2025, explains how its advisory team redesigned the company's talent acquisition operating model. The RPO page also reports a 40% improvement in candidate quality, a 68% reduction in time to hire and a 30% reduction in cost per hire, without naming the clients or periods behind them.

The models are end-to-end RPO, modular RPO, and project RPO with resource augmentation. The FAQ lists the KPIs AMS tracks, among them time to fill, offer acceptance, quality of hire and early attrition.

Korn Ferry, also profiled in this group, completed its acquisition of AMS (opens in a new tab) on September 1, 2026. If you invite both, ask how their RPO teams, technology and contracts will be run.

Cecilia McKenney, chief human resources officer, credits Cielo with helping Quest Diagnostics hire "while lowering our time-to-fill by 60%". The RPO page also reports a drop in turnover of more than 30% at Red Wing Shoes after one year of RPO partnership, and a 152% year-over-year increase in offers accepted at Tufts Medical Center, whose CHRO, Kara Greer, gives a testimonial on the same page.

Cielo offers enterprise, hybrid, project, modular (its TA Optimizers) and high-volume RPO. A July 2026 release (opens in a new tab) says Everest Group named it a Leader in its global RPO assessment for the 14th consecutive year. Cielo also estimates that RPO typically delivers operational savings of 20% to 30%, without a stated sample or calculation.

An HR business partner quoted on Guidant's RPO page, in a story about RPO for the life and pensions industry, says Guidant took over recruitment with "only two months' notice". Against a forecast of 400 vacancies in the first 12 months, the client says Guidant filled 500 roles within the first nine months of the contract. The client is not named.

Guidant offers enterprise RPO, blended RPO alongside an in-house team, and on-demand and project RPO, and runs managed service provider (MSP) programs for contingent workers.

Hays' RPO case tiles name the country and sector but not the client. For a chemical company in Malaysia, it reports time to fill halved in the first three months, from 68 days to 32, and an average below 25 days after that. Another chemical client in China saw time to offer fall from 156 days to 72.

Its RPO service is "fully modular": sourcing, screening, assessment or onboarding can be bought on their own or as an end-to-end or project program. Its RPO FAQ (opens in a new tab) names the three pricing structures above and seven areas to review before choosing, from objectives and geography to technology and pricing.

Hudson's case index names technology clients served through COIT, its technology RPO company, including Omada Health, NetSuite and Apttus. Its RPO page also describes a program for a global beverage company in Asia: Hudson handled all permanent hiring and reports 99% retention for all placements and a 35-day average time to fill, without stating a measurement period.

Hudson Talent Solutions was formerly Hudson RPO, and hudsonrpo.com now redirects to hudsontalent.com. It offers enterprise, project and on-demand RPO, and its FAQ says cost depends on hiring volume, role complexity, geographic scope and service model, without figures.

Kim Jones, vice president of human resources at Toshiba America Business Solutions, says Sevenstep's data-driven approach "reduced time-to-hire and improved sales talent quality". The RPO page also features a workwear company that it says reached 2,000 annual hires and cut time to fill by 45%.

KellyOCG and Sevenstep say they have joined forces and that integrating their technology and expertise is well under way; the site's footer names Kelly Services. The combined offer is enterprise, modular (including project RPO), hybrid and recruiter-on-demand models, with coverage in 71 countries and 33 in-country teams.

Korn Ferry's RPO page features client videos with Alcon and Westpac and a case in which a newly launched airline used it for executive recruitment and RPO for its crew. The page also shows a 95% offer acceptance rate and a 30% reduction in cost per hire with a 35% reduction in time to hire, without a client, baseline or period.

It offers full or hybrid RPO, project recruitment ("hire 10 or 200+ at speed") and flexible recruitment services, and reports more than 3,000 RPO specialists across more than 110 countries. It has also owned AMS, profiled above, since September 1, 2026. The page promises "guaranteed success from day one" in its change management without stating terms, so ask what that guarantee covers.

Its case studies describe an energy technology company that scaled to 10,000 annual hires through a hybrid RPO partnership, which the RPO page says spans 72 countries. Others cover project RPO for shared services centers, including 189 hires in Mexico and 300 specialist hires in Brazil. The clients are unnamed.

The unit offers RPO, project RPO, modular RPO, staff augmentation and total talent solutions, with teams in 34 markets. It says it has delivered savings of 50% or more against agency fees "for some customers". HRO Today lists it as Michael Page (formerly Page Outsourcing), ninth among its 2026 overall enterprise leaders.

Quorum Software used PeopleScout for full-cycle RPO across more than 40 role categories in the Czech Republic, India, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK, served from delivery centers in Poland and India (case published in 2023). PeopleScout reports a retention rate of at least 87% for new employees after 90 days, and 73% of submitted candidates invited to interview. A second 2023 case (opens in a new tab) for an unnamed global insurer describes a team that grew from 10 to 39 recruiters in its first year and 120 offers in ten months.

PeopleScout offers full-cycle, project, modular (its Amplifiers) and high-volume RPO and says it serves over 40 countries. Its RPO FAQ is a useful primer on choosing a provider.

Randstad Enterprise, whose RPO pages still use the Randstad Sourceright name in places, features one program on its RPO page: an unnamed power and utility company that uses an onshore delivery model and talent analytics to hire niche talent in a regulated environment. It names no client and publishes no results there.

It offers four models: end-to-end RPO, project RPO, recruiter on demand and talent BPO. The page cites Everest Group's PEAK Matrix: "16 times a leader". The cost question in its FAQ links to an RPO playbook chapter that gives no pricing model or fee.

A Robert Walters case study describes a modular RPO early careers program for an unnamed international bank across more than 20 countries. The case reports 130,000+ applications processed and 600+ hires each year, and says Robert Walters handles screening, shortlisting, interview scheduling, assessment scoring and right-to-work paperwork. The bank's talent acquisition lead says the team is "doing a great job supporting us with the shortlists".

Its UK RPO page offers full, project and modular RPO, and says a project RPO hiring process can be set up within six weeks. Robert Walters says it delivers outsourcing in more than 60 countries, with client account teams in 23, and also offers MSP programs for contingent workers.

Wilson's featured RPO case, published in 2024, is an unnamed multinational technology company: outreach rose 144% in one quarter, time to hire fell 66%, offer acceptance averaged 90% and sales attrition fell from the low 40s to below 30%. Its RPO page also cites an $8.5 million saving for a healthcare provider, without a period.

Wilson, the former WilsonHCG (its old address now redirects to wilsonhr.com), offers strategic, project, agile and modular RPO. Project RPO runs from 3 to 12 months. It says it has supported clients in 65 countries with more than 2,000 recruiters.

A promotional products company replaced an underperforming RPO provider with Advanced RPO's recruitment on demand model, embedded in its own hiring process. In a case published in August 2026, Advanced RPO reports time to fill down from more than 60 days to 49 and offer acceptance up from 74% to 82%. Its case-study index lists 23 programs by situation, none naming the client, and its homepage quotes the CHRO of an unnamed technology company: "We could not have come close to building a comparable recruiting organization in-house".

It offers RPO, recruitment on demand, recruitment administration, talent marketing, professional search and talent advisory, and lists industries from biotech and pharma to finance, insurance and manufacturing. It acquired Aspirant RPO (opens in a new tab), a Pittsburgh-based RPO provider, in May 2024.

Alpha Apex Group's RPO page reports 2,000+ placements worldwide and a 43-day average time to fill for full-time hires. Its claim that new candidates arrive in the hiring manager's inbox within 72 hours gives no starting point and no scope. The page does not identify these figures as RPO results and names no RPO client or case.

The page describes RPO programs designed around the client's hiring, from sourcing and screening through onboarding, with analytics and employer branding. Separate pages cover finance RPO (opens in a new tab), which says a tailored program is built within 30 days and reported on weekly, and construction RPO (opens in a new tab) for skilled trades and site roles. Agree the model, service levels and fees directly.

Bowdoin specializes in healthcare and life sciences. Its FAQ (opens in a new tab) says it offers RPO engagements for extra recruitment capacity, high-volume hiring or an embedded talent partner, taking on all or part of the process from strategy to offers and reporting. Its team builds page covers field sales, market access and medical affairs teams for launches and growth.

Its services page presents Bowdoin as a healthcare and life sciences executive search firm, and its client page shows logos without tying them to RPO. No RPO case is published on the pages read, so ask for references from team builds like yours.

In an October 2024 success story, Hueman describes a recruiter-on-demand and project RPO program for a national building-products distributor. Five dedicated recruiters made 60 hires in six months: 27 salaried hires at an average of 33 days and 33 hourly hires at 11 days. Hueman reports a 63% drop in average days to fill, from the client's internal 60 days to 22, and an average cost per hire of $2,210 against a national average of $4,700 that the page does not source.

Its FAQ (opens in a new tab) is the most specific on terms among these providers: the three pricing models above, no annual or per-project hiring minimum, and implementations that typically last 4 to 6 weeks. Hueman reports 1,800+ manufacturing and industrial hires in 2024.

Orion's RPO case study is a download, and the pages read name no RPO client. Its RPO approach page (opens in a new tab) says clients see an average reduction in time to fill of 15 days and in recruiting costs of 35%, without a sample or period, and that its set fee "typically ends up costing 60% to 70% less" than a traditional staffing firm.

It offers end-to-end, project, and modular or hybrid RPO, for manufacturing, life sciences, semiconductors, energy and utilities, and data centers. Orion says all hiring costs roll into a single cost and that you pay only for the resources needed at the time.

1840's case studies describe offshore teams and individual hires, such as an Australian manufacturer hiring three senior leaders in a new market, but none is labeled as RPO.

It offers end-to-end, project, on-demand, selective (modular) and high-volume RPO, says it has helped companies build teams across 150 countries, and also sells global staffing, outsourcing, payroll and compliance services. The page's structured data gives the price as a custom quote.

For Splunk's planned expansion of its Krakow R&D center in 2023, dotLinkers embedded a project manager and five IT recruiters onsite under the Splunk brand. It reports 233 hires onboarded, and 78 specialists joining within six months. Its RPO page also lists case studies for Glovo, Relativity and others.

dotLinkers is an IT recruitment agency with offices in Poland and San Francisco. Its RPO is modular, with individual recruitment modules that can be combined, and it also offers success-fee and fixed-fee recruitment outside RPO.