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Welcome to "Time to Hire," a dynamic and insightful podcast created by the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association (RPOA) specifically for talent acquisition professionals to keep them well-informed about the latest industry trends and best practices.
In each episode, RPOA Executive Director, Lamees Abourahma, hosts prodigious talent leaders to share talent market intelligence and innovative recruitment approaches. Tune in to the podcast to help you enhance your hiring processes, strengthen your employer brand, and innovate your talent strategy.
Whether you're a seasoned talent acquisition professional or just starting in the field, "Time to Hire" provides an invaluable platform to expand your knowledge, learn from industry leaders, and stay up-to-date with the rapidly changing world of recruitment.
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In this episode of Time to Hire, acclaimed RPO leaders Kris Fox and Zach Coffey at Hueman join Lamees to discuss best practices for successfully implementing an external partnership. They will share valuable tips on ensuring a successful external recruitment (RPO implementation) and emphasize the importance of setting clear goals, building a strong team, and establishing a solid project plan. These tips help create a foundation to support your new implementation. Hueman, a leading national p...
In this episode of Time to Hire, Lamees Abourahma is delighted to welcome back to the program two highly acclaimed RPO leaders Mike Foster, Accounts Director, and Justin King Director of Solution Design at Advanced RPO. Mike and Justin will help you understand how a to analyze talent acquisition (TA) programs to create strategic advantages using a pragmatic recruitment scorecard. Advanced RPO, a leading RPO provider and an RPOA gold member since 2015. Intro What is The Recruitment Scorecard...
In 2023, the global RPO market size declined by 7 to 9 percent. Despite this downturn, the future of RPO is bright. According to Everest Group, the compounded average growth rate for RPO is projected to climb to 15 percent by 2027, forecasting the global RPO market to reach about $10 billion. In this episode of the Time to Hire podcast, guest speakers share strategies on marketing and selling RPO during an economic downturn and provide powerful advice to prepare for the rebound. Spea...
In 2023, the RPOA partnered with Lighthouse Research and Advisory for the second year on the RPO Value and Insights Study, which provides data-driven insights into RPO buyers' current value and buying considerations. The 37-page research report is available to download for FREE from the RPOA website; click the link in the show notes. In this episode, Lamees Abourahma welcomes chief analyst Ben Eubanks from LightHouse, RPO leaders Pam Verhoff, President of Advanced RPO, and Jason Krumweide, E...
In this episode of Time to Hire, acclaimed RPO leader Zach Coffey at Hueman joins host Lamees Abourahma to take you through the critical elements of creating a candidate persona based on the skills and personality attributes of those who succeed in a specific role Intro What is a Candidate Persona? [5:06} Why are Candidate Personas Important [5:43] Creating a Candidate Persona [6:45] Candidate Persona of a Train Conductor [12:27] Candidate Persona Questions [14:51] How Candidates Search...
In this episode, Jason Krumwiede, a renowned RPO leader from Broadleaf Results, joins Lamees Abourahma to explore the world of direct sourcing for successful contingent labor hiring, providing applicable best practices and a hopeful outlook. Intro: [00:00] Topic #1: A Whole Lot of Confusion Around Direct Sourcing [5:53] Topic #2: Trends in Direct Sourcing [6:48] Topic #3: What Does a Typical Workforce Look Like [9:43] Topic #4: What are Total Talent Management Services (TTM)? [10:50] Topic #5...
In this episode, Lamees Abourahma is joined by Trent Cotton, Vice President of talent and culture at HatchWorks, Kelly Berlage, Vice President of global talent acquisition at Lineage Logistics, Rob Navarette, Global Head of global service delivery, recruitment and transformation, technology and operations for WTW, and Zach Chertok, workforce analyst for IDC, to explore how employers can best navigate current hiring challenges and understand the benefits of recruitment process outsourcing(RPO)...
In 2026, demand for emerging skills is accelerating even as overall hiring slows—yet only 21% of companies have fully adopted skills-based hiring, according to LinkedIn’s 2024 Future of Recruiting report. Talent acquisition and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) teams face a widening execution gap as AI and automation create new roles faster than traditional, credential-based hiring can keep up. Only a small share of employers are redesigning sourcing, screening, and workforce planning to ...
Did you know that 81% of jobs on Indeed are now matched to candidates based on skills, not degrees? Yet talent acquisition leaders struggle as employer expectations outpace candidate realities—creating a crisis where high hopes and rigid requirements collide. With only a small fraction of job seekers filling out "what do you want to do" fields on job sites (according to Indeed), recruitment faces unprecedented disconnect, making it urgent for employers to rethink old hiring playbooks. Only by...
The RPO landscape faces a reckoning: according to Nelson Hall, 60% of buyers now view providers as largely interchangeable—a figure underscoring industry-wide commoditization. As Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) leaders struggle to differentiate amidst shrinking margins and rapid AI transformation, this crisis demands urgent adaptation. Only forward-thinking providers who evolve beyond transactional models can unlock lasting client value and seize tomorrow’s opportunity in an era where b...
AI-driven recruiting is rewriting the rules of talent acquisition. At the 2025 RPOA Annual Conference, we learned of an innovative AI hiring platform that made 5,201 hires in just 12 hours, compared to only 40 by a traditional human team (according to Stan Wasalski, Co-founder, Scotty AI). Recruitment organizations worldwide are confronting a crisis: AI digital workers now outperform humans not only in speed, but in empathy and judgment. Only RPOs (recruitment process outsourcing providers) e...
Global RPO revenue growth took a stark turn, with 2024 marking a -13% drop and 2025 showing flat or even negative growth (according to multiple industry analysts). As the RPO industry faces unstable markets, leaders must navigate economic uncertainty, mounting client caution, and the soaring demand for frontline hiring. Only those who adapt strategy and blend innovation with trusted relationships will seize the opportunities in this challenging climate. Confronting this turbulence, this episo...
AI adoption is transforming recruitment, yet 30+ new global AI regulations introduced in just four years reveal a sector racing to manage unprecedented risk. Recruitment leaders grapple with the mounting challenge of implementing trustworthy AI. Only organizations investing in robust governance strategies today will seize tomorrow’s opportunities, while others face stalled innovation and escalating compliance threats. How can recruitment process outsourcing leaders (RPOs) innovate without los...
Today’s talent acquisition landscape is experiencing rapid disruption. Did you know that 90% of employees use generative AI, yet only 40% of enterprises provide official access, according to industry research? Talent leaders face a mounting crisis: adoption is outpacing oversight, creating real “shadow AI” and data security risks. With 90-99% of the workforce lacking formal backgrounds in data and AI, only organizations prepared for this revolution will seize emerging opportunities. In this s...
Across the talent acquisition landscape, 77% of companies report difficulty keeping teams right-sized amid unpredictable hiring cycles, according to the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association (RPOA). Recruiting leaders confront a perfect storm: skills gaps are widening, candidate fraud is on the rise, and AI disrupts every facet of hiring. Only 42% of organizations proactively modernize their recruitment processes when volatility strikes, putting business agility and resilience at risk. ...
A handful of $500 million-plus Series A rounds in AI highlight capital concentrating into a small set of hyperscale bets. Tech hiring pipelines expand at unnatural speed as AI-focused candidates flood postings, creating a volume shock that overwhelms screening systems. Recruiters confront shifting skill demands, hyper-competitive compensation dynamics, and application pools engineered by AI tools rather than genuine qualifications. Only a low single-digit share of applicants, on average, reac...
A majority of talent acquisition (TA) leaders lack hiring strategies ready for market fluctuations. This data expose how quickly teams lose traction when demand drops. Today’s talent acquisition teams face shrinking req loads, rising pressure to prove value, and unpredictable workforce needs, a combination driving a widening performance gap. Only a small fraction leverages data-driven workforce planning to convert this slowdown into strategic momentum, leaving most employers vulnerable to esc...
In high-growth technology sectors, talent acquisition leaders face an unprecedented scaling challenge: how can organizations rapidly deploy recruiting capacity while maintaining quality and cultural fit? The RPOA's 2025 RPO Trends Report shows that relationship quality ranks as the top factor in RPO partnership success. Technology companies scaling warehouse automation and robotics operations struggle to build recruiting teams fast enough to support 30+ site deployments across multiple states...
Research shows referred candidates get hired at a rate of 30% compared to just 7% for applicants sourced through traditional job boards. Today's employers face an unprecedented challenge: quality candidates no longer fill the top of the funnel the way they once did, rendering traditional job board strategies obsolete. Candidates have stopped downloading job board apps and browsing corporate career sites. Instead, they rely on trust, transparency, and referrals from their professional n...
Your Employer Brand Bleeds Talent—And You Don't Even Know It According to Lighthouse Research & Advisory, 83% of candidates distrust employer brand authenticity—a crisis that costs organizations their best talent before interviews even begin. Talent acquisition leaders confront a stark reality: while 72% of professionals refuse to apply to companies with negative reputations (even when unemployed), most organizations treat employer branding as an afterthought rather than a strategic imper...
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