RPO · Recruitment outsourcing

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Services

Embed recruiters, sourcing, and an AI-native ATS into your hiring — scale on demand.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is when you hand all or part of your hiring to an external partner who runs it as an extension of your team. Pitch N Hire delivers RPO by embedding recruiters, sourcing, and its AI-native ATS into your hiring function, scaling capacity up or down on demand while India-based delivery keeps your cost per hire low.

India-based delivery · scale up or down · you keep full visibility on your own ATS.

What is Recruitment Process Outsourcing?

Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a model where you transfer all or part of your hiring to an external partner who runs it as an extension of your own team. Instead of paying an agency per placement, you hand the RPO partner ownership of the process itself — sourcing, screening, interview coordination, reporting, and the technology behind it — across many roles over time. The goal is a faster, more consistent, and more measurable hiring engine than most teams can build and staff in-house on their own.

Pitch N Hire delivers RPO with dedicated recruiters working on our own AI-native applicant tracking system, so you get both the people and the platform in one partnership. Because delivery is India-based, you get experienced recruiting capacity at a lower cost per hire than building the same team locally — while you keep full visibility of every candidate and stage. For a plain-language primer, see what RPO is.

RPO models: end-to-end, project, and on-demand

RPO is not one fixed contract — you choose how much of the funnel to outsource and for how long. The three common shapes let you match the engagement to your hiring plan rather than the other way around.

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End-to-end (enterprise) RPO

We own the full hiring lifecycle across roles, departments, or the whole company — sourcing, screening, interviewing, offers, and reporting — under a long-term partnership.

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Project RPO

A fixed-scope engagement for a specific hiring spike: a new office, a funded growth phase, a product launch, or a seasonal ramp. We staff the surge, then hand back a clean process.

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On-demand / selective RPO

Plug our recruiters into just the stages you need — high-volume sourcing, screening, or scheduling — paid by the hour, role, or hire, without committing your whole funnel.

What does Pitch N Hire's RPO service include?

Sourcing & talent research

Multi-channel sourcing across job boards, LinkedIn, our OnJob talent network, and passive-candidate research to build a qualified pipeline for each role.

Screening & shortlisting

Structured phone and skills screening against your must-haves, so hiring managers only spend time on candidates who genuinely fit.

Interview scheduling & coordination

We run the calendars, reminders, panels, and candidate communication end to end, cutting the admin load off your team.

AI-native ATS & pipeline

Every candidate lives in the Pitch N Hire ATS with clear stages, notes, and collaboration — you get full visibility, not a black box.

Employer branding & candidate experience

Consistent, on-brand outreach and timely feedback so candidates have a good experience whether or not they get hired.

Hiring analytics & reporting

Time-to-fill, source-of-hire, funnel conversion, and pipeline health reported regularly, so you can see exactly what your recruiting spend delivers.

RPO vs in-house recruiting vs a staffing agency

An in-house team gives you the most control and brand knowledge, but it is slow and expensive to build, and it struggles when hiring volume swings up or down. A staffing agency is transactional: it fills individual roles for a per-placement fee and is ideal for occasional or highly specialised openings, but it does not own or improve your process. RPO sits in between — a longer-term partner that embeds into your hiring function, owns the process and technology, flexes capacity with demand, and reports on outcomes.

RPO is closest to hiring your own recruiters, but faster to stand up and easier to scale down. If your need is really about adding vetted engineers to your product team rather than running your hiring pipeline, look at IT staff augmentation or staff augmentation vs managed services instead — RPO is about owning the recruiting process, not delivering the work itself.

How our AI-native stack makes RPO faster and cheaper

Most RPO providers run on whatever ATS the client already has. Pitch N Hire delivers RPO on its own product suite, so recruiters and technology are designed to work together. Three parts of the stack do the heavy lifting:

  • The ATS — a single, collaborative pipeline where every candidate, stage, and note is visible to your team, so RPO never becomes a black box you cannot audit.
  • Intuvos AI interviews — structured, on-demand screening that lets a small recruiting team qualify far more candidates consistently before a human interview.
  • OnJob sourcing — an integrated talent network that widens the top of the funnel without stacking up separate sourcing subscriptions.

Combined with India-based delivery, that means you get more qualified candidates per recruiter and a lower cost per hire than staffing an equivalent in-house team. See how the underlying interviews and assessments and recruitment automation work.

How an RPO engagement works

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Scope & align

We agree on roles, volumes, must-have criteria, service levels, and the model (end-to-end, project, or on-demand) that fits your hiring plan.

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Embed the team & tools

Dedicated recruiters and coordinators plug into your process on the Pitch N Hire ATS, working as an extension of your team under your brand.

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Source, screen & interview

We run the funnel — sourcing, screening, scheduling, and shortlisting — while your hiring managers focus on final interviews and decisions.

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Report, refine & scale

We report on funnel metrics, tune the process, and flex capacity up or down as your hiring needs change through the year.

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FAQ

RPO services — FAQs

What is Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)? +
RPO is when an employer transfers all or part of its recruitment to an external provider who runs it as an extension of the internal team. Unlike a one-off agency placement, an RPO partner takes ownership of the process, tools, and outcomes — sourcing, screening, coordination, and reporting — across many roles over time.
How is RPO different from a staffing agency? +
A staffing agency fills individual openings for a per-placement fee and works transactionally. RPO is a longer-term partnership where the provider embeds into your hiring function, owns the process on your own ATS, and reports on funnel metrics. RPO is built for consistent, ongoing, or high-volume hiring; an agency is better for occasional or highly specialised one-off roles.
How is RPO priced? +
RPO is usually priced by one of three models: a management fee per recruiter or per month for embedded capacity, a cost-per-hire for outcome-based engagements, or a hybrid of the two. Pitch N Hire scopes pricing to your model and volume — talk to our team for a quote; we do not publish flat per-hire numbers because they depend on role mix and scope.
Can I outsource only part of my hiring with RPO? +
Yes. With on-demand or selective RPO you keep some stages in-house and hand us only what you need — for example high-volume sourcing or interview scheduling — and scale the engagement up or down as your pipeline changes.
How does Pitch N Hire's AI-native stack help RPO? +
Our recruiters deliver RPO on the Pitch N Hire ATS with Intuvos AI interviews and OnJob sourcing built in, so screening, scheduling, and pipeline reporting are faster and more consistent. India-based delivery keeps the cost of that dedicated recruiting capacity lower than an in-house build for the same output.
When should I choose RPO instead of building an in-house team? +
RPO makes sense when hiring volume is spiky, growing fast, or hard to justify a full in-house recruiting team for — or when you want an established process and technology from day one. Many companies use RPO to scale hiring during a growth phase, then bring parts back in-house once volume stabilises.
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