Reduction in Recruiting Costs
Sound Advice's RPO services do not contain any of the following fees:

• Contingency fees for placements
• Contractor, temporary, temp-to-hire*
• Administrative or technical overhead
• Job Board/Applicant tracking

(*Unless client would like to engage desired resource through Sound Advice’s contractor services program)
Additionally, Sound Advice RPO team can help with contract(s) negotiations, vendor management and the creation and implementation of an employee referral program.

Decrease Time in Filling Open Requirements
By engaging our RPO services Sound Advice will provide your company with greater cost predictability for planning and budgetary purposes. We will provide your firm with a dedicated client liaison that will work intimately with your hiring managers and senior management to develop a recruiting process that will work best for your corporate culture Services include:

• Candidate Management
• Candidate relationship marketing
• Conduct needs assessments
• Consult on your current staffing process
• Coordinate interviews and schedules
• (phone and in person) of all parties
• Create stages of the interview life cycle
• Define desired hard/soft skills success
• criteria

• Enhance your requisition intake
• processes
• Ensure timely execution of the hiring
• process
• Recruitment industry best practices
• research
• Set compensation parameters
• Set realistic timeline expectations
• Talent Management Consulting

Improved Quality of Candidates Pool
With Sound Advice’s RPO services, your company will have access to a team of specialty recruiters to help work all of your requirements at once rather than constantly prioritizing based on critical need. Our client liaison and team of specialty recruiters will create a constant pipeline of the best candidates that are currently available in the market. Services include:

• Blog selection, posting and monitoring
• Cognitive and behavioral testing
• Design interview guides
• Direct/indirect and diversity sourcing
• Internet data mining
• Job board optimization and management
• Job board selection, posting, and mining
• Job fair/events representation

• Newsgroups selection, posting and monitoring
• Newspaper advertising
• Professional/social networking selection, posting and monitoring
• Skills Assessment
• Skills based computer testing
• Sourcing program design and implementation

Improved Hiring Response Time
Industry data shows on average, an individual recruiter can effective work only 4 – 6 open job requirements at any given time. Sound Advice’s RPO service model will more than double your recruiting capacity enabling on average 8 - 14 requirements being worked at any given time (depending on the complexity of the search). This service also includes:

• Post Offer/On-boarding Activities
• Pres-screening
• Proactive/unique sourcing programs
• Provide real-time updates after each interview

• Schedule interviews
• Seamless on-board processing
• Talent pipelining

Quantifiable Performance Metrics
Sound Advice understands the needs to track and quantify performance results. To that end we employ the industries best applicant tracking system which enables us to provide:

• Candidate response ratio
• Client satisfaction surveys
• Employee satisfaction surveys
• Exit surveys
• Hiring manager surveys
• New hire surveys
• Requisition management

• Results tracking
• Retention surveys
• Source success ratio
• Staffing efficiency ratio for each source
• Survey administration
• Talent inventory
• Time to fill (cycle time)

Risk Management
Sound Advice knows the importance of mitigating your firm’s risk. To that end, Sound Advice can assist your company with:

• 24X7 database uptime
• Benchmark processes against Industry best practices
• Candidate background/credit checks
• Diversity sourcing
• Drug screening
• EEO/AA compliance
• Redundancy in database backup
• Reference checks
• Secure applicant tracking system
• Zero capital investment or infrastructure costs

(*Unless client would like to engage desired resource through Sound Advice’s contractor services program)
Additionally, Sound Advice RPO team can help with contract(s) negotiations, vendor management and the creation and implementation of an employee referral program.