When we started WSG the agency recruiting landscape was littered with low integrity recruiting companies that bounced candidates (and flipping resumes) to multiple competitor companies, and ‘RPO’ organizations that focused on low cost TA staff augmentation to make a margin. Not much has changed in the past 15 years…

William Sage Group redefined how a Talent Acquisition firm should engage with a client, and were doing RPO before it was RPO. We believe any engagement is an insourced partnership, as we become a part of our client’s organizations. We call it RPP: Recruitment Process Partnership. We don’t consider ourselves ‘outsourced’. Traditional RPO’s utilize subcontracted teams and focus on margin in their engagements. We focus on executing against our client’s business outcome objectives and staff projects with WSG employees who have a 15+ year history with us.

While we are happy to provide resources that flex with our client’s hiring demand; We are not a staff-augmentation company, or a ‘rent-a-recruiter’ RPO. Our clients recognize the difference. We are an insourced partner, focused on hiring the right talent versus ‘filling the role’.

Our RPP engagements focus on special projects, long-term partnerships, and in some cases we are the talent acquisition team for our clients.

Our RPP engagements often overlap with solutions we provide in our Organizational Talent Assessment, and TA Consulting solutions - and are customized to the unique needs of our clients. In addition to those elements, Recruitment Process Partnership projects typically include:

• TA leadership, project management, and ELT consulting
• Org redesign
• Efficiencies and economies of scale in the recruiting process
• Turn-key solutions, leveraging our intact team and well-established engagement model
• Project leadership, metrics and KPI design

Examples of RPP Engagements

Teradata – 6 year continuous partnership

• Acting leader in Global TA
• Contracted for Exec and GTM recruiting initially. Expanded to all BU’s
• Responsible for oversight of 2,000+ annual hires globally in Sales, Product Engineering, G&A, Finance, IT, and Marketing
• Replaced Korn Ferry RPO in EMEA
  • William Sage Group was solicited to TRAIN the Korn Ferry recruiting team and project leadership due to lack of success and failed implementation
  • Ultimately replaced a failed multi-million dollar RPO engagement to yield success in recruiting process, business engagement, and hire success
• Responsible for catalyzing transformation to cloud by hiring top sales, engineering, and executive leadership talent

SAS – 10-year continuous partnership

• Leaders in TA and Sales Organization for 9 consecutive years
• Built TA team aligned to the business, sponsored by the CRO and CHRO
• Optimized operational process for recruitment
• Catalyzed SAS’ business transformation to new business development model and enterprise sales versus reactive order taking GTM approach
• Helped build and initialize Sales academy program
• Eliminated $50M external agency spend, 300+ agency contracts extinguished
• Efforts resulted in 80% increase in employee retention and productivity. Human capital that generated 3X increase in revenues focused on new business, new technology, and emerging market growth