DISADVANTAGES OF RECRUITMENT PROCESS OUTSOURCE (RPO) IN EMBASSY SECTOR.
Although
the previous article talked about the advantages Recruitment process
outsourcing, in some cases this process does not work as expected. Hence, some
risks arise that associated with the Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) in
the Embassy sector.
Increase
the direct cost is, one major disadvantage which Embassies have to face when
recruit through outsource companies (Rajamäki,R.2017). Cost –saving can be for
the time being (Rajamäki,R.2017). There are times when the company has to
re-invest time and money for the training related to the position, even if the
outsource company is paid for the entire process, including training. When the
issue relates to the Embassy sector, the Embassy where I work had to spent
extra cost and time for provides Bio-metric training for selected candidates. Although
IVS provided all the training related to the Embassy, the technology came from
Embassy’s orgin country and had to train the employees again. Hiring the wrong
candidates also one of issue when recruit through outsourcing (Bhaker,s.k.(2020).
Lower
understand about the value of company and low employee loyalty also can be
disadvantage to the employer (Cocuľová,J.2011). According to the work place
experience to avoid the above mentioned issue, Embassies are tend to sign the
agreement with employees too. Since the recruitment process was carried out by
IVS company, employees must promise to maintain confidentiality in all embassy
information, even if they are legally bound with outsource company.
Reduction
of the employe’s control on the employees is other disadvantage of RPO (ACA
Talent, 2018). As mentioned early, employees are legally attached with
outsource company. As an example, Embassy management had to face influence IVS
on how employees are paid and certain rules and regulations.
Initially,
the company was satisfied with outsource cmpany's culture, nature, etc., but
later disputes may be arise between the two institutions (Bhakhar,S.K.(2020). Under
such circumstances, management of Embassy will face to various difficulties. Once,
the Embassy had worked with another outsource company, some issues were raised
among the two companies about payments and employee control.
Video 1.0 gives more in details of pros & cons of
recruitment process outsourcing.
Video1.1: Outsourcing Pros and Cons
Source: (One Minute Economics, 2019)
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The general perspectives of organisation based researchers are focused on education, skills, training and its association with labour with comparatively limited information on recruitment and selection process as being considered to be of moderate or minimal importance (Gamage, 2014). In the light to the current trends of outsourcing, several processes have transitioned from one organisation to another wherein separate organisations strive to work on a specific task that is actually a small part of operation in a relatively big organisation. In this scenario, outsourcing has a new dimension- work force management for recruitment and selection (Anthony et al., 2013).
ReplyDeleteThank you Surendra for commenting. When the organizational management transfers the responsibility for the recruitment process to the outside service provider has both positive and negative impacts on organization.(Bhaker,S.K.2020)
DeleteDisadvantages of External Recruitment
ReplyDeleteHigher Risk
The external recruitment process can attract candidates who are not relevant or worthy of the open position. Since maximum candidates are total strangers to the recruiter, the risk of brining a misfit onboard cannot be ruled out completely.
Greater Cost
The external recruitment process involves posting jobs on different platforms, coming up with compelling JDs, communicating with candidates, screening resumes, conducting interviews and coming up with an irresistible offer. All of these aspects of the recruitment process are time-consuming, tedious, complicated, and costly.
Time Consuming
The biggest downside of an external recruitment drive is the time taken to fill open positions. Recruiters receive hundreds of resumes for every open position and screening them takes up a lot of time. However, using an applicant tracking system can take this entire screening time from hours to minutes and narrow down your talent tool to include only qualified candidates in a jiffy.
Possibility of Maladjustment
It is possible that your new hires may not be able to adapt to their new working environment and break the ice with their new team members. When recruiters fail to hire a culture fit, new hires often leave the job and need to be replaced, requiring recruiters to hunt for new candidates ( Barcelos , 2019).
Thank you for comment. Organization may not understand the depth of each employees’ specialties. But organization need to be able to ask questions and understand the overall picture of what that employee brings to your company. When get technical help from outsource company, organization can not necessarily as deeply connected to own tech support team. (Rainelli,M.2015)
DeleteAs you might expect, the organization might lose control of how the nominated tasks are being monitored and performed and therefore the trust on the work of the employee hired by the company is very essential to avoid issues and therefore got to view carefully(Tayauova, 2012).
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your commenting on my article. The organization must view carefully when doing out sourcing recruitment. The organization delegates management and control of employees to another out sourcing company.
DeleteBut, selected outsourcing company will not be operate by the same standards and mission that manage your company.(Raineri,S.2019)
According to Hada and Gairola (2015), Another biggest challenge is to hire qualified candidates. Recruiters often contact outstanding candidates regularly to make your emails more difficult to attain out. Furthermore, job seekers who find it challenging to get a job often consider various job opportunities at the same time. You need to make extra efforts to convince uninterested candidates to accept your company instead of your competitors.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dilini for commenting. When the out source company is well experience at what they do, they have many contracts and therefore much more experience on recruitment area of contracting than employer. Hence, employer's lack of experience leads for hidden cost. (Raineri,S.2019)
DeleteLack of customer focus: An outsourced vendor may have to serve many companies and multiple organizations at a time. Therefore, they may lack a complete focus on your organization’s tasks and job assignment (Wongleedee, 2016)
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