Bringing RPO Services and Technology to the SME Marketplace

Until recently, RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) has been something that only large corporates would do. With the likes of Alexander Mann Solutions targeting mostly FTSE 250 companies, agencies seemed to be the only option for smaller businesses wanting to source candidates through a third party. The alternative of implementing a fully-functional online recruitment strategy also seemed out of reach both from a cost and time-investment point of view for smaller businesses.

BlueGlue was founded in early 2005 with the core aim to take the very best aspects of large-scale RPO models and online recruitment technology and deliver them in such a way to would make the proposition attractive, affordable, and low-risk for hi-tech SME businesses.

The result is BlueGlueís own unique recruitment web-portal and backed up by its internal account management structure.

Unlike traditional outsourced recruitment providers, BlueGlue does not rely heavily on third party agencies to generate candidates. Instead BlueGlue makes use of its own unique recruitment web-portal combined with the latest online recruitment technology to fulfil over 96% of its customer requirements directly. Subsequently, customers benefit from substantial cost-savings and significantly improved levels of efficiency in the hiring process.

While the BlueGlue portal does not remove the valuable human element of hiring, it does bring efficiencies in the administration element which frees up HR and hiring managers alike to focus on their core business activities.

The BlueGlue system saves time on traditional recruitment administration tasks by automating them. With the automated processing of activities such as writing and placing multiple job-board adverts, sifting CV databases, and importing candidate files from advert responses, BlueGlue Account Managers are freed up to concentrate entirely on client delivery and maintaining high levels of customer service.

To date BlueGlue has acquired an active core of 34 customers with new companies continuing to sign regularly. What makes the BlueGlue proposition so attractive is that despite carrying many of the hallmarks of classic outsource agreements; there are no upfront costs and no minimum use criteria. For SMEís this provides a real breakthrough because BlueGlue delivers the benefits of the very latest recruitment technology through a service that is truly scalable ñ regardless of whether you employ 5 people or 500.