Screened staff on site in as little as 60 minutes. First two hours free if they are not right.
Recruitment process outsourcing built for New Zealand SMEs. Fixed fees, no percentage placements, an embedded recruiter exactly when you need one.
The trigger is rarely “we would like an RPO partner”. It is a growth plan, a resignation, or twenty roles that cannot wait for a full-time recruiter to be hired. Traditional agencies will take them — at 15–20% of salary each.
We spent years as the in-house people who paid those invoices. On-demand fixed-cost recruitment — RPO — is the option we wished existed for SMEs that are not running an enterprise HR centre.
RPO means we run hiring as an extension of your team for a defined period or volume, on a fixed fee, instead of charging a percentage of each salary. You keep the brand and the decision. We run the pipeline.
That is the whole definition we need on this page. The models, the honest “when it does not fit”, and the comparison to an internal recruiter live in what is RPO. This page stays in the second person: what we do for you.
Headcount, roles, locations, weeks. We price the block, not a mystery retainer.
We source and screen as your recruiting team. Line managers keep interviews.
One pipeline, one weekly status. You see what is live. We do not hide the book.
When the burst ends or you hire an HR person, the engagement ends. No leftover vendor.
The people who run this are the same operators on the team — ex-in-house HR, not a call-centre bench.
A block of permanent or fixed-term hires — production and warehouse first. One process, one fee. The write-up is on case studies.
Interim recruiting cover for a defined stretch. Vacancies keep moving while you decide the permanent HR shape.
Fixed-fee permanent recruitment when you already know the headcount and you do not want percentage invoices stacking.
| Traditional agency | Our RPO | |
|---|---|---|
| Fee | 15–20% of salary per hire | Fixed fee for the scoped block |
| Who owns the pipeline | The agency book | You see it weekly |
| Brand | Often the agency’s | Yours |
| Best for | One hard-to-fill role | Volume, cover, a defined campaign |
| When it is wrong | Twenty hires at once | A single specialist search, or staff needed tonight — that is labour hire |
No. The SME version is a scoped block: volume hiring, cover when HR leaves, or a permanent campaign you do not want to staff internally. It is not an enterprise outsourcing programme with a 40-person vendor team.
The category, including when it is the wrong tool, is in what is RPO.
No. You keep the brand and the yes. We run sourcing, screening and coordination as an extension of your team for the period we scoped.
An agency invoices a percentage of salary per placement. RPO is a fixed fee for a defined scope. Five hires at $70,000 and 15–20% is $52,500–$70,000. The same block under a fixed fee is a different conversation — see RPO pricing.
When you need people on site this week, not a hiring campaign. Labour hire is hours. RPO is weeks. Do not buy RPO for a night-shift no-show.
Bring headcount, locations and the date you need people starting. We will tell you if labour hire is the better tool.
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