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PeopleScout - Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Vendor Analysis
published on Jan 03, 2025
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Report Overview:
This NelsonHall assessment analyzes PeopleScout's offerings and capabilities in Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s RPO profile on PeopleScout is a comprehensive assessment of PeopleScout’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of PeopleScout and identifying vendor suitability for RPO RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the RPO sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of PeopleScout’s RPO offerings, capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, challenges, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base, including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization, including the location of delivery centers.
Key Findings & Highlights:
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue company, is a global talent solutions provider whose service offerings include the following:
- Recruitment process outsourcing
- Total workforce solutions
- Talent advisory services
- Amplifiers, modular recruitment solutions
- MSP solutions
- Early career solutions
- PeopleScout Accelerate rapidly deployed technology-enabled recruitment solution
- Apex professional search.
The Affinix total talent technology suite supports PeopleScout’s workforce solutions, providing a mobile-first, cloud-based candidate experience, streamlining the sourcing process, and delivering program analytics to inform strategic decisions. Affinix delivers speed and scalability while leveraging AI, recruitment marketing, ML, predictive analytics, and other emerging technology with one-point ATS and VMS integration and single sign-on.
PeopleScout is a business of its parent organization, TrueBlue. The other brands and services within the TrueBlue organization include:
- PeopleReady - an on-demand, temporary workforce provider supporting general and skilled tradespeople
- Staff Management/SMX - a high-volume onsite contingent workforce staffing provider for manufacturing, distribution, and fulfillment facilities across North America
- Centerline - commercial and non-commercial driver staffing provider supporting the transportation and logistics industries in the U.S.
- SIMOS - a performance-based staffing partner that provides contingent workforce solutions for warehousing and distribution, e-commerce, returns processing, and third-party logistics.
PeopleScout continues transforming its business, leveraging its historical core strengths, such as high-volume hiring and Talent Advisory services while aligning its solutions with client needs in today’s talent landscape.
The company leverages its AI-enabled proprietary technology suite, Affinix, to deliver a consumer-like candidate experience and dedicated service delivery teams, working as an integrated partner with its clients. ~75% of PeopleScout’s programs are ongoing RPO services with contract terms over one year. The remaining programs comprise project RPO engagements under one year in duration. Pricing typically consists of a fee for each hire and talent consulting fees.