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Partnering with Your In-House Team to Scale Smarter
Embedded Team
Brand Alignment
Market Intelligence
Sourcing Support
Access to Talent Pools
Local Expertise
What is included
Our experts work alongside your team - where you need us most: to accelerate hiring, cut costs, and share best practices
Everything You Get
Get the best of both worlds: in-house control with outsourced efficiency. Our Hybrid RPO integrates smoothly, giving you the capacity you need without losing oversight.
Retain control and flexibility
You choose which roles or stages to outsource
Embedded team
Our recruiters work under your brand and in your systems
Scale fast
Adjust capacity up or down in days
Global reach with local expertise
Leverage our international presence and deep local market knowledge
Cut agency spend
Reduce external costs by up to 70% with a scalable partnership
Hire faster and better
Shorter time-to-fill without compromising quality
Bottom line: Hybrid RPO is outsourcing done your way. It lets you keep control while we handle the heavy lifting.
FAQ
Hybrid Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a co-sourced hiring model where your business keeps strategic control of recruitment while outsourcing selected roles or process stages to an embedded RPO partner. It combines in-house oversight with external delivery to improve speed, quality, and cost efficiency.
Full RPO outsources your entire recruitment process to a partner, from sourcing to onboarding. Hybrid RPO only covers the areas you choose - such as sourcing, screening, or certain roles - allowing you to keep strategic hiring functions in-house while boosting delivery capacity where needed.
Project RPO is designed for fixed-term, high-volume hiring campaigns, often tied to a specific business initiative. Hybrid RPO is ongoing and flexible, supporting selected roles or stages over time. It scales up or down as hiring needs change, without a fixed project end date.
On-Demand RPO provides rapid, short-term recruitment support for urgent or unexpected hiring needs. Hybrid RPO is longer-term, embedding recruiters into your team to consistently handle chosen parts of the process. It offers flexibility and continuity, rather than short bursts of recruitment delivery.
Yes. Hybrid RPO allows you to quickly increase or reduce recruiter capacity to match hiring demand. We can ramp up in weeks for hiring spikes and scale back when demand slows, maintaining a cost-effective, flexible recruitment model aligned with your workforce goals.
Not unless you choose to tell them. In Hybrid RPO, embedded recruiters operate under your brand, using your systems and processes. Candidates experience seamless communication that reflects your culture, values, and employer brand at every stage of the recruitment process.
Hiring Challenges HYBRID RPO Solves
Critical roles unfilled
Key positions sitting open for months, slowing down projects and growth.
Teams stretched thin
In-house recruiters juggle too many reqs to give each one proper attention.
Agency costs skyrocketing
Ad-hoc agency hiring drives unpredictable spending and high per-hire fees.
Quality slipping
Rushed hiring processes lead to mismatches and higher attrition.
Expansion hurdles
Expanding into new regions or functions without networks makes hiring painfully slow.
These challenges drain your time, budget, and team morale.
Serendi’s Hybrid RPO is built to turn these around
without you having to build a huge internal team!
We can take on:
Specific job families
(e.g., engineering, sales)
Certain markets or regions
Local or global coverage
Defined process stages
(sourcing, screening, scheduling)
You Stay in Control
Your brand, your systems, your hiring decisions - powered by our expertise, tools, and talent networks.
In Practice
Maybe your HR team keeps ownership of executive hires and final interviews, but Serendi takes over sourcing and screening for all mid-level roles. Or perhaps you ask us to hire an entire department (e.g., a new sales team) while your staff continues to hire for other teams. Any combination is possible – it's Hybrid RPO because it's tailored to your needs.
Seamless Integration in Three Steps
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Optimize & Scale
Tracking performance, refining approach, and scaling to your needs
2
Embed & Execute
We integrate into your workflow and manage agreed functions
1
Define & Plan
Defining your needs and building a focused hiring plan
3
Optimization & Scaling
We don't just deliver - we improve. Key metrics like time-to-shortlist, quality-of-hire, and candidate satisfaction are tracked continuously.
This allows us to refine tactics in real-time while formal quarterly business reviews ensure we adapt to your evolving goals, ensuring lasting value and ROI.
2
Integration & Execution
Specialized recruiters (matched to your sector and language needs) embed directly into your team and your systems (ATS, HR tools, and comms) for a unified workflow under your brand.
They leverage a multi-channel sourcing strategy and convey rigorous screening that follows your competency and culture criteria, with regular updates to hiring managers.
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Discovery & Alignment
A deep-dive workshop to define target roles, markets, and process touchpoints. This ensures our recruiters align perfectly with your culture and goals from day one.
The Hybrid RPO Solution
How It Works
Hybrid RPO is a co-sourced recruitment model where you decide which parts of the process to outsource, and we embed recruiters directly into your team to deliver them.
Ideal for businesses that need to:
Enter new markets rapidly without established local recruitment networks
Secure specialist talent for roles beyond existing sourcing channels
Manage fluctuating hiring volumes caused by seasonal peaks or special projects
Our Hybrid model fully integrates into your hiring ecosystem for a true, ongoing partnership.
This model gives you the best of both worlds: you keep full control of strategy and culture while gaining immediate, flexible capacity to execute your hiring plans.
We partnered with Sudarshan Chemical Industries to scale their specialized teams across 85+ markets, spanning EMEA, the Americas, and APAC.
Serendi helped us secure top talent while eliminating the burden of high agency costs. Their flexible, success-based model means we only pay for real results, making hiring both predictable and stress-free.
Stefan Hamacher
Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Sudarshan
We helped SITA, an aviation IT company, build numerous IT teams worldwide during a 2-year-long and ongoing partnership.
Serendi’s team feels like our own, going beyond transactions with high standards, asking the right questions, and using market data and candidate insights to build our company together.
Malgorzata Mikolajczyk
Head of Talent Acquisition at SITA
We helped Luxembourg National Data Service build its IT department from scratch in 12 months with full alignment across 5 European talent markets.
We worked in an agile manner and nicely adapted depending on the situation and changes. This is how the team dedicated to LNDS went above and beyond for us.
Matthieu Paret
Head Of People at LNDS
End-to-end RPO
Keep strategic roles in-house, outsource the rest
Project RPO
Rapid workforce build for product launches
On-Demand RPO
Scalable hiring capacity whenever needed
Talent Pipelining
Always-on candidate engagement
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The Serendi RPO Journey
We transform the complex into the simple. Our proven, five-phase framework is designed for speed, quality, and seamless integration.
Discover & Plan
We define needs and create a tailored recruitment strategy
Source & Engage
We source and engage candidates using our local market expertise
Select & Assess
We screen rigorously to ensure perfect skill and culture fit
Hire & Onboard
We handle offer management to ensure a great experience
Optimize & Report
We measure KPIs and improve process on the go
The Serendi RPO Journey
Your Blueprint for Hiring Success
We transform the complex into the simple. Our proven, five-phase framework is designed for speed, quality, and seamless integration.
Phase 1: Strategic Discovery
We define your goals to build a winning hiring plan.
Phase 3: Targeted Talent Campaigns
We engage pre-vetted candidates using our local market expertise.
Phase 2: Data-Driven Intelligence
We arm you with market insights for smart, competitive workforce planning.
Phase 4: Rigorous Validation
We ensure every candidate is a perfect skill and culture match.
Phase 5: Flawless Execution
We handle offers and onboarding to guarantee a great candidate experience and higher retention.
Case Snapshot: IT Scale-Up
A global aerotech company partnered with Serendi to overcome critical hiring challenges: hard-to-fill roles, fragmented hiring processes across departments and rapid global expansion.
Roles Filled
1000+
Number of countries
25 / 4 continents
Timeline
3 years
Avg. Days to Present
13
Avg. Days to Fill
32
Avg. Cost of Hire
EUR 4000
