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End-to-End Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) embeds a dedicated talent acquisition function within your organization. We act as your strategic partner, taking full ownership of the entire hiring lifecycle
What You can expect
We act as your embedded talent engine, blending deep European expertise with a human touch to deliver faster, smarter, and more scalable hiring.
Fully Embedded Team
Strategic talent partners embedded into your workflow, not just a transactional service.
End-to-End Process
All stages of the hiring process, from workforce planning, sourcing, interviewing, offer management to onboarding. (and analytics)
AI-Powered Sourcing
Artificial intelligence tools to identify, engage, and qualify potential candidates for your open roles.
Scalable & Flexible
Seamlessly scale the recruitment capacity up or down with your hiring demand.
Data-Driven Insights
Real-time market intelligence and performance metrics to refine your hiring.
Performance-Based Pricing
Pay only for successful outcomes, aligning our costs directly with your results.
Human-First, Tech-Enhanced
The perfect blend of recruiter expertise boosted with advanced AI sourcing tools - not replaced by it.
Performance-based Pricing
A fair, performance-based model - you only pay for successful hires.
Your Dedicated Team
Strategic talent partners embedded in your workflow, not a transactional service.
European DNA and global reach
14 hubs on 3 continents ensuring local compliance, language, and market nuance.
Transparent Metrics
Live dashboards give you full control over KPIs, cost, and diversity.
Why End-to-End RPO Wins
Scalability & Flexibility
Scale your talent acquisition capacity up or - without the delays of hiring or the cost of layoffs.
Integrated Technology
Get a state-of-the-art tech stack without the procurement, licensing, or implementation burden.
Access to Specialized Expertise
Immediately tap into a full team of (experienced) recruiters, sourcers, and market specialists across roles, regions, and technologies.
Performance-based Cost Structure
Replace the high, fixed costs of internal recruiters, technology, and training by variable, success-based fees.
Enhanced Quality of Hire & Employer Brand
Leverage proven methodologies to consistently attract higher-quality candidates (and improve your employer brand).
Mitigated Risk & Continous Innovation
Offload compliance, data security, and market volatility risks to your partner. Your recruitment stays ahead of the curve with continuous updates.
40%
Reduced Hiring Costs
You significantly lower your spend on agencies, job ads, and internal recruitment overhead.
30%
Faster Time-to-Hire
You fill open roles weeks sooner, keeping your business on track.
92%
Hiring Manager Satisfaction
The vast majority of your internal managers are happy with the speed and quality of your recruitment.
4x
More Candidates
You gain access to a dramatically larger pipeline of qualified talent rhough AI-powered sourcing.
Results You Can Expect
Our End-to-End RPO partnership is engineered for measurable, sustained improvement across your most critical hiring metrics.
* Measured across Serendi’s End-to-end RPO programs over the last 2 years.
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
Are these situations familiar to you?
A faster, leaner process that cuts time-to-hire by 40% and cost-per-hire by 30%+.
Free your HR team from administrative recruitment tasks so they can focus on strategic HR topics.
AI-driven sourcing & vetting for superior candidate matches.
End-to-End RPO solves the critical challenge of achieving hiring quality with limited budgets by replacing high fixed costs with predictable variable costs that scale with need.
Seamless hiring across Europe, minus the complexity.
Candidate Pipeline (Health)
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Knowledge transfer
Playbooks + recruiter upskilling
None
Internal only
Processes maturity
Documented, data-driven, audited
Transactional
Often ad-hoc
Brand alignment
Seamless, recruiters use client email & EVP
Low, agency-branded
Varies by manager
Time-to-hire
30 days
60 days
55 days
Cost-per-hire
€4,300 (-45%)
€7,800
€7,000
KPI / Advantage
End-to-End RPO
Contingency Agencies
Traditional In-House
Data represents three-year averages from Serendi projects and industry benchmarks across various industries and regions.
Hybrid 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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FAQ
RPO is like building an in-house recruitment team, while agencies are more like takeout services. Agencies fill individual roles reactively, charging 20-25% per hire, whereas RPO embeds a dedicated recruitment function inside your business to manage the entire hiring process for a predictable fee tied to speed, cost, and quality metrics.
Absolutely not. In fact, you’ll gain more control and visibility. You maintain full strategic oversight, approve every shortlist and offer, and own all candidate data. We handle the operational heavy lifting, providing you with real-time dashboards and KPI reports. It’s the control of an in-house team without the administrative burden.
You do. Always. Our role is to ensure your hiring managers have a pipeline of perfectly qualified, pre-vetted candidates and the data-driven insights to choose confidently. We provide the process, people, and expertise, but the final say on every hire is always yours.
We provide a single partner with full accountability for the entire recruitment lifecycle. This includes:
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Strategy: Workforce planning, recruitment marketing, and diversity goal setting.
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Execution: Active candidate sourcing, comprehensive screening, interviewing, and assessment coordination.
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Completion: Offer management, negotiation, and onboarding support.
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Analysis: Real-time reporting on cost-per-hire, time-to-fill, quality, and overall pipeline health. Nothing is left to chance.
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In practice, these terms are often used interchangeably to describe a full-lifecycle outsourcing model. A subtle distinction is that Enterprise RPO can imply a global, multi-region scope across an entire organization, while End-to-End RPO emphasizes the completeness of the service (from planning to onboarding) and can be perfectly sized for a specific division, region, or project.
We can launch a pilot program within days, not months. Our priority is to demonstrate value and build trust quickly, starting with your most critical hiring needs.
Yes, seamlessly, and in both directions. This is a core advantage of our model. We can rapidly scale resources monthly to support a sudden growth spurt or a new market entry, and just as efficiently scale down during quieter periods. This ensures maximum efficiency with no wasted resources or cost.
Hiring Challenges End-to-End RPO Solution Solves
Limited HR capacity
Our embedded team absorbs hiring volume and admin tasks, freeing your HR team to focus on strategic priorities.
Slow and costly hiring
Our streamlined processes and active talent pools cut time-to-hire and eliminate agency spend, reducing cost-per-hire by 40%+.
Inconsistent candidate quality
We go beyond CVs to assess both skill and culture fit, increasing hiring manager satisfaction and reducing early-stage turnover by up to 50%.
Lack of Market Insight
We provide real-time labor data and salary benchmarks to guide every hiring decision with confidence.
Hiring Challenges End-to-End RPO Solution Solves
Our streamlined processes and active talent pools cut time-to-hire and eliminate agency spend, reducing cost-per-hire by 40%+.
Our embedded team absorbs hiring volume and admin tasks, freeing your HR team to focus on strategic priorities.
We go beyond CVs to assess both skill and culture fit, increasing hiring manager satisfaction and reducing early-stage turnover by up to 50%.
We provide real-time labor data and salary benchmarks to guide every hiring decision with confidence.
Hiring Challenges End-to-End RPO Solution Solves
Slow and costly hiring
Our streamlined processes and active talent pools cut time-to-hire and eliminate agency spend, reducing cost-per-hire by 40%+.
Slow and costly hiring
Our streamlined processes and active talent pools cut time-to-hire and eliminate agency spend, reducing cost-per-hire by 40%+.
Slow and costly hiring
Our streamlined processes and active talent pools cut time-to-hire and eliminate agency spend, reducing cost-per-hire by 40%+.
Hiring Challenges End-to-End RPO SOLUTION Solves
We provide real-time labor data and salary benchmarks to guide every hiring decision with confidence.
Lack of market Insight
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We provide real-time labor data and salary benchmarks to guide every hiring decision with confidence.
Inconsistent candidate quality
Click to see solution
Our streamlined processes and active talent pools cut time-to-hire and eliminate agency spend, reducing cost-per-hire by 40%+.
Slow and costly hiring
Click to see solution
Our embedded team absorbs hiring volume and admin tasks, freeing your HR team to focus on strategic priorities.
Limited HR capacity
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Why End-to-End Beats Every Other Option
First-year attrition
< 5% (-33%)
7 %
11 %
9%
Knowledge transfer
Playbooks + recruiter upskilling
Some
None
Internal only
Processes maturity
Documented, data-driven, audited
Mixed
Transactional
Often ad-hoc
Brand alignment
Seamless
Partial
Low, agency-branded
Varies by manager
Time-to-hire
30 days
45 days
60 days
55 days
Cost-per-hire
€4,300 (-45%)
€5,500 (-25%)
€7,800
€7,000
KPI / Advantage
End-to-End RPO
Hybrid RPO
Contingency Agencies
Traditional In-House
* Data represents three-year averages from Serendi projects and industry benchmarks across various industries and regions.
Challenge
Business impact
Long vacancy cycles
Direct revenue loss and stalled expansion. Critical projects sit idle because you can't find the right talent fast enough, missing crucial time-to-market windows.
Fragmented agency spend
A massive, unpredictable drain on your budget. 20-25% fees per hire add up exponentially, draining resources that could be invested in growth, not just recruitment.
Poor cross-border insight
Compliance risks and costly mismatches. Without local expertise, you risk GDPR fines, offer the wrong compensation, and hire candidates who aren't a cultural fit, leading to quick attrition.
Invisible processes
Wasted existing authority and zero passive candidate flow. Your career pages and job ads have untapped SEO value, failing to attract qualified applicants who are not actively searching.
Why Traditional Hiring Fails at European Scale
Below are the four hiring pitfalls that keep companies from growing - and exactly how we fix them.
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.
Our End-to-End RPO Solution:
Your Fully Embedded Talent Engine
We don't just fill roles - we transform your hiring into a strategic, scalable engine for growth. Our team of dedicated recruiters embeds directly into your workflow, owning the hiring lifecycle from planning to onboarding, all tailored to your unique culture and ambitious goals.
Here’s how we deliver measurable results:
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Seamless Hiring & Onboarding Excellence
Turn accepted offers into productive, retained employees from day one.
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Streamlined offer management and negotiation
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GDPR-compliant paperwork and smooth pre-boarding
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Customized onboarding playbooks for higher retention
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30-day check-ins to ensure new hire success
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Objective Selection & Data-Driven Assessment
Move beyond gut feelings to identify top performers who will stay and thrive.
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Structured competency-based interviews
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Role-specific skills testing and task assessments
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In-depth culture adds screens to ensure team fit
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Proactive Sourcing & Authentic Engagement
Build a perpetual talent pipeline so you never start from zero.
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“Always-on” candidate nurturing with personalized outreach
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Local market expertise across European talent pools
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Employer-brand campaigns that attract the right talent
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Strategic Workforce Planning & Forecasting
Eliminate reactive hiring and align talent with business strategy.
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Talent demand mapping to anticipate your needs
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Localized salary benchmarking for competitive offers
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Diversity goal setting and achievement tracking
Your Hiring, just
Better
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
End-to-End RPO PROCESS
SIMPLIFIED
We fully embed dedicated recruiters into your organization, managing your entire hiring lifecycle: planning, sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding. Tailored to your culture and goals.
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Discover & Plan
Talent demand mapping, salary benchmarks, hiring targets.
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Source & Engage
Build active pipelines, run client-branded multi-channel outreach, and amplify EVP.
3
Select & Assess
Structured interviews, skills and culture assessment.
4
Hire & Onboard
Offer management, paperwork, onboarding playbooks, 90-day retention checks.
5
Optimize & Report
Live dashboards, KPI reviews, continuous improvement.