Graduate Recruitment: How RPO Can Help Your Business Win the War for Talent

In today's job market, competition for the best graduate talent is fierce. With more and more graduates entering the workforce each year, and the largest employers consolidating their recruitment efforts, it can be tough for smaller businesses to stand out. That's where Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) providers like xPO Talent Solutions come in. By responding to market trends, strengthening employer brands, and focusing on the candidate experience, RPO providers can help businesses win the war for talent.

xPO Talent Solutions: Australia's leading provider of graduate recruitment and RPO services

With over 60 years' collective experience in graduate recruitment and assessment services, xPO Talent Solutions is Australia's leading provider of graduate recruitment and RPO services. We provide clients with a fully tailored assessment methodology based on a deep understanding of what success looks like for each role and cohort. Our team of over 20 psychologists, supported by HR consultants and recruitment specialists, design and deliver graduate recruitment and RPO programs that are grounded in best-practice and market-leading innovation.

Our solutions are designed to be responsive and enable the rapid deployment of high-quality, volume resources while adhering to our clients' compliance and probity requirements. We can scale our services to your needs with minimal notice, and we can also offer self-sufficient delivery models, transferring our capability to your HR teams.

Our results speak for themselves

Over the past 12 months, xPO Talent Solutions has managed over 57,000 graduate applications, conducted over 154,000 psychometric assessments, facilitated and screened over 25,000 video interviews, conducted over 44,000 reference checks, hosted over 16,000 candidates through virtual assessment centres, and successfully supported the placement of over 12,000 candidates for roles in Australia.

Graduate recruitment and emerging talent: technology and user experience design

At xPO Talent Solutions, we strive to bring global best practice and thought leadership to every program that we design and deliver. We focus heavily on the candidate experience from the first encounter with your employer brand to the end of the onboarding process. We are agnostic when it comes to technology and can run our programs on existing client core technology or design bespoke platforms. We work with you to decide what your candidate experience will look and feel like.

The right technology can elevate your candidate experience to a level that can help you attract and retain the best graduate talent. Tools such as marketing automation platforms, video messages, AI chatbots, and data-driven workforce planning can help you engage candidates, provide them with information and instant responses, and score them based on their level of engagement.

Assessment technology: Gateway

At xPO Talent Solutions, we know that the "how" of assessing candidates is just as important as the "what." That's why we use Chandler Macleod's online assessment platform "Assessment Gateway" to administer a range of psychological assessments tailored to our clients' specific needs. Assessment Gateway provides self-serve access, immediate results, customised branding, and reporting, as well as better candidate and user experiences.

Graduate talent marketing

At xPO Talent Solutions, we partner with GradConnection and the Financial Review to deliver the Top100 Graduate Employers and Future Leaders Competition and Awards Night. This event showcases cutting-edge assessment centre approaches every year and increases the marketing focus we can bring to our graduate recruitment customers.

We also maintain strong relationships with tertiary-level institutions and engage in proactive campus recruitment. By liaising with the offices and career sites of University Career Services, advertising on campus news boards and websites, coordinating client brand representation at campus job fairs and recruiting events, and managing full on-campus programs, we help our clients access the best graduate talent available.