NelsonHall, the leading global BPO and IT outsourcing analyst firm, has today launched a new tool to assist strategic sourcing managers in assessing vendor capability in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) services.

The NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool (NEAT) for RPO is now available to NelsonHall clients, and is also available for a period free-of-charge to buy-side organizations through NelsonHall and through its partners SIG , SSON and APA.

The tool supports a number of potential RPO requirements, specifically addressing the needs of organizations with strong requirements for global RPO capability, a focus on candidate care, and a focus on talent management.

Suppliers of RPO services covered by this NEAT include ADP RPO, Alexander Mann, Allegis Global Solutions, Aon Hewitt, Cielo, Futurestep, Hudson, IBM, KellyOCG, ManpowerGroup, Novotus, PeopleScout, PeopleStrong, Seven Step RPO, and WilsonHCG.

The NelsonHall NEAT tool for RPO is part of NelsonHall’s “Speed-to-Source” initiative. The tool sits at the front-end of the vendor screening process and consists of a two-axis model: assessing vendors against their “ability to deliver immediate benefit” to buy-side organizations and their “ability to deliver innovation in support of client-specific requirements”.

The vendors are scored against a wide range of criteria, establishing a number of scenarios, each representing a different business situation or client business need.

To add further value, the NEAT tool enables buy-side organizations to input their own weightings and tailor the RPO dataset to their specific requirements across over 40 individual vendor evaluation criteria. Using the interactive web-based tool, sourcing managers can configure the RPO NEAT evaluations in accordance with their own priorities and business requirements for service offerings, benefits, delivery capability and other criteria.

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About NelsonHall:

NelsonHall is the leading Business Process Services (BPS) and IT services (ITS) research firm with analysts in the U.S., U.K., and Continental Europe. The company takes a global approach to analysis of vendors and outsourcing markets and is widely respected for the quality and depth of its research.

In addition, with its “Speed-to-Source” initiative, NelsonHall is helping buy-side organizations significantly reduce the time and cost associated with Business Process Services and IT Services sourcing projects.

Media:NelsonHallMark EllisPhone +44 (0)1344 393 220Email: mark.ellis@nelson-hall.com