From Recruiting Support to a Strategic Talent Acquisition Partnership
Challenge: Expanding recruiting capacity to meet complex, high-volume and specialized hiring needs.
This historic and iconic American company, whose nuclear power-related services brand we support, needed more than additional recruiter capacity. The business was navigating high-volume hiring needs, difficult-to-fill technical roles, attrition challenges, and time-sensitive workforce demands across multiple functions and locations.
The need was not simply to manage a growing number of open requisitions. The organization needed a recruiting partner that could adapt quickly as priorities shifted, build qualified talent pipelines, and bring a more proactive approach to complex hiring challenges that vary by skill set and volume levels.
That meant being able to support both day-to-day recruiting needs and larger workforce initiatives, often with little lead time.
Solution: Building a flexible recruiting partnership that could scale with the organization’s changing workforce needs.
Advanced RPO partnered with the organization as an extension of its internal talent acquisition function, initially providing recruiting support for individual roles and projects before expanding across a much broader range of business needs.
Today, we support hiring across engineering, IT, manufacturing, project and program management, procurement, field services, EHS, and other specialized functions.
The team works closely with hiring managers to understand the role, identify the right candidate profile, build targeted pipelines, and keep the recruiting process moving from the initial intake call with the hiring manager through onboarding. Our recruiters use proactive sourcing, targeted job advertising, labor market research, and community partnerships to reach qualified talent.
The partnership has also evolved to support larger, more specialized initiatives. For a major manufacturing hiring initiative, we worked alongside site leadership to develop a recruiting strategy designed to meet aggressive hiring goals without disrupting day-to-day plant operations. The team provided dedicated recruiting, screening, scheduling, and interview support to help accelerate hiring and achieve the mission-critical hiring milestones the plant needed to meet its production output goals.
During the initiative, Advanced RPO delivered 41 offers in 29 days to help address an urgent need for skilled production operators.
Advanced RPO has also helped strengthen longer-term technical talent pipelines through relationships with organizations including trade schools, community colleges, and technical colleges to establish healthy pipelines of skilled electricians, IT professionals, and other skilled trades roles for several sites across the country.
The company’s supply chain group has a large hiring initiative over the next five years to support significant planned growth and meet the demands for its products and services. Our hiring results have earned us trust and confidence, and the working partnership has opened doors for us and expanded our footprint across the enterprise.
The ability to step into different challenges and adjust the recruiting approach has become a defining part of the partnership.
Results: Faster hiring, stronger talent pipelines, and measurable improvements across recruiting performance.
Since onboarding in 2024, Advanced RPO has been asked to take on a significant number of hiring support initiatives across functions and business units. A key metric our client measures success on is, time-to-find, our team has achieved a 12 day time-to-find an improvement of 26% across most roles.
The partnership also delivered measurable results across several areas as a result of:
Increased applicant flow through proactive sourcing and sponsored job advertising, demonstrating the impact of a multi-channel recruiting strategy for passive and active candidates.
Our Candidate Care team has removed transactional work and is scheduling and communicating with thousands of candidates annually, resulting in an increased candidate experience satisfaction rate.
During one critical manufacturing hiring initiative, Advanced RPO delivered 41 offers in 29 days to help address an urgent need for skilled production operators.
On-Time Delivery of hires has improved to 80% as the team focused on strengthening recruiting efficiency in 2025, with continued improvement in 2026.
A Partnership Built on Trust
The impact of the partnership extends beyond recruiting metrics.
Hiring Managers have developed strong working relationships with our recruiters and consistently recognize the team for professionalism, responsiveness, accountability, candidate quality, and proactive communication.
One hiring manager described the candidates delivered by an Advanced RPO recruiter as the “best first-round candidates he has seen.” Another described the difference in onboarding support as “night and day” compared with previous recruiting experiences.
These relationships have helped us become more than a recruiting resource. The team is trusted to understand the needs of individual hiring managers, identify and address recruiting challenges, and help create momentum when roles are difficult or time-sensitive.
THE IMPACT: Evolving from recruiting support into a trusted, enterprise-wide talent acquisition partnership.
What started as recruiting support for individual roles and projects has grown into a broader talent acquisition partnership.
Advanced RPO has adapted alongside the organization as hiring needs have changed, providing recruiting capacity when volume increases, specialized expertise when roles are difficult to fill, and proactive talent strategies when the business needs to build stronger pipelines for the future.
The result is a recruiting partnership that combines execution with strategic thinking, helping the organization fill critical roles, strengthen access to technical talent, improve recruiting efficiency, and navigate complex workforce demands with greater confidence.