Local Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Japan-specific recruitment outsourcing support, tailored to your hiring goals and business needs.
What is RPO?
RPO is an outsourced recruitment solution that leverages external resources to manage and enhance your hiring process.
Through Robert Walters Japan, experienced recruitment specialists handle agreed recruitment operations, strengthening your team’s hiring capability. The number of hires, scope of support, and structure (onsite, remote, hybrid) can be tailored to meet your specific hiring needs.
In Japan, we deliver this solution through Local RPO, which is tailored to local hiring needs.
What is unique about Local RPO?
Local RPO is our Japan-specific recruitment outsourcing solution that provides hands-on recruitment support at a scale that fits your hiring needs in Japan. Rather than relying solely on internal resources or engaging agencies on a role-by-role basis, our dedicated Local RPO solution provides recruitment professionals with the expertise, networks, and capacity to deliver the volume and quality of hires you need from initial sourcing through to final offer.
Local RPO bridges a gap that many businesses face: the need for high-quality, consistent recruitment delivery without the cost and commitment of permanently expanding your team. Depending on the model you choose, you can expand your recruitment capacity, broaden access to candidate pools by leveraging our established networks, or achieve both.
We offer a variety of models, tailored with you to determine which best fits your needs.
Our delivery models
We offer multiple delivery models designed to suit different hiring needs, job types, and ways of working:
- Onsite model: Support delivered onsite for close collaboration with internal stakeholders
- Remote model: Dedicated support delivered remotely with regular touchpoints
- Hybrid model: A flexible combination of onsite and remote delivery
Supporting small-scale hiring in Japan
While RPO is often associated with large-scale hiring, we also support smaller-scale hiring needs. You can start with a focused scope, support specific positions, or scale up and down tailored to your requirements.Initial consultation and enquiry
The scope of support varies depending on your hiring objectives and internal structure. During the initial consultation, we will review your recruitment challenges and desired conditions, and then provide a proposed approach, team structure, and an estimated cost.
Speak with us for a consultation, and we will be able to discover how to best support your needs.
Meet our expert RPO team in Japan
Joshua Bryan
Senior Director, Tokyo
Joshua leads Robert Walters Japan's Local RPO practice, drawing on over 20 years in the Japan market and oversight of three recruitment divisions to provide senior strategic direction for every engagement.
Mitsuki Sakaguchi
Senior Manager, Tokyo
Mitsuki co-leads Robert Walters Japan's Local RPO services, designing agile, client-focused solutions. Her extensive experience in contract recruitment operations ensures flexible models that scale with client demand.
Taishi Nakamura
Senior Manager, Tokyo
Taishi specializes in recruitment solutions for financial institutions and consulting firms, combining sector knowledge with hands-on operational expertise. His track record in contract recruitment delivery supports models that adapt to shifting client needs.
Michael Cavalier
Manager, Tokyo
Michael leads Robert Walters Japan's Local RPO services for financial institutions and consulting firms, partnering with clients to place high-calibre, agency-trained Robert Walters consultants on-site to meet their hiring objectives.
Ryan Distaso
Associate Consultant, Tokyo
Ryan co-leads Robert Walters Japan's Local RPO services, working proactively with clients to build tailored recruitment solutions across a range of industries and functions with a results-oriented approach.
FAQs
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What is the difference between RPO and contingent workforce solutions (CWS)?
Simply put, RPO relates to permanent hiring where your provider will manage the full end to end recruitment cycle or just specific parts of the cycle. Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is a service offering to support the delivery and management of non-permanent or contract resources. RPO is often a solution for long-term hiring strategies whilst CWS offers your organisation flexibility for shorter term or project-based hiring. Together, they offer comprehensive and highly flexible solutions to all your talent needs. -
What is the difference between RPO recruiters and a traditional staffing agency?
A recruitment outsourcing provider acts as an embedded extension of an organisation’s talent acquisition team, which can be tailored to your hiring needs - whether it is support for the end-to-end hiring cycle or specific areas.
Outsourcing providers find talent through the best channels for the client, including direct sourcing, referrals, internal mobility or engaging staffing agencies
RPOs provide insight into both hiring and market activity through data analysis and technology platforms.
These providers support the full recruitment process, identifying and implementing ways to improve efficiency and enhance the experience for both clients and candidates.
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How do you manage the RPO process and ensure candidate quality?
From workforce planning, right through to onboarding talent, our RPO solutions manage the end-to-end hiring process. Through our focus on building sustainable partnerships with our clients, we create all our solutions alongside our clients, ensuring they are tailored to meet their specific needs. Ultimately, our processes are designed to deliver the right quality of candidates with efficiency to meet our clients' expectations. -
Do you offer RPO solutions on a global scale?
Yes, as well as Japan, Robert Walters Outsourcing delivers talent into more than 60 countries for our clients. We have client account teams in 23 countries and a network of 6 global service centres that support our on-site teams, this allows us to be truly global and provide agile delivery of our services wherever your organisation may need to fill vacancies. -
What are the benefits of Recruitment Process Outsourcing?
The benefits of Recruitment Process Outsourcing include:
Scalability: Recruitment Process Outsourcing allows your business to be more flexible and therefore can scale up and down based on business needs, this makes it an ideal solution for companies with fluctuating hiring demand.
Technology integration: RPO solutions are underpinned by technology. Access to recruitment technologies are integral to sourcing the right talent for your organisation. Tech can be fully implemented into your recruitment processes or can be integrated seamlessly into your tech stack. An RPO partner will work with you to find what works best for your organisation.
Cost efficiency: Through optimised hiring processes and economies of scale RPO solutions can reduce recruitment costs for your organisation.
Reduced time-to-fill: With access to talent pools RPO providers have expertise and access to wider talent networks therefore reducing time to hire and strong quality hires.
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What kind of companies benefit from RPO?
Companies of all sizes and from all industries can benefit from Recruitment Process Outsourcing. Large organisations can leverage recruitment outsourcing providers to handle high-volume hiring, streamlining talent acquisition. Small and medium-sized businesses can benefit from RPO by gaining access to top talent without the need to build an in-house recruitment team, allowing them to scale more efficiently.
By partnering with a recruitment outsourcing provider organisations can improve their time to hire, increase candidate quality whilst improving overall hiring experience for the candidate, therefore making this an ideal solution for any organisation looking to optimise their recruitment process.
Our offices span Asia and extend globally. Contact us toady to learn how we can assist with your outsourcing requirements.
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