WINNER
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BEST RECRUITMENT PROCESS OUTSOURCING (RPO) BUSINESS
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GLOBAL RECRUITER AWARDS 2025
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WINNER 〰️ BEST RECRUITMENT PROCESS OUTSOURCING (RPO) BUSINESS 〰️ GLOBAL RECRUITER AWARDS 2025 〰️
VERMELO | THE UK'S AWARD-WINNING RPO & TALENT SOLUTIONS PROVIDER
ONE TALENT ENGINE EVERY HIRING CHALLENGE SOLVED
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) | MSP Contractor Management | Embedded Recruitment (RaaS) | Talent Advisory
As a talent solutions specialist, we help businesses hire smarter, not harder.
We combine RPO, managed service provider (MSP) contractor management, embedded recruitment (RaaS) and talent advisory into one flexible model, built for businesses that need to hire faster without the cost creeping up.
Scale hiring up or down, get contractor risk under control, and build long-term capability - with IR35 and FCA compliance designed in, not bolted on.
Your talent challenges. Solved
Talent solutions that are proven for speed, cost reduction, customer experience, quality and retention
Figures based on a typical client Q3, 2025
Your end-to-end talent solutions specialist partner
Whether you’re tackling rising recruitment costs, slow time-to-hire or compliance headaches, our talent solution specialists deliver a full suite of scalable, adaptable, data-led recruitment solutions that flex to your business.
Embedded Recruitment | Recruiter-as-a-Service (RaaS)
Embedded recruitment places expert recruiters inside your team
(your brand, your voice, your systems). Switch capacity on when
hiring spikes and off when it doesn't. No agency fees stacking up, no strangers representing your business.
Managed Service Provider (MSP) | Contractor & Contingent Workforce Management
A managed service provider runs your entire contractor workforce through one model: suppliers, rates, onboarding, IR35 status. One transparent view of contingent spend, instead of risk spread across a dozen suppliers nobody's watching.
Recruitment Process
Outsourcing (RPO)
Recruitment process outsourcing means we run your hiring
end-to-end (sourcing, screening, assessment, offers, 0nboarding) as your team, at volume, at pace.
Judged the UK's best at it in 2025.
Total Talent Solutions | Permanent & Contingent Hiring
Total talent management brings permanent and contractor hiring under one programme. One strategy, one data set, no blind spots between the two.
Talent Advisory & Consulting
Project-based expertise without handing over a function: workforce planning, pre-employment and FCA screening, employer branding, assessment design, leadership development.
Specialist Recruitment Agency | Insurance, Legal & Technology
Specialising in permanent, contingent and executive
search recruitment across insurance, legal and
technology sectors in the UK, US and Europe.
RPO, MSP, RaaS or something else?
The talent solutions industry loves an acronym. Here's what each model actually is and when it's the right call (and when it’s not).
| Embedded Talent (RaaS) | RPO | MSP | Total Talent | Talent Advisory | |
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| What it is | Recruiters embedded in your team, under your brand, in your systems. Switched on and off as demand changes. | Your recruitment process, run end-to-end by us: sourcing, screening, assessment, offers, onboarding. | One managed model for your contractor and contingent workforce: suppliers, rates, onboarding, compliance. | Permanent and contingent hiring unified under a single programme with full visibility of spend and supply. | Project-based expertise: workforce planning, screening, employer brand, assessment design, leadership development. |
| Best when | Hiring is spiking or lumpy and your in-house team can't flex fast enough. | You're hiring at volume, sustainably, and want a high-performing engine rather than a bigger agency bill. | Contractors have crept in supplier by supplier and nobody owns the risk, the rates or the full picture. | You're running perm and contingent as two separate worlds and paying for it in blind spots. | You have a specific problem to solve, not a whole function to hand over. |
| You keep | Your brand, your process, your candidate relationships | Strategic control; we run the engine | Your contractor talent; we run the model | One view of everything | Everything - we advise, you decide |
| We handle | The recruiting capacity | The recruiting, start to finish | Suppliers, compliance, rates, IR35 | Both sides, one programme | The project |
| Compliance | Runs through your framework, strengthened by ours | Built into the process, including FCA screening where regulated | The core of the model: IR35 status, right to work, supplier standards | Consistent across perm and contingent | Often the whole point - screening and IR35 process design |
Still not sure?
That's absolutely normal. One size rarely fits all - most businesses need a blend rather than a single model, and the honest answer sometimes includes "you don't need us for that part".
Try our Solution Finder or Book a Discovery Calland we'll tell you straight.
And if what you actually need is a recruitment agency - specialist permanent, contract or executive search across insurance, legal and technology - that's our sister brand, Gerrard White Consulting.
Straight answers to the questions everyone asks
We’ve picked some of the most common questions, here, but if you are still unsure and would prefer to chat it through then our friendly team would be happy to help you.
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RPO means handing your recruitment - some of it or all of it - to a specialist provider who runs it as an extension of your business. At Vermelo that covers sourcing, screening, assessment, offer management and onboarding, delivered under your brand. You keep strategic control; we run the engine. It's built for businesses hiring at volume who want quality and speed without an ever-growing agency bill.
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RPO manages your permanent hiring; MSP (managed service provider) manages your contractor and contingent workforce - the suppliers, the rates, the onboarding and the IR35 compliance. Plenty of businesses need both, which is where a total talent programme comes in: one partner, one data set, both sides of your hiring covered.
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Embedded recruitment - sometimes called Recruiter-as-a-Service - places experienced recruiters directly inside your team. They use your systems, carry your brand and represent you to candidates, but you switch the capacity on and off as hiring demand changes. It's the answer to hiring spikes that don't justify permanent headcount but do outgrow your current team.
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There's no single number, and anyone who gives you one without asking questions is guessing. What we can say: RPO replaces unpredictable per-placement agency fees with a model you can budget - typically a management fee, a cost-per-hire arrangement or a blend, shaped around your volumes. For most businesses hiring at scale, that means a meaningfully lower cost-per-hire and a number the CFO can actually forecast. Book a discovery call and we'll model it against what you're spending now.
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Yes - it's designed into the model rather than added afterwards. Our MSP solution manages IR35 status determinations, right-to-work checks and supplier standards across your contractor workforce, and our screening services cover FCA pre-employment and annual maintenance checks for regulated businesses. We're not lawyers and don't replace your own legal advice, but compliance is the reason many regulated firms come to us in the first place.
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Faster than you'd think. Embedded recruiters can usually be turned round in a matter of days; a full RPO or MSP programme takes longer to stand up properly, because doing it properly matters. Tell us what's urgent and we'll tell you honestly what's achievable - that conversation costs nothing.
Can your team actually deliver this year's hiring plan?
Most TA teams are asked to do next year's hiring with last year's headcount. Our 30-second Recruitment Capacity Check tells you honestly whether the maths works and what to do if it doesn't.
Insurance, Insurtech, Fintech & Financial Services Recruitment Specialists
Vermelo is the RPO and talent partner for regulated businesses across the UK - insurers, insurtechs, fintechs and financial services firms from scale-up to enterprise. If your hiring comes with FCA screening obligations and IR35 exposure, you're in our home territory.
Insurance & Insurtech Specialists
Underwriters, claims experts, brokers, pricing,
data and digital transformation talent driving innovation in insurance
Fintech & Financial Services Pros
Analysts, compliance officers, payments experts and finance leaders shaping the future of financial services
Executive & Leadership Recruitment
C-suite, ExCo, directors and senior managers leading strategy, transformation, and growth
Technology & Digital Talent
Developers, engineers, business analysts, data scientists and IT leaders enabling digital innovation.
Legal & Regulatory Experts
Solicitors, fee earners, compliance specialists and paralegals, supporting complex regulatory environments.
Operational & Customer Teams
Contact centre leaders, operational and customer-centric professionals, driving efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Hiring shouldn’t slow your growth
Tell us what’s holding your hiring back: cost, capacity, compliance, candidate quality or something else, and our talent specialists will build a flexible solution that fixes it.
Book a call below, or complete the form and one of our talent specialists will be in touch.
Why businesses choose Vermelo as their RPO and MSP partner
We help organisations across the UK hire faster, smarter and more sustainably through flexible, embedded talent solutions that deliver measurable results.
Faster time to hire
Boost capacity with embedded and on-demand recruiters when you need them most
Cost Control & Efficiency
Reduce reliance on recruitment agencies and unlock predictable pricing models
Compliance Confidence
IR35, FCA and employment law compliance handled by our expert team
Stronger Employer Brand
Candidate-first experiences that boost your employer brand and attract and retain the best talent
Smarter Hiring Decisions
Data-driven analytics that optimise every stage of your hiring process
Whether you need long-term recruitment process outsourcing, on-demand embedded recruiters or full MSP visibility of your contractor spend, Vermelo builds the hiring solution around your business - not the other way round.
Trusted talent solutions specialist for leading brands across insurance, insurtech, financial services, fintech and more:
What our clients say
“I just wanted to follow up and say a big thank you for your team’s help and work on the project! There’s no way we could have achieved what we needed in the claims space if it wasn’t for team Vermelo, so a big thank you to you all!”
Chief People Officer, London
“The level of support was fantastic; the team implemented our ATS installation and were excellent throughout.”
HR Manager, London
“The calibre of candidates was excellent, and I was able to focus on other areas of the business whilst feeling confident that Vermelo RPO were taking care of the recruitment process from end to end.”
MD, Reading
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