News: We want you! | ADM June 2012

ManpowerGroup has announced a new contract, worth at least $400 million over five years, for Recruiting Services to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The new contract renews ManpowerGroup‘s Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) collaboration with the ADF for the next five years – and has set a record as the industry’s largest RPO partnership.

The contract covers the entire recruiting process – including marketing, recruiting operations, medical and psychological assessments and the coordination of selection boards and employment offers. The Australian Defence Force first partnered with ManpowerGroup in 2003 to create the first Defence Force Recruiting (DFR) contract. This unique private-public collaborative effort was an industry first and continues to evolve into its second decade.

The DFR engagement is managed from its own headquarters and includes a candidate relationship management center and 16 national recruiting centers. Between 20,000 – 40,000 candidates are processed annually for the Australian Navy, Army and Air Force.

Under the new contract, beginning in November of this year, ManpowerGroup will continue to manage the largest and most complex RPO program in the world for the next five years. If successful in exceeding the ADF’s outcome-based requirements the contract can grow to 10 years. ManpowerGroup will manage two major subcontractors, Corporate Health Group Defence (CHG Defence) for the provision of medical services, and Hewlett-Packard (HP) for ICT services.