Recruiting-as-a-Service (RaaS): The Smarter Way to Scale Talent
Hiring in 2025 isn’t what it used to be. Between talent shortages, ghosting, and rising costs, traditional recruiting models are showing their limits. According to SHRM, 51% of organizations report a low number of applicants, and 46% note rising “ghosting” rates as major hiring challenges.
Meanwhile, 77% of organizations said recruiting for full-time roles was difficult in 2024.
Against that backdrop, Recruiting-as-a-Service (RaaS) is emerging as a more flexible, cost-effective, and results-driven alternative to in-house recruiting or purely contingency models.
Discover why traditional recruiting is failing in 2025. With 51% of employers facing low applicants, 46% reporting ghosting, and 77% struggling to hire full-time, Recruiting-as-a-Service (RaaS) offers a flexible, cost-effective solution.
What Is RaaS?
Recruiting-as-a-Service is a model where a partner (like Urgent Partners) embeds into your hiring process to manage sourcing, screening, candidate communication, coordination, and follow-up but, without the overhead of full-time recruiting teams. It’s more aligned than contingency firms and more agile than hiring internal recruiters.
With RaaS, you gain:
Scalable recruiting capacity (scale up or down as needed)
Budget predictability, pay for execution, not infrastructure
Access to recruiting tools, data, and networks without owning them
Speed without sacrificing quality