Manpower, Announces, Global, Membership, HROA

Manpower Business Solutions Announces Global Membership in HROA

MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (January 6, 2010) – Manpower Business Solutions (MBS) today announced its global membership in the Human Resources Outsourcing Association (HROA), a non-profit association dedicated to promoting professionalism in, and best practices of, human resources outsourcing (HRO). With its track record as a leading global RPO provider, MBS is known for improving client performance through innovative talent solutions that raise productivity, mitigate risk and reduce costs. Through its global membership in the HROA, MBS will provide guidance, assistance and education to help promote the advancement of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) worldwide.

MBS is a dedicated business unit within the Manpower group of companies and specializes in the delivery of customized employment strategies and outcome-based solutions. Through its world-leading global RPO offering, MBS manages any part or all of a client’s permanent recruiting and hiring processes, from job profiling to on-boarding, globally or in a single location. The company’s managed service programs and RPO offerings provide specialty expertise in contingent workforce management and broader administrative functions, respectively.

“The HROA presents an extraordinary opportunity to network and associate with global industry professionals in an open and informative forum,” said Kate Donovan, managing director of Manpower Business Solutions. “Our enduring role as a world leader in employment services gives us a unique perspective when it comes to delivering outsourcing solutions with global capability and local knowledge. We are excited to collaborate and form strong alliances with fellow members and share trends and best practices with our clients around the world.”

Richard Crespin, global executive director of the HROA, added, “As one of the largest employment services providers in the world, Manpower Business Solutions joins its peers in the HROA leading the way forward in how companies deliver HR services. The HROA brings together the very best minds in this field to set standards and tackle the consequential issues facing how companies attract, retain, develop, and deploy their most precious assets: their people. Their leadership as a Global Member of the HROA will bring new insights to our association and enable Manpower Business Solutions to tap into the full power of our worldwide community of HR leaders.”

About HROA
Founded in 2003, the HRO Association (HROA) is a global association with chapters in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The Association is open to anyone in the HR Outsourcing industry anywhere in the world, including HR executives, buyers, providers, advisors, consultants, attorneys, and academics. Members of the Association include heads of HR, heads of companies or business units providing HR services, and leading industry sourcing advisors and attorneys.

About Manpower Business Solutions
Manpower Business Solutions is an entity within the Manpower group of companies specializing in Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Managed Service Programs and Business Process Outsourcing.  Providing this complete suite of workforce management services helps clients improve performance, raise productivity, increase efficiency, mitigate risk and reduce costs. In the U.S., Manpower Business Solutions joins Manpower, Manpower Professional, Manpower Public Sector, Right Management and Jefferson Wells in providing practical solutions that allow companies to succeed in the changing world of work. More information on Manpower Business Solutions is available at us.manpower.com/mbs.

About Manpower
Manpower Inc. is a world leader in the employment services industry; creating and delivering services that enable its clients to win in the changing world of work. In the United States, Manpower is more than its core of industrial, contact center and administrative recruiting, assessment and selection. Under the Manpower Professional brand, the company provides innovative project solutions and places temporary and permanent talent in areas such as information technology, scientific, engineering and finance verticals. Manpower leverages its expertise in staffing and consulting for the U.S. federal government through Manpower Public Sector, and provides clients with managed service programs, business and recruitment process outsourcing offerings, and other integrated solutions through Manpower Business Solutions. More information on Manpower is available at us.manpower.com.