Generations — Because we care

Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Hire the team you do not have time to hire yourself.

RPO — Recruitment Process Outsourcing — is a long-term partnership, not a transaction. Our recruiters embed with yours and run the full hiring motion: sourcing, screening, selection, onboarding. In your name, in your tools, to your standard. Fixed monthly fee or hybrid, one dedicated team, no per-hire commissions. Five shapes of it, one craft.

RPO · from a single project to a fully embedded team

Seventeen years of Generations, two decades of leadership track record. One European base.

We have delivered RPO across EMEA for intergovernmental institutions, industrial-tech multinationals and consumer brands — from parallel searches run under institutional governance, to embedded recruiters sitting inside specialist teams in two or three countries at once. Different sectors, same craft.

  • Brussels · pan-European delivery
  • Five RPO models under one roof
David Caggiari-Pallett, General Manager, Generations Recruitment

Based in Brussels. Built for the way EMEA hires.

EMEA does not hire the way a single country does. The law, the languages, the labour markets all shift at the border — and the recruiter who does not shift with them delivers thin shortlists.

Our team runs in French, English, Dutch, Italian, German and the languages our mandates need. In the last twelve months we have delivered across the Western Balkans, across Iberia, and across the DACH and Benelux regions. Brussels is where the work is coordinated. EMEA is where it is delivered.

Four Generations consultants together in the Brussels office

How we think

The five decisions that shape every RPO we run.

  • Europe-centric by design — the law, the compliance, the labour markets are ours, not an imported playbook.

  • People first — we refuse a bad fit, even a fast one, and we tell you why.

  • Governance that holds up — transparent process, auditable decisions, selection committees when the mandate calls for one.

  • GDPR is not a compliance tick — it is how we store, share and sunset candidate data, by default.

  • Innovation through AI — we build our own tech, because a borrowed stack leaks, and because recruitment IP is worth owning.

The five RPO models we deliver

Five shapes, one craft.

The industry recognises five RPO models. We run all of them, and we choose with you by what the business needs — not by what fits our capacity this quarter.

01

Full RPO

End-to-end ownership. Multi-year, enterprise scope.

02

Project RPO

A discrete hiring burst. Six to eight roles, three to four months.

03

On-demand

Triggered capacity. Surge, hard-to-fill, confidential.

04

Embedded · On-site

A recruiter inside your team, in your ATS, under your brand.

05

Hybrid

Fixed fee for the process. Per-hire milestones for the outcome.

Since 2009
Recruitment expertise in Belgium
Sales & Marketing, from day one
95%
Satisfaction rate
Clients and candidates
84%
Of our clients hire with us again
Client retention
3.6 years
Average candidate tenure
How long our placements stay in the job

Recruitment Agency of the Year — Talent Business Awards 2025

The Market Expansion Engine

When RPO reaches past hiring — into agents, distributors, market entry across EMEA — eight of our agents take over.

  • We map. Territory, retail doors, competition.
  • We score. Every agent on twelve fit dimensions.
  • We vet. Each company and each agent — live, clean, free to sign.
  • We build your hub. Full visibility, all the data.
  • We seduce. A bespoke kit per agent, in their language.
  • You land. You expand.

Watch the video

GR showed again a very client-focused approach — they listened and took the time to understand what we needed. Their flexibility and commitment helped us find the right talent.

Christophe Courboin

Country Manager Belux, Brown-Forman

They run their hiring with us

  • Medi-Market
  • Spadel
  • Dogchef
  • Groupe SEB
  • Fairtrade
  • Ewon
  • Dr. Oetker
  • Cooper
  • Q8
  • Wooclap
The Generations team at their desks in the Brussels office

Tell us what your hiring problem is.

A thirty-minute call with the consultant who would run your RPO — not a salesperson, not a deck, not a pitch. We will tell you which of the five models fits, and whether it fits at all.

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