Glossary
RaaS (Recruitment as a Service)
Saiyō's subscription product: embedded headhunters delivered on a flat monthly fee, replacing per-hire commercials.
RaaS is a subscription product for buying embedded headhunting. A specialist provider embeds senior headhunters into a company's hiring function under a flat monthly subscription with a set number of hiring credits deployed flexibly. Embedded headhunting is the underlying model; RaaS is one commercial wrapper for it, alongside sibling services such as CVaaS and Executive Search. Unlike contingent agencies (paid per hire) or RPOs (paid via large multi-year contracts), RaaS aligns the provider's incentives to the customer's hiring plan rather than to placement fees. RaaS is best suited to scale-ups hiring 5 to 150 roles a year, where in-house alone is not enough and agency spend has become unpredictable.
Related terms
- CVaaS (CV as a Service)An on-demand sourcing service that delivers a steady flow of pre-qualified, headhunted CVs into the customer's pipeline without per-hire fees.
- RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)A long-term outsourcing contract in which a third party operates some or all of an enterprise's recruitment function.
- Embedded Talent AcquisitionA delivery model where an external recruiter joins the customer's team and tooling for the duration of the engagement, rather than working at arm's length.
- HeadhuntingProactive, targeted outreach to passive candidates who are not actively job hunting, rather than processing inbound applicants.
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