A leading real estate and construction company in Sri Lanka was experiencing continuous workforce requirements across multiple areas of its business. As the organization expanded its projects and operations, recruitment was no longer limited to occasional vacancies. The company needed a dedicated recruitment function capable of continuously identifying, screening, coordinating, and hiring talent across several professional and operational segments.

Instead of building a large internal recruitment department, the company appointed Formix to manage its recruitment function through a comprehensive Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) engagement. Formix effectively operated as an extension of the company’s internal team, taking responsibility for recruitment requirements across engineering, architecture, administration, accounts, and other business functions.

The Challenge

The company’s recruitment requirements were highly diverse. Engineering and architecture positions required candidates with specific professional qualifications and industry experience, while administrative and accounts positions required a different combination of technical knowledge, experience, and organizational skills.

Managing these requirements internaly would have required the company to maintain recruiters with the ability to handle multiple talent categories simultaneously. At the same time, hiring needs could change according to project requirements, creating additional pressure on management to continuously source candidates. 

The company therefore needed more than a recruitment agency working on individual vacancies. It required a recruitment partner that could operate as its outsourced recruitment department, understand the business, manage multiple hiring segments, and maintain recruitment activity continuously. 

Formix as the Company’s Recruitment Department 

Formix integrated its recruitment team into the client’s hiring process and took responsibility for managing recruitment requirements across the organization. Instead of treating every vacancy as a separate recruitment assignment, our team operated through an ongoing RPO model, alowing recruitment activity to continue as new requirements emerged. 

Our recruiters worked closely with the client’s management team to understand upcoming workforce requirements, prepare candidate profiles, source relevant talent, conduct initial screening, coordinate interviews, and maintain communication with candidates throughout the hiring process. 

The recruitment function covered multiple segments, including engineers, architects, accounts professionals, administrative staff, and other corporate and operational positions. This a lowed the client to work with one recruitment partner rather than coordinating separate recruitment providers for different categories of employees.