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User_gary Posted 18 years ago
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leveraging the strategic benefits that this highly specialized service offers

It’s no secret that the U.K. is one of Europe’s most mature markets
when it comes to recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). However, companies
across the region—from France to Norway to Italy to Germany—are now
becoming part of this rapidly growing trend by leveraging the strategic
benefits that this highly specialized service offers.

Could you explain the emboldened parts to me?
  

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A lever is a force multiplier. The expression moved from physics and the farm to the world of finance, describing the use of a small amount of money to control a much larger sum. Now it's sort of a fad word used in any field to describe the use of a tool to accomplish more than you could without it.

  • A lever is a force multiplier.
  • The expression moved from physics and the farm to the world of finance, describing the use of a small amount of money to control a much larger sum.
  • Now it's sort of a fad word used in any field to describe the use of a tool to accomplish more than you could without it.
  • These days you outsource everything that it would cost you more to do yourself.
  • I think "leveraging" is misapplied here, though it's not really incorrect.
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A lever is a force multiplier. The expression moved from physics and the farm to the world of finance, describing the use of a small amount of money to control a much larger sum.

Now it's sort of a fad word used in any field to describe the use of a tool to accomplish more than you could without it. These days you outsource everything that it would cost you more to do yourself. I thi

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