Hire a Fractional Recruiter
Pre-screened Recruiters who source, screen, and close engineers and leaders for your open reqs, matched in about 3 days and working inside your ATS from the first week.
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When to hire a Fractional Recruiter
Bring in a fractional Recruiter when open reqs are slowing your roadmap and nobody on the team owns hiring.
Engineering managers are doing the sourcing
Your tech leads spend hours each week on LinkedIn outreach and phone screens instead of shipping code.
Reqs have sat open for months
Key backend, platform, or product roles stay unfilled and the delay is pushing back releases.
Agency fees are eating your budget
Paying a percentage of salary on every placement no longer makes sense with five or more hires planned this year.
You just raised and need to double the team
A new round comes with a hiring plan, but you have no interview loop, scorecards, or ATS workflow to support it.
Candidates drop out late
Offers get declined or finalists go quiet because nobody is managing candidate communication and closing.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional Recruiter
A fractional Recruiter runs your searches end to end, from intake call to signed offer, so your engineering managers stop sourcing on LinkedIn at night.
Run a full hiring pipeline on a part-time budget
Get a senior Recruiter writing job specs, sourcing, and running screens without adding a full-time salary, benefits, or per-hire agency fees to your burn.
Start sourcing candidates this week
We match you with a Recruiter in about 3 days, so outreach on your backend, data, or leadership reqs begins while the role is still urgent.
Lean on proven sourcing for hard technical roles
Every Recruiter is pre-screened on placements they have actually closed, including niche engineering, product, and executive searches like yours.
How to hire a Fractional Recruiter
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional Recruiter is easy with Go Fractional.
Intro Call
Answer a few quick questions, then book a free 30-minute intro call with our team to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Our AI finds Fractional Recruiter candidates whose past clients and projects match your brief, which you won’t find on LinkedIn. A dedicated executive recruiter verifies each one’s experience, fit, and genuine interest, and you meet the ones who fit in about 3 days.
Start Work
Book time with candidates right from your shortlist, choose your operator, and sign a simple month-to-month agreement. We move as fast as you do.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional Recruiter
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional Recruiter on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim Recruiter
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Fractional Recruiter rates average $107/hr across our live benchmarks. Pricing scales with hours and scope.
Recruiter Hourly RatesFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get Recruiter leadership, and where each one wins.
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| Factor | Fractional Recruiter | Full-time Recruiter | Recruiting Agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | ~3 days to match | 2-4 months to hire | 1-3 weeks to kick off |
| Cost structure | Monthly retainer | Salary + benefits + equity | 15-30% of each hire's salary |
| Pipeline ownership | Works in your ATS, you keep every candidate | Fully in-house | Agency keeps its database |
| Hiring manager coaching | Built into the engagement | Yes, over time | Rarely included |
| Flexibility | Scale up or down with hiring plans | Fixed headcount | Per-search contracts |
| Best for | Startups hiring in bursts that need process plus sourcing | Steady, high-volume hiring year round | One-off searches you want fully outsourced |
We’ve helped hundreds of organizations Go Fractional
Twelve years: the average experience across a network of handpicked executives ready to make an impact on day one.
“Partnering with Go Fractional allowed Enertiv to bring on our fractional Head of Talent, streamlining the recruitment process - saving us time and cost. They implemented a state-of-the-art ATS, developed customized interview kits and scorecards, and reduced the time-to-fill our roles. This swift process successfully placed top-tier talent, including a Solutions Engineer, a Growth Marketer, and an Onboarding Manager. If you’re a business looking to scale rapidly with elite talent - I strongly recommend you check out Go Fractional.”
“It was literally three days after he started with us fractionally, our CEO was calling me and asking if we could get a full-time offer out.”
“It's a can't-lose scenario. You either get the learnings from the subject matter expert, or you get the full-time capability. It provided a ton of flexibility, much faster speed to market, and conservation of time and resources.”
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