Fractional Recruiter

When you don’t need a full-time recruiter but you don’t want to pay large agency fees every few months, you need a Fractional Recruiter. Think of it as Recruiting-as-a-Subscription: predictable, proactive, and built around your business. Small and midsize businesses get an experienced on-demand recruiter who's affordable, flexible and is easy to work with while delivering real hiring results.

Your Internal Recruiter, on an
Affordable Subscription

A consistent recruiting partner and team member who knows your brand, roles, and hiring managers' needs

Customized Retention Toolkit optimized for your business and team.

Proactive sourcing and direct outreach, not just “post and pray.”

Predictable monthly pricing (no per-hire surprises).

Seamless collaboration and clear communication, your recruiter is part of your team.

A U.S.-based recruiter with a minimum of 10 years experience.

When a new role opens, everyone scrambles. Job descriptions get copied from old ones, resumes pile up, and no one remembers the Indeed password.
Its frustrating and momentum dies. Candidates move on or offers get declined. This pulls focus from revenue-driving work and slows the whole team down.

Result: Lost revenue, lost time, and burned-out teams.

SMB Hiring Challenges

Agency recruiters typically charge 20 or 25% of a hire’s annual salary which is great for a one-off urgent placement, but terrible for ongoing needs and overall cost per hire.
Semi-regular agency fees become unmanageable quickly, pulling budget away from onboarding, proper training and other priorities.

A full-time recruiter is $90-120K before benefits which can be hard to justify for a smaller firm hiring only a few roles a year.
So hiring stays ad hoc and an owner, office manager or department head posts jobs, screens resumes and conducts initial screens on top of their regular responsibilities.

Hiring is Stop and Go

Agencies Cost too Much

Full-Time Recruiters don't Fit

Result: Every expensive new hire feels like reinventing the wheel.

Result: Missed talent, inconsistent standards, no long-term hiring strategy.

Onboarding and Retention Fade

When onboarding is rushed, confidence drops and performance stalls. Without a process, “training” turns into a few quick introductions. Most employee turnover in the first year can be traced back to poor onboarding and early retention planning. No SOP can leave new hires unproductive; taking longer to ramp up.

Result: Wasted recruiting spend, preventable turnover, lost productivity.

Solution: A Fractional Recruiter is ready when you are.

Solution: A fixed, affordable monthly fee covers everything.

Solution: A recruiting partner as an ongoing part of your team.

Solution: Ongoing retention support to keep your talent.

Let's get to work!

We don’t have a magic wand — but we can be your easy button. Simplify hiring, reduce costs, and source, screen, attract, and retain great candidates. A Metcalf Search Fractional Recruiter is a game changer.