Periscope Talent

Fractional Recruiters – Senior Recruitment Expertise, On Demand

What is a Fractional Recruiter?

A Fractional Recruiter is a senior recruitment specialist who provides a flexible, part-time (i.e. fractional) in-house or embedded recruitment solution – typically on a monthly retainer, day rate, or salary – giving you access to expert recruitment and talent acquisition support only when you need it, without the cost of a full-time hire. They cut costs and shorten time-to-hire by managing multiple vacancies simultaneously. Beyond handling immediate hiring needs, they also help you optimise your direct hiring strategy, ensuring smarter, more cost-effective recruitment and building a strong talent pipeline for the long term.

With their expertise, a Fractional Recruiter fills immediate vacancies and drives improvements in your direct hiring strategy by:–

• Refining job descriptions and titles to ensure they align with role objectives and attract the right candidates
• Defining and communicating your EVP to stand out in a competitive market
• Auditing and refreshing your Employer Brand across your careers page, LinkedIn, and review platforms
• Writing compelling job adverts that drive higher-quality applications
• Running low-cost branded advertising campaigns across multiple leading & specialist job boards and regions
• Implementing affordable recruitment subscription ATS solutions to improve efficiency & compliance, and future talent pipeline
• Screening CVs and conducting initial interviews to provide a quality shortlist – saving hiring managers’ valuable time
• Providing interview guidance and support for hiring managers, to ensure consistency and confidence in selection
• Streamlining the candidate journey to create a more positive experience for all applicants
• Salary benchmarking, negotiation, and offer support ensuring your offers are competitive, fair, and structured to attract and secure the right candidates.

Whether you need support one day a week, across a busy hiring sprint, or a few hours here and there to manage an active campaign – you are covered. A Fractional Recruiter can fully embed into your team, work directly with hiring managers, or stay behind the scenes – whatever suits your way of working. This support can cover any stage of the hiring process – from shaping the strategy and writing job descriptions to screening CVs, running interview processes, and managing offers.

Why Use a Fractional Recruiter?

1. Cost-Effective Hiring:
   You get all the recruitment expertise – without the high overheads. Fractional Recruiters are paid on an hourly or day rate basis to suit your budget and they can work across multiple roles, giving you better ROI than paying per role filled.
   
2. More Flexibility:
   Get expert support as and when you need it – without committing to a full-time hire or expensive fees.
   
3. Time Back for Your Team:
   Remove the bottleneck of hiring so founders, managers and small teams can focus on their main role and responsibilities.
   
4. Better Candidate Experience:
   With a consistent point of contact managing communication, candidates feel informed, respected and engaged throughout.
   
5. Strategic Input & Process Building:
   Fractional Recruiter don’t just ‘fill roles’ – they help to build scalable hiring processes, bring insight and guidance into what works for your sector, and set you up for long-term success and a stronger future talent pipeline.
   

Who Can Benefit From A Fractional Recruiter?

• Early-Stage Start-ups – especially those building a founding team or making their first hires and a lean budget.
  
• Small Businesses – without an internal recruiter but growing steadily.
  
• Charities & Mission-Led Organisations – who often operate with limited budgets and stretched teams, but need flexible hiring support without the commitment of a full-time salary.
  
• Founders & Ops Leads – who want scale up hiring support without the overheads, leaving more budget for the rest of the scale up process.

How Does It Work?

It starts with an initial call to understand your hiring challenges, current setup, and where you need the most support. There’s no pressure to commit – it’s simply a chance to talk through what’s going on and explore what kind of support could make the biggest difference.

If it is the right fit and solution for your hiring needs, we then arrange the initial onboarding call to go deeper into your priorities and goals. From there, I’ll create a tailored plan – whether that’s short-term cover, a few hours a week, or more embedded interim support over a defined period. You have the option to scale engagement up or down as your workload changes, and I’ll work closely with you to ensure the approach aligns with your team and hiring goals.

Whether you’re hiring now or planning ahead, I’d be happy to share insights on how fractional recruitment could work for your team.