Fractional Talent Acquisition and Recruiting Services
Your People + Recruiting Team. Before You Need to Build One.
IGY SIX handles the practical People Operations and recruiting work growing businesses need, from payroll support and onboarding to hiring, manager support, retention, documentation, and People systems. Instead of paying agencies 15% to 25% of every new hire’s first-year salary, you get ongoing recruiting support before a full internal HR, People Operations, and recruiting team makes sense.
Payroll. Recruiting. Onboarding. Retention. Manager support. People systems.
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Practical People Operations + recruiting support before the full internal team makes sense.
What Is Fractional Talent Acquisition?
Fractional talent acquisition is a flexible model where an experienced recruiter works with your company on a part-time, ongoing basis. Instead of hiring a full-time recruiter or handing each role to an agency, you get a dedicated fractional recruiter who learns your business, runs your searches, and improves your hiring process over time.
It sits between two traditional options:
know your business well, but a full-time recruiter typically costs $85,000 or more in base salary before benefits.
move fast on individual roles, but charge per placement and rarely learn your culture.
A fractional recruiter gives you the business knowledge of an internal hire with the flexibility of an outside partner.
Talent Acquisition vs. Recruiting
The terms are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. Recruiting fills an open role right now. Talent acquisition is the broader, ongoing work of defining roles, building pipelines, strengthening your hiring process, and planning for future hires. Our talent acquisition consulting covers both, so every hire also makes the next one easier.
Weighing a fractional recruiter against an agency or a full-time hire?
How Our Fractional Recruiting Process Works
Discovery
We learn your business, open roles, hiring history, and what great looks like on your team.
Hiring plan
We define roles, priorities, and a realistic timeline for each search.
Sourcing and outreach
We build pipelines from active applicants, passive candidates, and targeted networks.
Screening and interviews
We vet candidates, coordinate interviews, and keep hiring managers aligned.
Offer and onboarding
We support offers and hand new hires into a consistent onboarding process.
Improve the system
We document workflows and track results so your hiring gets faster with every role.
Have open roles that need a plan? Start with a discovery conversation.
Talent Acquisition Services Built for Growing Teams
People Operations
Payroll support, onboarding, employee support, policies, documentation, total rewards guidance, and the systems that keep the People side of the business running.
Talent Acquisition
Recruiting, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and hiring support to get the right people into the right seats.
Management + Retention
Support managers, create a better employee experience, and put practical retention strategies in place to keep good people.
Owner Capacity
Get the day-to-day People work off leadership’s plate so owners and operators can spend more time leading, selling, building, and growing the business.
One Fractional Recruiter, One Point of Accountability
The need is usually broader than recruiting alone. Hiring is only half the job: the top reason new hires leave in their first 90 days is a mismatch between the job they were promised and the one they started, cited by 30.3% of HR leaders in a 2025 survey. Strong onboarding changes that, improving new hire retention by 82% in Brandon Hall Group research. That is why IGY SIX helps carry the practical People work that keeps the business running while also owning the recruiting work that keeps it growing. The same founder-led partner who learns the business and shapes the priorities stays involved in the execution, reducing handoffs, keeping what candidates hear consistent with what new hires experience, and giving leadership one person accountable for moving the work forward.
Our Fractional Recruiting and Talent Acquisition Support
The engagement follows the business need. These are capabilities inside one Fractional People Operations + Talent Acquisition partnership — not a menu of disconnected HR consulting services.
Payroll & People Administration
Support payroll administration, employee records, routine People workflows, and the systems behind them.
Onboarding & Offboarding
Build a more consistent experience for people joining, moving through, and leaving the business.
Employee Support & Documentation
Help manage day-to-day employee questions, records, documentation, and practical People follow-through.
Policies, Workflows & People Systems
Put practical policies, SOPs, workflows, and People systems in place as the company grows.
Talent Acquisition & Sourcing
Define hiring needs, build the search, and identify people beyond inbound applicants and referrals.
Screening & Interview Coordination
Screen candidates, manage communication, and keep interviews moving with the hiring team.
Manager Support & Retention
Support managers, strengthen ownership and expectations, and understand patterns that may be driving repeated exits.
Benefits & Total Rewards Guidance
Support practical compensation, benefits, and total rewards decisions when they affect hiring, retention, or the People foundation.
Not sure which of these your business needs first? Tell us where the work is landing.
Fractional Recruiting vs. Outsourced Recruiting vs. Internal Recruitment Consultants
| Compare | Full-Time In-House Recruiter | Contingency Agency | Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) | Fractional Recruiter (IGY SIX) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typical cost | $85,000+ base salary, plus benefits | 15% to 25% of first-year salary per hire | Often $4,000 to $7,000 per hire on multi-year contracts, with minimums | Hourly or monthly, scaled to hiring volume |
| Knows your business | Yes | Rarely | Partially | Yes, embedded in your team |
| Incentive | Your hiring goals | Closing placements quickly | Contract volume | Quality hires that stay |
| Best fit | Steady, high hiring volume | One-off hires | Large enterprises | Growing teams hiring a few to dozens of roles a year |
| Flexibility | Low | Per role | Low, contract terms | High, scale up or down |
| Process improvement | Yes | No | Sometimes | Yes, systems you keep |
Outsourced recruiting is a fast-growing field, and one market estimate projects the global recruitment process outsourcing market will reach $16.42 billion by 2030 as more companies move away from building everything in-house. For growing businesses, fractional recruiting delivers the benefits of outsourcing without enterprise contracts.
Why Passive Candidate Sourcing Matters
Most of the people you want to hire are not applying for jobs. LinkedIn research estimates about 70% of the global workforce is passive, meaning employed and not actively searching but open to the right opportunity. If your process relies on job postings, you are competing for the smallest part of the market.
Our fractional recruiting services include direct, personalized outreach to passive candidates, so your search reaches people your competitors never see.
Want your next search to reach candidates who are not on job boards?
Signs Your Business Needs Outsourced Recruiting
- You keep hiring or rehiring the same roles. Turnover restarts the search before the last one was finished.
- Turnover makes it hard to keep enough people in the business to scale.
- Managers are sourcing and screening instead of running their teams. Hiring falls to whoever has time, and nobody has time.
- HR handles recruiting along with everything else. Payroll, onboarding, and employee issues crowd out the search.
- People issues and decisions keep finding their way back to the owner.
- Good candidates slip away. Slow processes and inconsistent follow-up lose people to faster employers.
- You depend on job boards alone. Only a minority of professionals are actively job hunting, so posting and waiting misses most of the market.
- Agency fees are adding up. Paying a percentage of salary on every hire gets expensive once you hire more than a few people a year.
- You need ongoing help, not a full department. A dedicated recruiting function doesn’t make sense yet.
Not sure what open roles are costing you?
Talk to a Fractional Recruiter
Tell me what your business is trying to hire, where People responsibilities are landing today, and what is taking too much leadership time. We’ll figure out the right level of support.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a fractional recruiter?
A fractional recruiter is an experienced recruiting professional who works with your company part time on an ongoing basis. They handle sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and offers like an internal recruiter would, but without the cost of a full-time hire or the per-placement fees of an agency.
How much does fractional recruiting cost?
Most U.S. fractional recruiters charge about $75 to $150 per hour, or roughly $3,000 to $10,000 per month depending on hiring volume. For companies hiring several roles a year, this is often less than paying an agency 15% to 25% of each new hire’s first-year salary.
How is fractional recruiting different from a recruiting agency?
Agencies are paid per placement, so their focus is filling individual roles quickly. A fractional recruiter works inside your business, learns your culture, improves your hiring process, and builds pipelines you keep. You pay for recruiting capacity rather than a percentage of each salary.
What is the difference between talent acquisition and recruiting?
Recruiting focuses on filling a specific open role now. Talent acquisition is broader and ongoing, covering hiring plans, role definition, sourcing strategy, employer reputation, and process improvement. Our talent acquisition services include both, so each hire makes future hiring faster and more consistent.
When should a company hire a fractional recruiter?
It usually makes sense when you are hiring several roles a year, managers are spending too much time on sourcing and screening, agency fees are adding up, or HR is handling recruiting on top of everything else. It fits businesses not yet ready for a full-time recruiter.
Can you help us hire managers and leaders?
Yes. We support fractional management recruitment for supervisors, managers, and leadership roles, with a focus on people leadership, not just technical skill. For a single critical leadership search, our Direct Placement service is often the better fit.
Do you only recruit, or do you also help with HR?
Both. IGY SIX combines fractional recruiting with People Operations support, including onboarding, payroll support, policies, and retention. Having one partner handle hiring and what comes after helps new hires stay longer and reduces repeat searches.
Do you work with companies outside Texas?
Yes. IGY SIX is based in New Braunfels, Texas, and supports growing businesses across Central Texas and nationwide. Sourcing, screening, and interview coordination work remotely, so we can recruit for roles in any U.S. location.
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