Need Recruiting Help, But Not a
Full-Time Recruiter?

Talent IQ’s fractional recruiting services give your team the hiring support you need without the cost or commitment of a full-time recruiter. We step in where you need us, handle the hiring work and scale back when you don’t.

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FRACTIONAL RECRUITING SERVICES, Explained

A recruiting partner you can plug in where your team needs support.

Embedded recruiting support, weekly capacity, or help with one specific hiring project.

Some companies need a recruiter embedded in their team for a few months. Others need weekly support to keep hiring moving. Some only need help with one specific project, like reviewing applicants, building interview scorecards, or strengthening a hiring process that has become too slow or inconsistent.

Talent IQ’s fractional recruiting services are built around that reality.

We plug in where the gaps are, handle the hiring work, and step out when your team no longer needs the extra capacity.

How We Can Support
Your Team

Fractional recruiting support can look different depending on what your team needs. Some companies need help managing active roles. Others need structure, screening support, or a better hiring process. Talent IQ can support the parts of recruiting your team needs most.

Embedded Recruiting Support

A dedicated recruiter working as part of your team, managing the full recruitment lifecycle across multiple roles. Everything an internal recruiter would handle, without the long-term commitment.

Applicant Review & Screening

We review incoming applicants, screen for fit, and deliver a shortlist so your team focuses only on the strongest candidates.

Hiring Process Design

We build or improve your hiring process from intake to offer, including scorecards, interview guides, and structured evaluation frameworks.

Recruitment Framework Setup

We create the recruitment infrastructure your team needs, including job descriptions, candidate evaluation criteria, and hiring workflows.

Interview Scorecard Development

We design structured interview scorecards that bring consistency and objectivity to your hiring decisions.

Hiring Audit

We review your current hiring process, identify what is slowing you down or creating poor outcomes, and recommend specific fixes.

Who Fractional Recruiting Services Are Best For

  • You need recruiting help but you are not ready to bring on a full-time recruiter
  • You have multiple roles moving at once and need someone to keep the process organized
  • Your applicants are not being reviewed, screened, or moved through the process quickly enough
  • You are growing quickly and need someone to manage the search work while your team focuses on the business
  • You need help for a set period of time, a few hours per week, or one specific hiring project
  • Your HR team is stretched and hiring keeps falling to the bottom of the list

If hiring is starting to slow your team down, Talent IQ can plug in where support is needed and step out when the extra capacity is no longer required.

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Case Study: What Fractional Recruiting
Services Look Like in Practice

How Talent IQ helped a growing financial services firm manage mission-critical searches without adding a full-time recruiter.

Talent IQ was brought in to support a Toronto-based financial services firm during a critical hiring period.

The Challenge

Our client was in a critical hiring period with five roles to fill and not enough internal capacity to manage sourcing, screening, follow-ups, and candidate communication consistently across all of them. Hiring was a priority but the process lacked structure and dedicated ownership.

Team collaborating on hiring strategy in a modern SaaS office

Our Approach

Talent IQ stepped in as a fractional recruiting partner to bring structure, consistency, and momentum to the hiring process. With 5 roles moving at once, our work included:

▪ Role Clarity: We clarified the requirements, priorities, and must-have criteria for each role so the hiring team had a clear direction before candidates moved forward.

▪ Applicant Review & Screening: We reviewed incoming applicants, identified stronger matches, and screened candidates before presenting them to the hiring team.

▪ Targeted Sourcing: Where the applicant pool was not strong enough, we sourced additional candidates to build a better shortlist for each search.

▪ Hiring Workflow Support: We helped coordinate next steps, follow up with candidates, and keep each search moving so nothing stalled between stages.

▪ Hiring Manager Alignment: We helped organize feedback and bring more consistency to candidate evaluation across all 5 searches.

The Results

Over a 12-week engagement, the client gained the recruiting structure and extra capacity they needed to keep hiring moving across 5 mission-critical roles.

Instead of chasing applicants, follow-ups, and hiring manager feedback internally, their team had a clearer process and more consistent recruiting support.

The engagement gave them momentum during a critical hiring period without adding permanent recruiting overhead before they were ready.

For a team that needed to hire without slowing down, fractional recruiting gave them the structure and support to do exactly that.

Ready for Fractional Recruiting Support?

If your team needs experienced recruiting help without adding a full-time recruiter, Talent IQ can help. Tell us what kind of hiring support you need, and we’ll follow up to discuss whether our fractional recruiting services are the right fit.

Managing multiple searches but running out of bandwidth?

We can step in to keep candidates moving, hiring managers aligned, and searches on track without adding a permanent hire to your team.

Have a specific hiring project in mind?

We can step in for a defined scope and deliver what your team needs without a long-term commitment.

Need someone to own the recruiting work entirely?

We can embed a dedicated recruiter into your team to manage active searches and bring structure to your hiring process.

Fractional Recruiting Services FAQs

Have questions about fractional recruiting services? Here are a few things companies often ask when they need recruiting support, but are not ready to hire a full-time recruiter.

Fractional recruiting means bringing in an experienced recruiter for only the amount of support you need. It can be a few hours a week, a short-term project, or hands-on help during a busy hiring period.

Talent IQ’s fractional recruiting services can support applicant review, candidate screening, full-cycle recruiting, hiring process setup, and recruiting workflow management without hiring a full-time recruiter.

It depends on what your team needs.
Some engagements last a few weeks. Others run for several months or continue on a part-time basis. The structure is built around the level of support you need.

A full-time recruiter is a permanent hire. Fractional recruiting gives you support only when you need it.


It works well when your hiring needs change month to month, your team needs extra capacity, or you are not ready to add a full-time recruiting role.

Yes. Fractional recruiting services can support one role or several searches at the same time.


This is useful when your company has multiple hiring needs but does not have dedicated recruiting capacity in-house.

Fractional recruiting gives your team flexible recruiting support for the amount of time or scope you need. It can include applicant review, screening, hiring process support, full-cycle recruiting, or help across multiple roles.

Contingency recruiting services are usually focused on filling a specific role, with the fee tied to a successful placement.

If you need help filling one important role, contingency recruiting may be the better fit. If you need flexible recruiting capacity or process support, fractional recruiting may make more sense.

Fractional recruiting services are a good fit for growing companies, lean HR teams, founder-led businesses, professional services firms, real estate companies, property management firms, wealth management firms, and companies with changing hiring needs.

Fractional recruiting services are usually structured as a flat monthly retainer or a fixed project fee, depending on the scope and level of support required. The cost is typically a fraction of what a full-time recruiter would cost in salary and benefits, which is part of what makes the model attractive for growing teams.

At Talent IQ, pricing is scoped based on your hiring needs, the number of active roles, and the level of involvement required. Get in touch to discuss what support looks like for your team and we’ll provide a clear outline of what’s involved.

Fractional recruiting services are a good fit for companies that need recruiting help, but not enough to need a full-time recruiter.

This often includes growing teams, lean HR departments, founder-led companies, and businesses with changing hiring needs. It also works well when hiring comes in waves, multiple roles open at once, or the team needs temporary recruiting capacity.