Traditional Contingency Agency
- You pay a percentage of the candidate’s salary for each successful placement.
- Hiring costs rise as salary and hiring volume rise.
- The agency relationship is typically transaction-based.
Fractional Recruiter
Fractional Recruiter: Add Recruiting Power Without Expanding Your Payroll
Our fractional recruiter is an experienced talent acquisition specialist who works with your company on a flexible, part-time, hourly, or project/retainer basis rather than as a full-time employee.
Your Fractional Recruiter — also known as a Talent Acquisition Specialist — sources, screens and manages candidate pipelines, coordinates interviews and supports offers across your priority roles.
- Transparent Pricing Structure.
- No Hidden Cost.
- No percentage-based placement fees.
What is a Fractional Recruiter?
Our fractional recruiter is an experienced talent acquisition specialist who works with your company on a flexible, part-time, hourly, or project/retainer basis rather than as a full-time employee.
Fractional Recruiter and Talent Acquisition Specialist are two names for the same service at Bestwin. Your specialist works inside your team, with capacity agreed around your priority roles, hiring workload and engagement scope.
Your fractional recruiter joins your hiring process for the hours you need. They work alongside your hiring managers to define each role, source and screen candidates, and keep your pipeline moving. You keep full control of interviews and offers, and you can add or reduce support as your hiring changes.
The model is especially useful when hiring demand is temporary, uneven, specialized, urgent, or too large for the current HR/TA team.
When a Fractional Recruiter makes sense
- Your HR team has more open roles than it can actively source.
- You need a Fractional Recruiter for a few roles but not a permanent full-time hire.
- You are launching a hiring campaign or entering a new market.
- You have hard-to-fill technical, AI, GTM, healthcare, operations or leadership roles.
- Your internal recruiters need sourcing or screening capacity while they focus on hiring-manager partnership.
- You are tired of paying a percentage of salary for every successful placement.
- You need recruiting support for a defined project, hiring surge or seasonal demand.
- You want a Fractional Recruiter who can work inside your existing ATS and process rather than operating as a disconnected vendor.
What your Fractional Recruiter can handle
- 01Role intake and calibration
- 02Search strategy and talent mapping
- 03LinkedIn Recruiter and multi-channel sourcing
- 04Passive candidate outreach
- 05Candidate screening and qualification
- 06Candidate summaries and shortlist delivery
- 07ATS updates and pipeline management
- 08Interview scheduling and coordination
- 09Hiring-manager feedback follow-up
- 10Candidate communication and experience
- 11Offer support and closing coordination
- 12Weekly pipeline reporting and recruiting analytics
The commercial difference
Full-Time Internal Recruiter
- You gain ownership, but carry fixed employment cost and capacity even when hiring slows.
- Recruiting capacity is tied to one employee’s available bandwidth.
Bestwin Fractional Recruiter
- Buy recruiting capacity based on the workload and period you need.
- No percentage-based placement fee in the recommended model.
- Fractional Recruiters can work inside your systems and hiring workflow.
- Capacity can be adjusted as hiring demand changes.
Why Bestwin Fractional Recruiter ?
900 million profile database
Our Fractional Recruiters work within your ATS and can utilise our access of 900 million profiles database free of cost, and also get access to our own built Advanced ATS for free — with hiring support shaped around each client’s goals.
Own built Advanced ATS
Get access to our own built Advanced ATS, the same system your Fractional Recruiter works in.
Industry Specialized Fractional Recruiters
Fractional Recruiters who know the roles, titles and hiring realities in your sector — technology, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics and more.
Flexible capacity
Align your Fractional Recruiter’s capacity with your hiring workload.
Direct sourcing
Use targeted search, passive candidate outreach and multi-channel sourcing rather than relying only on inbound applicants.
Transparent workflow
Work within the agreed ATS, communication tools, interview process and reporting cadence.
Frequently asked questions
Our fractional recruiter is an experienced talent acquisition specialist who works with your company on a flexible, part-time, hourly, or project/retainer basis rather than as a full-time employee.
No. At Bestwin, these are two names for the same service: an experienced talent acquisition specialist working inside your hiring process with flexible capacity agreed around your workload.
Bestwin serves Information Technology & Software; Data Science, AI & ML; Finance & Accounting; Healthcare & Life Sciences; Engineering & Manufacturing; Logistics, Supply Chain & Light Industrial; FinTech; Construction; Legal; Real Estate.
Traditional agencies typically charge a fee for each successful placement. Fractional recruiting is structured around Fractional Recruiter capacity and agreed scope, allowing a company to use experienced recruiting support across multiple roles without paying a percentage of each candidate’s salary.
Your Fractional Recruiter, also called a Talent Acquisition Specialist, works inside your team on priority roles and agreed hiring work. We align part-time to full-time capacity with your workload and engagement scope. RPO is a separate service for managing all or part of your recruitment function.
Yes. The engagement can be structured around your ATS, communication tools, scorecards, calendars and existing hiring workflow.
Yes. Bestwin supports technical recruiting across software engineering, AI/ML, DevOps, cloud, QA, data and technical leadership, alongside non-technical functions.
Yes. A fractional engagement can be appropriate when you have a small number of priority roles or need targeted recruiting capacity for a defined period.
Yes. The core benefit of an on-demand model is the ability to align recruiting capacity with the hiring plan, subject to the commercial terms of the engagement.
The recommended Bestwin fractional model is designed around predictable recruiting capacity rather than percentage-based placement fees.
Start timing depends on role complexity, Fractional Recruiter availability, access to systems and the scope agreed during discovery.
Select Fractional Recruiter/TAs in the Pricing Calculator. Choose recruiter count, hours and duration to estimate the cost. There are no percentage-based placement fees.
Your Fractional Recruiter can handle role intake, sourcing, resume screening, shortlisting, assessment coordination, first-round interviews, candidate recommendations and offer support within your hiring process.
Your Fractional Recruiter can work inside your ATS. Bestwin also provides access to its paid 900 million profile database across 23 sources and its own Advanced AI Powered ATS for free.
Need Fractional Recruiter support?
Tell us what you are hiring, how many roles you have, where you are hiring, and when you need support. We’ll recommend the right recruiting model for your business.