Hiring plan and role calibration
Sequence the roles, define the business outcomes, build scorecards, clarify decision makers, and pressure-test compensation against the market.
Fractional recruiting support | Nationwide
Senior recruiting leadership without another full-time headcount.
You need hiring to work, but you may not need a full-time Head of Recruiting. Fractional support gives you experienced leadership, hands-on execution, and a recruiting system that fits the company you are building now.
Discuss fractional supportWhen fractional support fits
Your company has real hiring work. It does not need another expensive layer.
- Hiring demand comes in waves, making a permanent recruiting leader difficult to justify.
- Founders or executives are spending too much time managing searches and fixing broken interview loops.
- The company needs several roles filled, but no one owns the full hiring system.
- An internal recruiting or People leader left, and the business cannot pause while searching for a replacement.
- The pipeline looks busy, but role clarity, assessment, candidate communication, or close rates are weak.
What fractional really means
Inside the hiring problem, not outside throwing résumés over the wall.
Fractional recruiting support is part-time, senior-level recruiting leadership tailored to the work your company actually needs. It can combine strategy, operating structure, hiring-manager coaching, market intelligence, and hands-on search execution.
Rachel Hopper Grassi brings more than 20 years of recruiting experience from Google, Meta, TKO, and founder-led companies. She works directly with leadership teams to turn vague hiring urgency into clear priorities, credible searches, and decisions backed by evidence.
This is not a pile of generic recruiting hours. It is experienced judgment applied where your hiring system is leaking time, candidates, and confidence.
What fractional support can include
Leadership, execution, or both, based on the bottleneck.
Search strategy and delivery
Build talent maps, lead sourcing and outreach, assess candidates, create shortlists, and keep critical searches moving without sacrificing the read.
Interview and decision design
Create practical interview loops, evidence-based questions, feedback expectations, and decision rules that help teams compare candidates consistently.
Hiring-manager and vendor guidance
Coach managers, manage agency partners, improve candidate communication, read funnel signals, and give leaders an honest view of what the market is saying.
Choose the right model
One critical role and a broader hiring problem are not the same engagement.
When the need crosses several roles or the entire hiring system.
Fractional work is custom-scoped as a monthly engagement based on hiring volume, complexity, weekly involvement, and the balance of leadership and execution required.
Talk through the hiring needRetained search may be the cleaner answer.
For one executive, confidential, or revenue-critical search, a retained engagement creates clear ownership from role calibration through accepted offer.
Explore retained executive search20+Years in recruiting
5,000+Candidates interviewed
HundredsHiring managers advised
10+Industries recruited across
Direct answers
Fractional recruiting support FAQs
What is fractional recruiting support?
Fractional recruiting support gives a company part-time access to senior recruiting leadership and execution. The work can include hiring priorities, role calibration, sourcing strategy, interview design, market intelligence, candidate experience, recruiting operations, and active search support, depending on the engagement.
How is a fractional recruiter different from an agency recruiter?
An agency recruiter is usually hired to fill a specific position. A fractional recruiting partner works inside the broader hiring problem. That can mean improving how roles are defined, building interview scorecards, leading several searches, coaching hiring managers, managing recruiting vendors, or installing a repeatable process while the company grows.
When should a company hire fractional recruiting support?
Fractional support is useful when hiring demand is real but does not justify a full-time recruiting leader, when a company is between internal leaders, when several critical roles need structure and execution, or when the existing process is producing activity without confident hires.
Can fractional support include hands-on recruiting?
Yes. An engagement can combine leadership and execution, including sourcing, outreach, candidate assessment, hiring-manager calibration, process design, and offer support. The mix is scoped around the company’s actual hiring bottleneck.
How is fractional recruiting priced?
Fractional engagements are custom-scoped based on hiring volume, role complexity, leadership needs, expected weekly involvement, and whether hands-on search execution is included. The scope and monthly investment are agreed to before work begins.
Does Unicorn Wranglers work with remote teams?
Yes. Unicorn Wranglers is based in Las Vegas and provides fractional recruiting support to remote, hybrid, and onsite companies across the United States.
Hiring needs ownership, not more noise.