DirectHire is full-cycle recruiting for a permanent role, priced per hire, with a $5,000 engagement fee credited in full toward the placement fee and a 90-day replacement guarantee. We are based in Ashburn and focus on Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC metro, and because our recruiting is proactive we place direct hire talent for clients nationwide.
Reach for DirectHire when you have an occasional, specialized, or hard-to-fill role and you would rather pay per hire than carry a monthly engagement. A senior Client Delivery Lead owns the hiring and experienced recruiters run the sourcing and screening, you keep the priorities and the final decision, and the balance of the fee is due when someone starts.
Typical time to offer: 21–30 days for non-cleared roles, 30–45 days for cleared roles.*
*Typical ranges from recent searches, not guarantees. Security clearance transfer or adjudication is a separate government process that adds time.
Typically 10 to 15 percent of first-year base salary. 10 percent applies to a new, straightforward requirement on a 30-day exclusive; otherwise 12 to 15 percent, by the difficulty and qualities of the role. Reduced rates for repeat clients and several similar openings.
If a placement does not work out within the first 90 days, we recruit a replacement. We match on fit as well as skill, which is why 94% of placements stay past 90 days.
Your Client Delivery Lead carries only three to four clients and oversees your search directly, backed by experienced recruiters, rather than handing it to a junior coordinator. First submissions in about 5 to 7 days.
The engagement fee is the first part of your placement fee, credited in full when your hire starts, so the balance due at hire is the fee less $5,000. A minimum placement fee of $15,000 applies. The published rates are our small and midsize business pricing. Enterprise programs (an MSA, preferred-vendor terms, or several roles at once) and executive, highly complex, or high-clearance (Poly) roles are scoped and quoted separately.
Most of our direct hire work is in Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC metro, where we know the GovCon, cleared, AI, and technology markets from the inside. But a good hire is not limited by geography. Because our recruiting is proactive and remote-friendly, we recruit direct hire talent for clients anywhere in the United States.
We place individual contributors through senior leaders, cleared and commercial, across GovCon, AI and data, technology, and finance and operations. A few examples.
20+ cleared financial management and IT professionals placed for a $3B government solutions integrator on a SeaPort-e program in 7 months. Read the case study
20+ cleared consultants and developers placed for a global consulting firm across cloud, data, and cybersecurity. Read the case study
Direct hire recruiting, which BizFirst calls DirectHire, is full-cycle recruiting for a permanent role. BizFirst runs sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and offer support, A $5,000 engagement fee opens the search and is credited in full toward the placement fee, the balance is due when your hire starts, and every placement carries a 90-day replacement guarantee.
DirectHire is typically 10 to 15 percent of the hire's first-year base salary. A $5,000 engagement fee opens the search and is credited in full toward the placement fee, with the balance billed when your hire starts. 10 percent applies to a new, straightforward requirement on a 30-day exclusive; otherwise the fee is 12 to 15 percent, set by the difficulty and qualities of the role, with long-open, heavily-worked requirements priced toward the top. A minimum placement fee of $15,000 applies. The published rates are our small and midsize business pricing. Enterprise programs (an MSA, preferred-vendor terms, or several roles at once) and executive, highly complex, or high-clearance (Poly) roles are scoped and quoted separately.
Yes. Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC metro are a focus, and BizFirst is headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Because our recruiting is proactive and remote-friendly, BizFirst places direct hire talent for clients nationwide.
Similar. A headhunter or contingency recruiter runs a search and is paid on a hire, which is exactly how DirectHire works. The difference at BizFirst is that a senior Client Delivery Lead owns the hiring directly and carries only three to four clients, with experienced recruiters doing the sourcing and screening.
Individual contributors through senior leadership across GovCon and cleared programs, AI and data, technology and cyber, and business, finance, and operations, including program managers, engineers, data scientists, financial management analysts, and executives.
No. Even on our contingent model, a senior Client Delivery Lead oversees the search and carries only three to four clients, with experienced recruiters doing the sourcing and screening. You are paying for senior delivery ownership and candidate quality review, not just recruiter hours. The embedded, ongoing Client Delivery Lead across all of your roles is part of the PartnerHire models.
Because the published price often represents only the recruiter. A DirectHire fee also includes a senior Client Delivery Lead who oversees the search and reviews submissions. A lower invoice for a lone recruiter can carry a higher total cost once you account for the time you spend calibrating, supervising, and QA-ing that recruiter, plus poorly matched submissions and search resets.
Tell us the role and your timeline, and we will confirm the fee and get started, usually with first candidates in about 5 to 7 days.
Start hiringBook a time, email us, or just call. Whatever's easiest.
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