When one hire at a time is not enough, BizFirst embeds a recruiting team as an extension of yours. Also known as RPO, managed recruiting, or Talent Acquisition as a Service, PartnerHire Core supports your team's growth with dedicated recruiters and a senior Client Delivery Lead who take the hiring work off your plate, with first candidates in about 3 business days. Month-to-month, and it scales with you.
An embedded engagement gives you dedicated recruiters who work your roles the way an internal team would, matching your bar, your priorities, and your voice with candidates. It is the model to reach for when you are hiring across several roles at once, ramping after an award, or scaling a function faster than one contingency hire at a time can support.
You get named recruiters focused on your reqs, not a queue shared across twenty accounts. They learn your product, your bar, and your hiring managers, and they represent you to candidates.
A senior lead sets strategy, manages the recruiters, and reviews every submission before it reaches you. Each lead carries only three to four clients, so your account gets real attention.
Sourcing, outreach, screening, scheduling, and offer support, run on our recruiting stack. You keep control of the bar and the decisions; the team carries the load.
Add a recruiter for a surge or a post-award ramp, then scale back when the need passes. Engagements run month to month after a 90-day start, so capacity follows your hiring.
An embedded engagement moves fast because the team starts sourcing on day one and a senior lead is engaged from the first call. Here is the shape of a typical first month.
We meet your hiring managers, learn the roles and the bar, and align on process, tools, and priorities.
Sourcing is already running. First qualified candidates typically reach you within about three business days.
The team scales outreach across your open roles, screens on every submission, and manages scheduling.
Weekly pipeline reporting, offer support, and steady adjustments as your priorities shift, up or down.
Embedded recruiting suits Northern Virginia and DC teams that are hiring across several roles at once: a GovCon prime or subcontractor ramping after an award, an AI or data team scaling headcount, or a growing company that needs a recruiting function without building one internally yet. If you use terms like RPO, managed recruiting services, or embedded talent acquisition, this is the BizFirst model that maps to them.
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Embedded recruiting, which BizFirst calls PartnerHire Core, places a dedicated recruiting team alongside yours on a monthly basis, as an extension of your team. The team sources, screens, and manages the full lifecycle through offer as an extension of yours. A contingency agency works role by role and is paid only on a placement. Embedded fits recurring or high-volume hiring, where a steady team and pipeline matter more than one-off hires.
Yes. Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), embedded talent acquisition, managed recruiting, and Talent Acquisition as a Service all describe the same model: an outside recruiting team running part or all of your hiring. BizFirst delivers it as PartnerHire Core, priced as a flat monthly rate per dedicated recruiter.
First qualified candidates typically arrive within about three business days of kickoff, because the team starts sourcing immediately and a senior Client Delivery Lead is engaged from day one.
Yes, two ways. PartnerHire Core starts with a 90-day initial period and then runs month to month, scaling recruiters up or down, so you can add a dedicated recruiter for a hiring surge, a post-award ramp, or a defined project and scale back when the need passes. If you want a contract recruiter inside your own ATS and process, directed by your hiring manager and billed for time at their pay rate plus a published markup, that is ContractHire Recruiters.
A senior Client Delivery Lead owns the engagement and carries only three to four clients, so your account gets hands-on attention. The lead sets strategy, manages the recruiters, and reviews submissions before they reach you.
You don't need your own ATS or recruiting tools to run PartnerHire. We work in BizFirst's own applicant tracking system and bring the full sourcing stack, major job boards included, so you get an embedded team's output without standing up the infrastructure to run one. Your candidates stay yours: at the end of an engagement, on request, we transfer the resumes and history for every candidate we submitted, so the work you paid for stays with you.
No. A PartnerHire fee covers a managed recruiting engagement: a dedicated recruiter plus a senior Client Delivery Lead who owns client alignment, recruiter oversight, and quality assurance of every candidate submission. Reading the fee as the price of one recruiter understates what is included.
Not directly. A fractional or marketplace recruiter is typically one person executing searches, with the client responsible for calibration, oversight, and quality control. PartnerHire adds a senior Client Delivery Lead who performs that oversight and QA for you, so the scope, and therefore the price, is different.
Compare the total delivery model, not recruiter fees alone. Ask whether each option includes a recruiter, a senior Client Delivery Lead, independent candidate-submission QA, client-facing delivery management, recruiter oversight, and clear accountability. If those functions are not included, the services are not equivalent, and a lower price may reflect a narrower scope.
Yes. Your PartnerHire Core recruiter works full-time, 40 hours a week, on your roles, for $8,500 a month per recruiter, with a senior Client Delivery Lead overseeing the work and reviewing every submission. It is a dedicated resource worked by a recruiter, rather than a share of a pooled team or a cap on the number of open roles.
PartnerHire Core has a 90-day minimum, then runs month to month with a notice period that scales with team size: 30 days for one or two recruiters, 90 days for three or more. A 6-month minimum lowers the rate to $8,000 per month per recruiter ($8,500 for a cleared-role seat, and $500 less on every additional seat). The published rates are our small and midsize business pricing. Enterprise programs (an MSA, preferred-vendor terms, or a larger recruiting program) are scoped and quoted separately.
Compare what the fee includes. BizFirst is a full-time recruiter at 40 hours a week, dedicated to you, with a senior lead on quality and a flat $1,000 per hire. Lower-priced subscriptions often provide capacity for a set number of roles, a shared or part-time recruiter, or technology-led sourcing. Confirm hours per week, exclusivity, who runs the work, and the binding term before comparing on price.
Your fee is recruiting execution plus a senior Client Delivery Lead who oversees the work and quality-assures every submission. If what you want is a recruiter inside your own process, billed for time, that is ContractHire Recruiters.
Included in PartnerHire Core & Complete. DirectHire includes a per-role Client Delivery Lead. HireSelect, our flat-fee single-role option, is recruiter-only, and ContractHire Recruiters are directed by your own team.
Some teams aren’t looking to have a recruiting function built. They have one, with a hiring leader, a process, and an ATS they trust, and what they need is a full-time recruiter working inside it.
That is ContractHire Recruiters. We assign one named, full-time, U.S.-based recruiter, approved by you before they start. They work in your ATS, follow your process and screening criteria, and take day-to-day direction from your hiring leader. You set the priorities and make every hiring decision.
BizFirst stays the employer. We handle compensation, taxes, benefits, and performance management, and a BizFirst account lead stays available for coverage, escalation, and service issues. If the recruiter needs replacing, we handle it.
This is capacity, priced as capacity: the recruiter's pay rate plus a published markup, hourly or as a fixed monthly rate, with every hire included, because you are running the process and making the calls. The published rates are our small and midsize business pricing. Enterprise programs (an MSA, preferred-vendor terms, or a larger program) are scoped and quoted separately.
Best for companies with an established talent function, a defined hiring ramp, and systems of their own. Engagements carry a 90-day initial period and continue month to month. How ContractHire works
A BizFirst dedicated recruiter is a full-time resource: one recruiter working 40 hours a week on your roles, backed by a senior Client Delivery Lead, month to month after a 90-day start, with 30 days’ notice for one or two recruiters, and a flat $1,000 per hire with no percentage of salary.
Monthly prices are only comparable once you know what each one includes. Before you compare on price, confirm five things with any provider:
BizFirst’s answers: full-time at 40 hours a week, dedicated to you, recruiter-led with a senior lead on quality, month to month after a 90-day start, with 30 days’ notice for one or two recruiters, and a flat $1,000 per hire.
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