Senior-led recruiting for small and midsize businesses nationwide: direct hire, fractional recruiting, and embedded RPO. When you are small, a wrong hire hurts more and a slow one costs more, so BizFirst gives you a senior Client Delivery Lead as your single point of contact, experienced recruiters running the hiring, and flat, predictable fees. Every price is published, from a $3,500 flat-fee single-role search to an embedded recruiter at $8,500 a month. We recruit IT and software, finance and operations, and program management talent from Ashburn, Virginia, for clients across the country.
Larger firms load a recruiter with twenty or thirty clients and put the newest accounts last. BizFirst is boutique by design, so your Client Delivery Lead carries only three or four clients. For a founder or a small team doing the hiring yourself, that means senior help, fast answers, and hiring that actually moves.
Your senior Client Delivery Lead is your single point of contact, learns your business, keeps the hiring aligned to your priorities, and reviews every submission. Experienced recruiters handle the sourcing and screening.
Fill a single role on HireSelect at a flat $3,500, pay per hire with DirectHire, or add a flat monthly embedded recruiter with PartnerHire Core. Every option is transparent and flat, so a small team is not surprised by the bill.
On an embedded engagement, sourcing starts immediately and first qualified candidates typically arrive within about three business days. Momentum matters most when you are small.
Begin with a single hire, then add an embedded recruiter as hiring picks up. You add capacity when you need it and scale back when you do not.
Most small-business engagements begin with a short call about the roles, the bar, and the timeline. We recommend the model that fits, DirectHire for a one-off or occasional hire, or an embedded recruiter for steady hiring, and send a firm quote, usually within one business day. Then we start sourcing. Not sure which option fits? Compare flexible & fractional recruiting. Venture-backed and hiring fast? See Startup Recruiting.
Yes. A large share of BizFirst clients are small businesses and growing teams that need to hire well but do not have a recruiting function yet. You work directly with a senior Client Delivery Lead who carries only three to four clients, so a small account still gets real attention.
Yes. That is the company BizFirst is built for. Below a few hundred employees, hiring comes in bursts, and a full-time recruiter or talent acquisition team sits idle between them. Many small and midsize companies treat recruiting the way they treat payroll, IT, or bookkeeping: a function worth outsourcing so the team stays focused on the core business. BizFirst fills that role. A senior Client Delivery Lead runs your hiring as an extension of your team, with recruiters added when you are hiring and released when you are not, on flat fees you can budget. You keep the decisions, the interviews, and the offer. We handle everything that gets a qualified candidate to that point.
Three flexible options. HireSelect fills a single role for a flat $3,500. DirectHire is contingent, typically 10 to 15 percent of first-year salary and priced per hire, which fits occasional hires. 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. PartnerHire Core is a flat monthly embedded recruiter for steady, multi-role hiring. All are transparent and flat, so a small team can budget with confidence. See full pricing details.
On an embedded engagement, first qualified candidates typically arrive within about three business days. On a contingent DirectHire engagement, first submissions usually arrive within five to seven days.
No. Northern Virginia and Washington, DC are a focus and BizFirst is based in Ashburn, VA, but the work is remote-friendly, so BizFirst recruits for small businesses nationwide.
It depends on the option. HireSelect is our flat-fee, single-role recruiter-only service. DirectHire, our contingent model, includes a senior Client Delivery Lead who oversees the search on each role. PartnerHire adds an embedded, ongoing Client Delivery Lead who manages one or more dedicated recruiters, sized to your requirement, and quality-assures every submission. So a managed BizFirst fee is not simply the price of a recruiter.
Measured against the 20 to 30 percent most agencies charge, yes, and the prices are published. HireSelect fills one straightforward role for a flat $3,500. DirectHire is typically 10 to 15 percent of first-year salary with a $15,000 minimum. PartnerHire Core puts a dedicated recruiter on your roles for $8,500 a month plus a flat $1,000 per placement. Every DirectHire and PartnerHire engagement also includes a senior Client Delivery Lead who owns delivery and reviews every submission, which is the part a lone recruiter's lower invoice leaves out: the calibrating, supervising, and re-starts land on you instead.
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.
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.
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Small and mid-sized businesses need strong hires without a big-agency fee. BizFirst places the roles you actually hire for at a transparent rate, typically 10 to 15 percent of first-year salary, well below the usual 20 to 30, with embedded and flat-fee options too. Here is where we help most.
IT, software engineers, AI, and data roles. See technology recruiting.
Accountants, financial analysts, and operations leaders. See finance & operations.
Program and project managers, including cleared PMs. See program management.
Tell us the roles and your timeline, and we will recommend the simplest way to get there and send a firm quote, usually within one business day.
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