Get an entire recruiting team– literally –for the price of one in-house recruiter
Keep control and save 60%.
Use us to identify and engage passive talent.
Use your team’s time to interview & hire.
“It’s Smartcore’s mission to equip leading organizations with cost-efficient, sustainable recruitment strategies that guarantee continuous access to top-tier professionals when they need them most.”
Why it matters
35% of U.S. businesses now use fractional hiring to reduce P&L volatility during hiring cycles, whilst reducing spend by 60% (Velux)
Traditional recruitment is slow, expensive, and inefficient, and businesses are shifting from agencies and complementing in-house teams with Fractional hiring solutions.
- Can you reach high-impact candidates who never apply on job boards?
- Can you compete with enterprise firms for the best talent?
- Can you consistently deliver quality hires under strict budget controls?
- Can you scale at the right pace without adding more overhead?
- What if you could whilst reducing hiring spend by 60?
Our Fractional Recruitment Services give you the speed and agility to scale—reducing hiring costs by up to 60% compared to agencies, without the long-term commitment of an internal employee.
Agency vs Fractional
Agency
- 20-33% fees per hire
- Reactive, one-off searches
- Manual sourcing & screening
- Agency juggling 15 clients
- 120+ day hiring cycles
- No candidate pipeline between searches
- Zero visibility into recruiting metrics
- Generic outreach templates
Fractional
- Fixed monthly rate
- Continuous talent pipelines
- Al-powered, recruiter-led
- Focused, embedded Candidate Specialist
- 30 day time-to-hire
- Always-on candidate relationship building
- Real-time hiring analytics dashboards
- Voice notes and video job descriptions
We install candidate sourcing and outreach workflows that save your team time and agency fees WITHOUT signing you up for a long list of subscriptions.
A standard in-house process
Successful organisations use us to scale their outbound recruiting engagement or risk missing passive candidates andnot growing
It's 90%+ inbound!
- In House Recruiter Tasks
- Write JD
- Post to LI & Job Boards
- Review 100’s of applicants
- Interviews
- Schedule & Update Hiring Manager
- Manage ATS
- Negotiate Salary
- On Boarding
- Manage the pipeline
- Proactive Outbound Sourcing?
The best candidates are not actively "looking" but they would be open to hearing about an opportunity if someone reached out.
Candidate sourcing
Inbound vs. Outbound
Inbound
- Pretty much anyone can apply.
- 100’s/1000’s to sift through.
- Best of the worst approach.
- Tons of admin work.
- Management of multiple job posts.
- Nothing proactive about this
- 90%+ Inbound
Outbound
- Target who you want.
- Speak only with qualified candidates.
- Best of the best approach.
- Focus on quality means less admin.
- Only manage candidates in dialogue.
- 100% Proactive.
- Multi-channel outbound communication
Fractional Solutions
Create your own mini agency on the back of ours
End to end process
Day 1
Intake
Design Custom Hiring Roadmap
Week 1
Launch
Candidate Outreach
Week 2
Engage
Candidate Screening
Week 3
Qualify
Client Interviews
Week 4+
Delivery
Offer & Onboard
Sound Expensive?
€60K/ANNUM Traditional Agency
Traditional Agency
For 2-3 hires (if they succeed)
≈ €250K/annum
Failed Hiring
In Lost Productivity per unfilled role
€110K - €150K/ANNUM
In-house
Totalcomp & Tools
From as little as €2000/month scale your business with technology & touch
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Fractional model
The smartcore Fractional model is a fully integrated solution that optimizes every stage of the hiring process.
- Eliminate high agency fees
Our Al-driven model reduces hiring costs by 60%. - Expand talent reach
Gain access to a vast, data-enriched network of over 100+ global providers. - Automate sourcing & outreach
Scalable human engagement delivers higher response rates than LinkedIn InMails. - Enhance hiring insights
Live reporting and real-time data tracking provide full transparency and informed decision-making. - Replace expensive LinkedIn Recruiter Licences
Save thousands annually by leveraging our premium LinkedIn accounts.