Building Teams That Actually Work

I want to address the elephant in the room: ‘fractional recruiter’ sounds like a compromise. It sounds like ‘we can’t afford a proper one, so we’ll get the part-time version.’ I understand why it reads that way – and I’d like to challenge it, because in my experience, it’s completely backwards. For the founders I work with – bootstrapped, founder-led, typically between five and fifty people – a Fractional Talent Partner is often the most commercially intelligent hiring decision they’ll make. Here’s why. What a Fractional Recruiter Actually Does A fractional recruiter isn’t an agency. They don’t take a percentage of salary and disappear. They don’t throw CVs over a