Get Experienced Talent Leadership Without a Full Time Hire
As your business grows, hiring becomes more complex. You may need to recruit for several teams, develop new positions, manage hiring budgets, or improve the way your managers find and evaluate candidates. But adding a full time leader may not make financial sense. Better Method Talent provides fractional talent acquisition leadership for small and growing businesses throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
We give you access to an experienced recruiting leader who can develop your hiring strategy, oversee recruiting operations, guide your internal team, and help your business prepare for its next stage of growth. You get senior level recruiting expertise and hands on leadership tailored to your business, without adding another full time executive to your payroll.
What Is Fractional Talent Acquisition Leadership?
Fractional Talent Leadership gives your business access to an experienced talent acquisition leader on a part time or contract basis. Instead of hiring a permanent Director of Recruiting or Head of Talent Acquisition, you bring in someone who can take responsibility for your recruiting strategy and operations at the level your business needs.
For many small businesses, hiring responsibilities are spread across owners, HR generalists, department managers, and other employees. That arrangement may work when hiring needs are limited, but it becomes harder to manage as the organization grows. Without dedicated leadership, recruiting can become reactive. Hiring managers may follow different processes, important positions remain open longer than expected, and nobody has a complete picture of the company’s hiring needs or recruiting performance.
Better Method Talent can serve as an extension of your leadership team, bringing structure, accountability, and experienced decision making to your recruiting function. We work directly with business owners and senior leaders to establish priorities, develop hiring strategies, manage recruiting activities, and give the people responsible for hiring the guidance and resources they need.
Fractional Recruiting Leadership Services Built Around Your Business
You don’t need a large recruiting department to benefit from experienced talent acquisition leadership. Better Method Talent provides flexible support based on your company’s hiring activity, existing resources, and business goals. We can oversee an established recruiting team, help build a new talent acquisition function, or provide temporary leadership during a period of growth or transition.
Our Fractional Talent Leadership services can include:
- Talent Acquisition Strategy: Develop and manage a recruiting strategy that supports your company’s business goals, hiring priorities, and anticipated growth.
- Workforce and Hiring Planning: Partner with leadership to forecast hiring needs, prioritize positions, and establish realistic recruiting plans.
- Recruiting Operations Management: Oversee day to day recruiting activities, establish accountability, and help keep hiring initiatives on track.
- Recruiting Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and coach internal recruiters, HR professionals, and employees responsible for hiring.
- Hiring Manager Partnership: Work with department leaders to define hiring needs, improve collaboration, and strengthen recruiting decisions.
- Recruiting Process Development: Build or improve hiring workflows, interview procedures, candidate evaluation methods, and offer processes.
- Recruiting Technology: Evaluate and optimize applicant tracking systems and other recruiting tools to support efficiency and growth.
- Recruiting Metrics and Reporting: Establish meaningful hiring metrics and provide leadership with visibility into recruiting performance.
- Employer Branding and Candidate Experience: Strengthen how your company attracts candidates, communicates its value as an employer, and manages the hiring experience.
- Recruiting Function Development: Build a scalable talent acquisition operation that your internal team can eventually manage independently.
- Interim Recruiting Leadership: Provide experienced oversight during leadership vacancies, organizational changes, or other periods when your business needs additional support.
Our goal is to help your business build a recruiting function that works efficiently, supports your growth, and makes the best use of your available resources.
When Does Fractional Talent Leadership Make Sense for a Small Business?
Not every growing business needs a full time talent acquisition leader, but there comes a point when recruiting requires more leadership and attention than your existing team can provide.
Here are three common situations where Fractional Talent Leadership can make a difference.
- Your Business Is Growing Faster Than Your Recruiting Capabilities
Business growth creates new opportunities, but it also creates new hiring challenges. You may be expanding into new markets, adding departments, launching new services, or increasing your workforce to support customer demand. Suddenly, hiring becomes a major operational priority. Your existing HR staff and managers may be capable of filling occasional positions, but managing several simultaneous searches while planning future hiring requires additional time and expertise.
Better Method Talent can step in to provide the recruiting leadership your company needs during these growth periods. We’ll work with your leadership team to identify hiring priorities, develop a recruiting plan, coordinate resources, and oversee the activities needed to keep hiring moving forward. We can also help establish recruiting metrics, improve hiring manager communication, and develop processes that support a higher volume of hiring without creating unnecessary complexity.
As your business grows, your recruiting strategy should grow with it. - You Need to Build or Improve Your Internal Recruiting Function
Many small businesses reach a point where hiring is too important to manage informally, but they aren’t ready to hire an experienced talent acquisition leader. Perhaps you’ve recently hired your first HR generalist or internal recruiter. Maybe several department managers handle their own hiring, and you want to establish a consistent companywide approach. Or your current recruiting process simply isn’t producing the results you need.
Better Method Talent can help you develop the structure, processes, and leadership needed to build a stronger internal recruiting operation. We’ll assess your current approach, establish recruiting priorities, define responsibilities, and help implement the systems and workflows your team needs. We can also manage and coach internal recruiting staff, provide guidance to hiring managers, and establish performance metrics so company leadership has a clearer picture of recruiting activity and results.
The goal is to build a sustainable recruiting function that your employees can manage confidently as the business grows. - You Need Experienced Recruiting Leadership During a Transition
Changes in leadership, organizational structure, or business priorities can create gaps in your recruiting function. Your Head of Recruiting may have left the organization. A key HR leader may be on extended leave. Your company may be restructuring its recruiting responsibilities or preparing to hire its first permanent talent acquisition leader. During these transitions, hiring still needs to move forward.
Better Method Talent can provide interim talent acquisition leadership to maintain continuity, oversee recruiting priorities, and support the employees responsible for hiring. We can help manage existing recruiting activities, guide internal team members, evaluate processes, and keep leadership informed about hiring progress. If your company plans to hire a permanent recruiting leader, we can also help prepare the function for that transition by documenting processes, identifying priorities, and establishing a clear foundation for the incoming leader.
You get experienced leadership during a critical period without rushing into a permanent hiring decision.
How Our Fractional Talent Leadership Engagements Work
Fractional leadership should feel like having an experienced member of your team, not another outside consultant delivering recommendations that nobody has time to implement. Better Method Talent takes a collaborative, hands on approach to working with business owners, leadership teams, and employees.
Understand Your Business and Hiring Priorities
We begin by learning about your company, your business goals, your current recruiting practices, and the people involved in hiring. We’ll discuss your immediate staffing needs, anticipated growth, existing recruiting resources, and the challenges your organization is facing.
Establish a Leadership Plan
Together, we’ll define the responsibilities Better Method Talent will take on, the priorities we’ll address, and how we’ll work with your internal team. That could include overseeing recruiting operations, managing recruiters, developing hiring strategies, improving processes, or leading specific recruiting initiatives. We’ll also establish how progress will be measured and how we’ll communicate with company leadership.
Lead and Manage Recruiting Activities
When the engagement begins, Better Method Talent becomes an active partner in your recruiting. We’ll advise hiring managers, work with recruiting staff, monitor progress, and help resolve issues. Depending on your needs, we may also lead process improvements, introduce new recruiting technology, develop employer branding initiatives, or establish reporting procedures.
Build Long Term Recruiting Capabilities
Our work isn’t limited to solving immediate hiring problems. We also help your company develop the people, processes, and systems needed to support future recruiting activity. As your internal capabilities grow, we can adjust our level of involvement and help transition responsibilities to your team.
More Than Consulting: Leadership That Gets Involved
Traditional consulting engagements often focus on evaluating a problem and recommending a solution. Fractional Talent Leadership goes further.
Better Method Talent can take an active role in managing your recruiting function, setting priorities, guiding employees, monitoring results, and making sure important hiring initiatives continue moving forward. Instead of receiving a recruiting strategy and being left to implement it yourself, you have an experienced talent acquisition leader helping put that strategy into practice. For small businesses, this can provide an important bridge between managing recruiting internally without dedicated leadership and making the investment in a permanent Head of Talent Acquisition.