Embedded and contract recruiters for Northern Virginia and DC.

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. Engagements are month-to-month and scale up or down. You can add a contract recruiter for a hiring surge, a post-award ramp, or a defined project, then scale back when the need passes.

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.

There is no long minimum to get started. PartnerHire Core is month-to-month, with a notice period that scales with team size: 30 days for one or two recruiters, 90 days for three or four, and negotiated terms for larger teams.

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.