GROWTH HIRING PARTNERSHIP
Growth Hiring Partnership for Tech Startups and Growth-Stage Companies
Build a Continuous Pipeline of Passive Talent Without Paying a Placement Fee Every Time You Hire.
CareerEncore's Growth Hiring Partnership is a long-term, always-on recruiting model for tech startups and growing companies with ongoing and recurring hiring needs.
We combine deep intake and calibration, market analysis, AI-enhanced talent mapping and human-led, hyper-personalized multichannel outreach to continuously identify and engage passive talent across the roles your company needs as it grows.
CareerEncore confirms candidate interest and a small number of client-defined qualifications before handoff. Your internal TA or hiring team then takes over the full recruiting process from there.
PRICING AT A GLANCE
$3,000
per active job slot per month
✓ Starting at $3,000 per active job slot per month.
✓ Unlimited hires from each active job slot.
✓ 90-day pilot available.
✓ Built for long-term partnerships of 6 to 12+ months.
THE ECONOMICS
Invest in the Hiring Engine, Not Another Placement Fee.
Traditional recruiting agencies charge a placement fee each time you hire someone.
Hire one person.
Pay a placement fee.
Hire another person.
Pay another placement fee.
Hire another person.
Pay another placement fee.
For companies with ongoing hiring needs, those fees add up quickly.
The Growth Hiring Partnership changes the economics. CareerEncore continuously builds the top of your recruiting funnel across your active job slots for a predictable monthly fee.
Build the pipeline instead of paying for the placement.
POTENTIAL SAVINGS
Up to 70%
For companies with recurring hiring needs, the model can reduce recruiting costs by up to 70% compared with paying traditional per-placement recruiting fees on every hire.
BEYOND GO-TO-MARKET
One Hiring Engine. Multiple Functions. As Many Active Job Slots as Your Growth Requires.
CareerEncore continuously builds and replenishes passive-talent pipelines across the roles your company needs as it grows.
The Growth Hiring Partnership is not limited to go-to-market hiring. It can support repeatable hiring needs across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Analytics, Operations, technical functions and other areas of the business.
CareerEncore's recruiting experience spans leadership and go-to-market hiring as well as technical, engineering, operational and business functions.
Sales
Customer Success
Product
Engineering
Analytics
Operations
Technical functions
WHAT MATTERS
What matters is not the function. What matters is whether we can clearly define the talent profile, identify where that talent sits and build a sufficiently deep candidate market to keep the hiring engine running.
NO PRESET CAP
There is no preset cap on the number of active job slots. The partnership can scale as your hiring plan grows.
BETTER AS EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Highly specialized needle-in-the-haystack roles with extremely limited talent pools are better suited to one of CareerEncore's higher-touch Executive Search models.
How the Growth Hiring Partnership Works
CareerEncore Owns the Top of the Recruiting Funnel
CareerEncore handles the part of recruiting that many internal teams do not have the bandwidth to execute consistently: finding, reaching and creating interest with passive talent.
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1. Deep Intake + Calibration
We start by understanding the role, must-have qualifications, target candidate profile, company, culture, compensation, messaging and what makes the opportunity compelling.
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4. Interest Confirmation + Initial Qualification Check
CareerEncore confirms candidate interest and a small number of client-defined qualifications before handoff.
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2. Market Analysis + AI-Enhanced Talent Mapping
We analyze the talent market, identify relevant target companies and use AI-enhanced research to map where the right talent sits.
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5. Candidate Handoff to Your Team
Interested candidates who have cleared the initial qualification check are handed directly to your internal TA or hiring team.
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3. Human-Led, Hyper-Personalized Multichannel Outreach
We take the opportunity directly to passive candidates through a coordinated, multi-touch outreach sequence designed to create genuine interest.
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6. Continuous Pipeline Replenishment
While your team moves candidates through its recruiting process, CareerEncore continues working the market and replenishing the top of the funnel.
Your Team Takes It From Here
Once a candidate is handed off, your internal TA or hiring team conducts the full recruiter screen, deeper qualification, interview coordination, interviews, selection, offer and close.
Under the standard Growth Hiring Partnership, CareerEncore is no longer involved in that candidate's hiring process after handoff.
That clear division of labor is how we provide continuous access to passive talent at a significantly lower cost than traditional full-service recruiting.
STEP 3, UP CLOSE
3. Human-Led, Hyper-Personalized Multichannel Outreach
AI helps CareerEncore analyze the market and identify the right talent. The candidate engagement itself happens person to person.
Every active job slot includes a coordinated, multi-touch outreach sequence using:
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Personal LinkedIn messaging
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Personal LinkedIn voice notes
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Personal LinkedIn selfie video outreach
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Email outreach
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Ongoing multichannel follow-up and response handling
Employer Brand Representation
CareerEncore represents your company and opportunity transparently in the market, operating as an extension of your team.
Outreach is built around what makes the role, company and opportunity compelling so passive candidates understand not just what you're hiring for, but why the conversation may be worth having.
Optional Professional Video Job Description
For roles where you want a more polished candidate-marketing asset, CareerEncore can create a professional video overview of the company, opportunity and role.
The example shown on our How We Work page is CareerEncore-branded for demonstration purposes. Client videos can use your company's logo, brand colors and visual identity, or can remain more neutral if preferred.
Optional add-on: starting at $500 per role.
What the Standard Growth Hiring Partnership Includes
Depending on the number of active job slots and agreed scope, the standard partnership includes:
✓ Deep intake and calibration
✓ Market analysis and AI-enhanced talent mapping
✓ Passive-candidate identification
✓ Human-led, hyper-personalized multichannel outreach
✓ Transparent employer brand representation
✓ Continuous top-of-funnel pipeline generation
✓ Interest confirmation and initial qualification checks
✓ Candidate handoff to your internal TA or hiring team
✓ Ongoing market feedback and calibration
✓ Reporting and pipeline visibility
✓ Flexibility to scale active job slots as hiring needs change
A shared dashboard or more robust reporting can also be added depending on the engagement.
JOB SLOTS
How Does a Job Slot Work?
One active job slot = one active job requisition.
EXAMPLE
If you're hiring three Account Executives against the same requisition, all three hires can come from that one active job slot.
PRICING
$3,000 per month. Unlimited hires from that active job slot. The monthly rate does not increase based on how many people you hire from it.
ADDING A SLOT
If you need to recruit for another requisition at the same time, you add another active job slot for $3,000 per month. There is no additional setup fee when you add a brand-new job slot.
REASSIGNING A SLOT
When an existing active job slot is reassigned to a different requisition, CareerEncore completes a new intake, market analysis, AI-enhanced talent mapping, messaging strategy and outreach setup.
That reassigned slot continues at $3,000 per month, plus a one-time $1,000 Job Slot Reassignment Fee to cover the work required to launch the new requisition.
NOTICE
CareerEncore requires 30 days' notice to reduce, retire or reassign an active job slot.
Candidates We Introduce Are Yours.
Candidates delivered to your team through an active Growth Hiring Partnership job slot become part of your hiring pipeline.
If you don't hire someone today but decide to hire that candidate three, six or even twelve months later, there is no future CareerEncore placement fee attached to that candidate under the standard Growth Hiring Partnership.
They're in your pipeline. They're yours to hire.
Built Around the Recruiting Team You Already Have, Even If You Don't Have One Yet.
IF YOU HAVE AN INTERNAL TA TEAM
If you have an internal TA team, CareerEncore can expand its reach by continuously working the passive market and engaging candidates your team may not have the bandwidth to pursue proactively.
Your recruiters stay focused on deeper qualification, interviews, hiring-manager coordination and closing while CareerEncore keeps the top of the funnel moving.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ONE YET
If you do not have a dedicated internal recruiting team, the partnership can be customized. Candidates can be handed directly to the appropriate hiring team, or CareerEncore can provide a greater level of recruiting support when needed.
FLEXIBLE SCOPE
Need Us to Do More? We Can.
The standard Growth Hiring Partnership is intentionally designed to keep costs low by focusing CareerEncore on the top of the recruiting funnel: market analysis, AI-enhanced talent mapping, passive-talent engagement, initial qualification and candidate handoff.
If your team needs deeper candidate screening, more extensive recruiter involvement, interview support or a more full-cycle recruiting model, CareerEncore can expand its role or combine the Growth Hiring Partnership with Fractional Recruiting.
Because deeper recruiter involvement requires more time and resources, pricing adjusts based on the level of support requested.
We'll design the model around what your team actually needs rather than forcing every company into the same recruiting package.
SAVINGS EXAMPLE
What Can the Savings Look Like?
Example: Ten Hires Across Five Active Job Slots
THE HIRING PLAN
A growing company needs:
• Account Executive: 3 hires
• Product Manager: 2 hires
• Software Engineer: 2 hires
• Senior Business Analyst: 2 hires
• Systems Engineer: 1 hire
10 total hires across 5 active job slots.
TRADITIONAL AGENCY MODEL
$300,000
10 hires × $30,000 average recruiting fee = $300,000 total recruiting cost
GROWTH HIRING PARTNERSHIP
$95,000
5 active job slots × $3,000/month = $15,000/month
$15,000 × 6 months = $90,000
One-time implementation fee = $5,000
Total Growth Hiring Partnership Cost = $95,000
POTENTIAL SAVINGS
$300,000 - $95,000 = $205,000 SAVED
Approximately 68% lower recruiting cost in this example.
One hire or ten hires from the same active requisition, the $3,000 monthly job-slot fee stays the same. You pay for the active job slot, not for every person you hire from it.
For illustration, this example uses a blended average traditional agency fee of $30,000 per hire. Actual recruiting fees vary based on compensation and fee structure.
WHO IT IS FOR
Who Is the Growth Hiring Partnership Built For?
The Growth Hiring Partnership is designed for companies with ongoing, recurring hiring needs, not companies looking to fill a few positions and then stop recruiting.
It is built for long-term partnerships where hiring will continue over time. That may mean:
✓ Continuously recruiting for recurring positions
✓ Hiring multiple people against the same requisition
✓ Building out multiple functions during a sustained period of growth
✓ Maintaining multiple active requisitions across the organization as the company scales
✓ Giving an internal TA team more bandwidth to proactively reach passive talent
The roles do not need to be go-to-market positions. The model can support recurring hiring across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Analytics, Operations, technical functions and other areas of the business.
The model is designed for 6 to 12+ month partnerships, with the flexibility to scale active job slots as hiring needs change. Companies that want to validate the model before making a longer commitment can begin with a 90-day pilot.
What It Is Not Designed For
✕ The Growth Hiring Partnership is not designed as a low-cost way to outsource two or three short-term hires and then stop recruiting.
✕ It is also not designed for confidential executive searches, C-suite or VP-level leadership searches, or highly specialized needle-in-the-haystack roles where only a very small number of people in the market fit the requirements. For those searches, CareerEncore's Executive Search models are generally the better fit.
PRICING
Growth Hiring Partnership Pricing
One-Time Implementation Fee:
$5,000
Covers the initial partnership setup, hiring-plan calibration, intake, market analysis, talent-mapping strategy, messaging and campaign infrastructure required to get the hiring engine running.
Active Job Slot:
$3,000 per month per active job requisition
Includes unlimited hires from that active job slot. The monthly rate does not increase based on how many people you hire from that requisition. Adding a brand-new job slot does not trigger another setup fee. The new slot simply begins at $3,000 per month.
Job Slot Reassignment Fee:
$1,000 one time
Applies only when an existing active job slot is converted from one requisition to a different requisition. The reassigned slot continues at $3,000 per month, plus the one-time $1,000 reassignment fee. The fee covers the new intake, market analysis, AI-enhanced talent mapping, messaging strategy and outreach setup required for the new requisition.
CareerEncore requires 30 days' notice to reduce, retire or reassign an active job slot.
Optional Professional Video Job Description:
starting at $500 per role
Available for clients who want a more polished candidate-marketing asset beyond the standard personal video outreach included in the multichannel sequence.
90-Day Pilot Available
The Growth Hiring Partnership is designed for long-term hiring relationships of 6 to 12+ months. Companies that want to validate the model first can begin with a 90-day pilot and scale from there. There is no preset cap on the number of active job slots. The partnership can scale with your hiring plan.
Pipeline Delivery Commitment
At the launch of each active job slot, CareerEncore and the client agree on a realistic candidate-delivery target based on the role, market depth, requirements and level of difficulty.
If CareerEncore does not deliver the agreed number of interested candidates who have cleared the initial qualification check, we will continue working that active job slot at no additional monthly charge until the agreed delivery commitment is met.
The commitment assumes the role requirements, compensation, location parameters and hiring criteria remain materially consistent and that the client provides timely feedback throughout the engagement. If an active job slot is reassigned to a different requisition, a new delivery target is established for that requisition.
FAQ
Questions We Hear About the Growth Hiring Partnership
How is this different from hiring a traditional recruiting agency?
Traditional recruiting agencies charge a placement fee each time you hire someone. The Growth Hiring Partnership is built around active job slots and a predictable monthly fee. CareerEncore continuously analyzes the market, identifies passive talent, runs hyper-personalized multichannel outreach and sends interested candidates who have cleared an initial qualification check to your team. You pay for the active hiring engine, not another placement fee every time someone gets hired.
Why does it cost less than traditional full-service recruiting?
CareerEncore is focused on the top of the recruiting funnel, where many internal teams lack the bandwidth to consistently work the passive market. We handle the market analysis, AI-enhanced talent mapping, passive-candidate identification, hyper-personalized multichannel outreach, candidate engagement and initial qualification check. Once an interested candidate clears that initial qualification check, we hand the candidate to your team and your team takes it from there.
Your internal TA or hiring team conducts the full recruiter screen, deeper qualification, interview coordination, interviews, selection, offer and close. Under the standard Growth Hiring Partnership, CareerEncore is no longer involved in that candidate's hiring process after handoff. That division of labor is how we provide continuous access to passive talent at a significantly lower cost than traditional full-service recruiting.
Can CareerEncore work alongside our internal recruiting team?
Absolutely. In fact, that is one of the best uses of the model. CareerEncore can continuously work the passive market while your internal TA team handles deeper qualification, interviews, internal coordination and hiring. You get additional recruiting horsepower without asking your team to somehow find more hours in the day.
What if we don't have an internal recruiting team?
The partnership can be customized. CareerEncore can provide additional screening or recruiting support when needed, or we can combine the Growth Hiring Partnership with Fractional Recruiting. Because deeper recruiter involvement requires more time and resources, pricing adjusts based on the level of support requested.
What kinds of roles is this best for?
The Growth Hiring Partnership is designed for organizations in sustained growth mode with ongoing or recurring hiring needs. That can include recurring individual-contributor roles, multiple hires against the same requisition, team buildouts, and active hiring across Product, Engineering, Analytics, Operations, Sales, Customer Success and other functions.
It is not designed for confidential executive searches, C-suite or VP-level leadership searches, or highly specialized needle-in-the-haystack roles with extremely limited talent pools.
Are there placement fees when we hire someone?
Under the standard Growth Hiring Partnership, there are no individual placement fees for candidates hired from an active job slot. You pay the monthly job-slot rate, and you can make unlimited hires from that active requisition without the monthly rate increasing based on the number of hires. Candidates CareerEncore introduces through the standard partnership also do not carry a future CareerEncore placement fee if you decide to hire them later.
What if our hiring priorities change?
Active job slots can change as your hiring plan changes. If you add a brand-new job slot, there is no additional setup fee. The new slot simply begins at $3,000 per month. If you reassign an existing active job slot to a different requisition, that slot continues at $3,000 per month and a one-time $1,000 Job Slot Reassignment Fee covers the new intake, market analysis, AI-enhanced talent mapping, messaging strategy and outreach setup. CareerEncore requires 30 days' notice to reduce, retire or reassign an active job slot.
How long is the partnership?
The Growth Hiring Partnership is designed for long-term hiring relationships, typically 6 to 12+ months. Companies that want to validate the model first can begin with a 90-day pilot and scale from there.
NEXT STEP
Let's Talk About What You're Trying to Build
If your company is entering a period of sustained growth, has recurring hiring needs or needs a more cost-effective way to keep passive-talent pipelines moving, let's talk through what the next 6 to 12 months of hiring look like.
We'll look at your active and expected requisitions, internal recruiting resources, the number of job slots that make sense and the level of support your team actually needs.
Start with a free 20-minute hiring strategy consultation. No pressure. No one-size-fits-all pitch.