The questions founders and HR leaders ask most before signing on.
An internal recruiter is a fixed salary cost whether you're hiring five roles or zero, and you're responsible for managing, tooling, and eventually replacing them if they leave. Oculus Fractional gives you the same dedicated, embedded relationship, but as a flat monthly fee with no severance risk, no benefits overhead, and a team that's already built the infrastructure (ATS, interview process, comp benchmarking) rather than one person building it from scratch.
Contingency pricing means your cost scales unpredictably with every hire, and it incentivizes speed over fit. A flat monthly fee decouples cost from headcount of hires, covers the strategic work contingency never includes (interview design, reporting, hiring roadmap), and gives you one predictable number to budget against instead of a variable one.
The engagement is scoped to an agreed hiring roadmap, not unlimited recruiting. If your pace increases materially beyond that roadmap, we revisit the roadmap together first: the partnership is built to flex with reasonable changes in pace, and if the increase is substantial and sustained, we'll have a conversation about adjusting scope before it becomes a problem for either side.
Traditional RPO is typically a larger, more process-heavy engagement built for high-volume hiring, often with its own tiered pricing and account structures. Oculus Fractional is intentionally simpler: one flat fee, one point of contact, no enterprise consulting layer. It's built for companies that want a senior talent function embedded in their team, not a vendor managing a hiring pipeline at scale.
The engagement continues for the agreed term (6 or 12 months) because the value isn't only active search: it's the ongoing hiring infrastructure, strategy, and readiness so you can move quickly the moment hiring picks back up. If a sustained pause is expected, that's a conversation to have before signing so the term and scope reflect it.
Your monthly partnership includes dedicated support for your agreed hiring roadmap. It isn't unlimited recruiting on demand, but it's built to comfortably cover the roles you've planned for, and to flex with you as that plan evolves.
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