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Hire a Talent Acquisition Specialist

Hire a talent acquisition specialist without paying $75K+ a year. Get pre-vetted, AI-fluent talent acquisition specialists starting at $2.5K per month. We handle sourcing, vetting, payroll, and compliance so you can fill open roles faster, keep hiring managers out of resume screening, and run a consistent process without agency fees on every hire.

Talent Acquisition Specialist ยท At a Glance
Starting pricefrom $2.5K/mo
Typical local cost$6Kโ€“$7.5K/mo
Overhead reductionup to 70%
Embedded within30 days
Experience level3โ€“7+ years
โœ“ Skills-tested for the role โœ“ AI-fluency assessed โœ“ Remote Readiness Score

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A Better Way to Hire a Talent Acquisition Specialist

When hiring picks up, recruiting falls on whoever has the least protected calendar. Hiring managers screen resumes at night, candidates wait a week for replies, and good applicants take other offers while your process stalls. Recruiting agencies will move fast, but at 20% of first-year salary per hire it gets expensive quickly. Our model closes that gap: a full-time talent acquisition specialist who runs every search end to end for one flat monthly cost.

We run structured skills-based testing on full-cycle recruiting, real-world scenario evaluation like taking a vague intake brief and turning it into a scorecard and search strategy, and hands-on AI fluency assessment covering sourcing and screening tools. When you hire a talent acquisition specialist through us, they are embedded in your ATS and hiring workflows within 30 days, with no employment admin on your side.

What does a Talent Acquisition Specialist do?

A talent acquisition specialist owns searches from intake to accepted offer: defining the role, sourcing, screening, driving the process, and closing. That means hiring keeps moving even when your managers are heads down.

  • Run intake sessions with hiring managers to turn loose role descriptions into clear scorecards and search strategies
  • Source and screen candidates, running structured first-round interviews so managers only see people worth their time
  • Drive each search through the pipeline, keeping candidates warm, interviews scheduled, and feedback collected on time
  • Manage offers and closing, from comp conversations and references through signed acceptance and handoff to onboarding

When is it time to Hire a Talent Acquisition Specialist?

The moment usually arrives when open roles pile up faster than anyone can properly run them.

You have five or more open roles and no one whose actual job is filling them

Hiring managers are screening resumes and scheduling interviews instead of doing the work you hired them for

Strong candidates keep dropping out mid-process because days pass between touchpoints

Agency fees on your last few hires cost more than a full-time recruiter's annual salary would

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When we say the best, we mean it

We only work with the top 5% of candidates when companies hire talent acquisition specialist through us. Every candidate is skills-tested on the exact work this role does, assessed for AI fluency on real tasks, and scored with our proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful remote hires โ€” before they reach your team.

Pushes back on vague intake briefs and forces clarity on what great actually looks like before sourcing

Treats candidate experience as pipeline strategy, because slow replies and cold processes lose the best people

Screens for evidence and outcomes rather than keyword matches and brand-name employers

Closes with data and honesty, setting comp expectations early instead of losing candidates at offer stage

Tested to get in. Trained to stay ahead.

Testing

Three tests, then a human interview

1
Role skills150+ assessments, built for the exact role they'll do for you
2
Remote readinessOur proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful hires
3
AI fluencyReal tasks with a live LLM โ€” prompting, workflows, judgment
4
Interviewed by a real humanTop scorers meet one of our recruiters before you ever see them
Only the top 5% get in See the tests โ†’
NEVER STOPS
Training

Then they keep getting better

Your hirealways in training
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How We Find You Amazing Talent in 30 Days

01

You Specify a Role

You share job description, core requirements & key skills we should screen for.

02

We Source Talent

We run skills-based testing and manual screening, then deliver 3-5 candidates.

03

We Confirm Alignment

We confirm each candidate is interested in your role & aligned with your company.

04

You Interview & Select

You interview each candidate and, if needed, run a 1-2 hour test project.

05

We Handle Onboarding

We handle identity verification, NDA, compliant contracts & full payroll setup.

06

Your Hire Starts Working

Talent is embedded into your team and works like any other team member.

How much does it cost to Hire a Talent Acquisition Specialist?

Hiring a talent acquisition specialist locally typically costs $6,000 to $7,500 per month once you factor in salary, benefits, and overhead. With our model, you can reduce that cost by up to 70% while still getting a full-time talent acquisition specialist working directly inside your ATS, sourcing tools, and interview process.

Hiring locally
$6Kโ€“$7.5K/mo
Salary, benefits, and overhead factored in
Through us
from $2.5K/mo
Employment, contracts, and HR administration handled entirely on our side

We take on employment, contracts, payroll, and HR admin, and you skip per-hire agency fees entirely. When you hire a talent acquisition specialist through us, every closed search makes the next one faster: pipelines, scorecards, and market knowledge stay with your team.

Common Questions

How quickly can a talent acquisition specialist start?
Around 30 days. We match candidates to your roles and stack, you interview the finalists, and your specialist starts running intakes and building pipelines right after onboarding.
What kind of recruiting experience do they have?
Typically 3 to 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting, in-house or agency, across roles like engineering, sales, marketing, and operations. We match their search history to what you actually hire.
How do you vet them?
Structured skills-based testing on sourcing and screening, real-world scenarios like building a search strategy from a rough brief, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. Only a small percentage pass.
Can they recruit confidentially, for example a replacement hire?
Yes. Every specialist signs an NDA and is formally employed by us. They work under your access controls and can run sensitive searches with the discretion those situations require.
Will they work in my time zone?
Yes. We match on your working hours so interviews, debriefs, and candidate calls happen during your business day, and candidates never feel a gap.
Which tools do they know?
Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, GoodTime, and Calendly, plus AI screening and outreach tools they use to keep pipelines full without sacrificing quality.
How does this compare to using a recruiting agency?
Agencies charge roughly 20% of salary per hire and disappear after placement. Your specialist is full time, costs the same whether you make two hires or ten, and keeps improving your process.

Hire a Talent Acquisition Specialist today

Consistent hiring needs an owner, and agency invoices are not a strategy. Hire a talent acquisition specialist who runs full-cycle searches inside your team, fully vetted, at a fraction of local cost.

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