What is a fractional recruiter?

A fractional recruiter is a senior-level recruiting professional who works with a company on a part-time or project basis. Unlike a staffing agency, a fractional recruiter embeds into your team, owns the full recruiting process, and charges no agency fees or placement percentages.

How is fractional recruiting different from using a staffing agency?

Staffing agencies charge placement fees, typically 15-25% of a hire's salary. A fractional recruiter works on retainer or hourly, with no placement fees, no markups, and full transparency into the process. The work is done inside your organization, not handed off.

What is the difference between a fractional recruiter and a freelance or contract recruiter?

Fractional, freelance, and contract recruiting are often used interchangeably. All refer to senior-level recruiting support without the cost of a full-time hire. Kelly Milner operates under all three models depending on the client's needs.

What types of roles can a fractional recruiter fill?

Kelly Milner has recruited for creative, marketing, technology, strategy, product, data, and executive roles across advertising, AI, healthcare, nonprofit, sports, and more.

Where is Kelly Milner based?

Kelly Milner is based in New York and works with clients locally and globally.

Talent Operations Specialist

Build your team without adding headcount.
Fractional recruiting and talent operations.

100^% Offer acceptance across 12 offers extended over 10 months

48^% Of hires sourced from referrals

45 People hired in 5 months

33^% Of hires sourced from network and resume mining

19^% Of hires from applicants

14 People hired in 7 weeks, including same-day hires

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01 — The Approach

Hiring Manager Partnerships

The Whole Process. Not Just the Search.

The recruiting process is owned end to end so hiring managers can stay focused on their work
Volume hiring and niche searches are not solved the same way.
Market intel and interview guidance are built into the process to sharpen decisions at every stage

Multi-Channel Sourcing

Job Boards Are Not a Strategy

Market research identifies where target talent lives, what they're being paid, and what it takes to move them
Sourcing happens through events, conferences, and direct networking
Sometimes the right hire is already on the team. Career coaching skills surface where talent is being underused before the search begins.

Relationship-Focused Recruiting

Recruiting With Retention in Mind

Candidate pipelines are built around future needs, not just the open req
After the hire, the work continues with check-ins for both candidates and hiring managers to make sure the placement sticks
Placements are treated as relationships, not transactions.

Operations Management

Systems That Outlast the Engagement

Recruiting data dashboards that track what's working and show where to go next.
Playbooks, Meet n' Greet programs, and steering committees built to outlast the engagement.
ATS architecture, job descriptions, and skill mapping designed for long-term use.

04 — Credentials

No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions — MIT HRCI Human Resource Associate Professional Certificate — Google Data Analytics — Google Life and Spiritual Coach — Life Purpose Institute Front End Web Development — General Assembly Product Management — General Assembly Event Planning — MediaBistro Programming for Non-Programmers — General Assembly Project Management Institute — UCLA Spanish Immersion Courses — ILISA Language School, Costa Rica Graphic Design — UCLAN, UK Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design — CCSU Fashion Design — Mount Ida College

05 — Off the Clock

Animal Rescuer Aunt Connector Data Lover Dog Mom ENFJ-A Experience Seeker Expert in Murphy’s Law Hiker Growth-Mindset Tech Enthusiast Wanderlust

06 — Beyond the Work

ASPCA Breast Cancer Career Coaching Mentor at ADPlist.org

07 — What people say

“Strategic in recruiting the right talent while maintaining a cultural compass. Thoughtful, clear expectations throughout the process.”

“More of a matchmaker. Goes beyond the search and ensures the relationships and processes are in place to make placements want to stay.”

“Smart, highly focused, keeps the best interests of the team top-of-mind. A people person at heart.”

“The one you call when you need something impossible done. Manages teams without micromanaging and inspires people to play to their strengths.”

Build your team without adding headcount.Fractional recruiting and talent operations.

The Whole Process. Not Just the Search.

Job Boards Are Not a Strategy

Recruiting With Retention in Mind

Systems That Outlast the Engagement

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