Contract Recruiting
Senior recruiters join your team for full-cycle hiring during peak seasons, backfills, or hard-to-fill roles — no permanent headcount needed.
- Full-cycle execution
- Rapid ramp-up
- Scoped by role or sprint
Modern recruiting solutions and hiring for teams that need to move faster.
Recruiting Solutions AI helps companies get hires, streamline hiring operations, reduce recruiting inefficiencies, and improve team performance through fractional recruiting support and workflow assessments.
We help recruiting and hiring teams uncover operational bottlenecks, reduce manual workload, improve recruiting processes, and build scalable hiring systems that support growth.
Fractional & contract recruiting
Process & workflow audits
AI-driven efficiency strategy
Built for the teams doing the hiring
Founder-led teamsInternal recruitingHR departmentsStaffing agenciesGrowth-stage startupsRecruiting firms
Recruiting operations, delivered as a service.
Five focused engagements that meet you where your hiring team needs help most — from execution and leadership to systems, strategy, and AI.
Fractional Recruiting
An experienced recruiting leader on-site a few days a week to own strategy, vendor decisions, hiring manager coaching, and team performance.
- Leadership on demand
- Hiring strategy & planning
- Manager coaching
Process Optimization
We re-engineer hiring workflows end to end — intake, sourcing, screening, interviews, offers — so candidates stop slipping through the cracks.
- Stage-by-stage redesign
- SLA & scorecard alignment
- Documented playbooks
AI Recruiting Efficiency
Practical AI tools layered into the work your team already does — sourcing, screening, comms, and reporting — to cut manual work without losing the human touch.
- Tool selection & rollout
- Automation of manual work
- Measurable time savings
Workflow Assessments
A structured audit of your hiring operation. We surface bottlenecks, quantify friction, and deliver a prioritized roadmap your team can act on fast.
- Operational deep-dive
- Quantified findings
- Prioritized action plan
Find what's slowing your hiring in two weeks.
A structured audit of your end-to-end recruiting operation. You'll get a written report with quantified bottlenecks, a prioritized action plan, and an AI-efficiency roadmap tailored to how your team actually works.
- Timeline
- 2 weeks
- Format
- Remote
- Deliverable
- Action plan
- 1
Discover
Stakeholder interviews, data pull, and a clear picture of your current recruiting operation.
- 2
Diagnose
Where candidates leak, where managers stall, where manual work compounds — quantified.
- 3
Prioritize
A ranked list of fixes by impact and effort, scoped for the next 30, 60, and 90 days.
- 4
Roadmap
A written operating plan your team can execute — or we execute it with you.
A senior recruiting leader, without the full-time cost.
For growing companies, founder-led teams, and overwhelmed HR departments who need executive-level recruiting judgment in the seat — not another agency sending résumés over the wall.
Recruiting leadership, on demand
An experienced head of recruiting operating inside your business 1–3 days a week.
Strategy and execution
Hiring plans, capacity modeling, vendor calls, and the daily work of moving roles forward.
Hiring manager enablement
Intake quality, scorecards, interview rigor — the upstream work that decides whether you hire.
Built to hand off
We design the operation so your in-house team can own it the day we step out.
A recruiting operations firm that uses AI — not the other way around.
Arnie Lockwood helps companies transform recruiting through practical AI solutions that save time, improve hiring outcomes, and empower recruiting teams to focus on what matters most—people.
With decades of experience leading talent acquisition and recruiting organizations, Arnie combines deep recruiting expertise with today's most effective AI tools to help businesses modernize their hiring processes without sacrificing the human touch. From AI recruiting audits and workflow optimization to fractional recruiting leadership, his goal is simple: help organizations hire better, faster, and more efficiently.
Whether you're a growing company building your recruiting function or an established organization looking to leverage AI, Arnie provides practical strategies that deliver measurable results.
- Operations first
- We're a recruiting operations and strategy firm. AI is how we make the work faster — not what we sell.
- Senior by default
- Engagements are staffed with experienced recruiters and recruiting leaders. No junior pass-throughs.
- Built to hand off
- Every system we put in place is documented, measurable, and owned by your team when we leave.
10+
Years in recruiting ops
200+
Roles closed for clients
30–50%
Avg. time-to-hire reduction
2 wks
From audit to action plan
Let's look at your recruiting operation together.
Book a strategy call or request a Recruiting Workflow Assessment. We'll respond within one business day.
- 30-minute discovery call with a senior recruiting leader
- Honest read on whether we can help — and where to start
- No-pressure follow-up with a scoped recommendation