Weekly Direct Hire - Recruiting for Permanent Hourly Employees
Weekly Direct Hire for employers who want permanent hourly based employees from day one.With Weekly Direct Hire, you pay an affordable flat fee made across weekly payments. Your hire is never a temp. They start on your payroll as a permanent dedicated member of your team from the first day.
How Weekly Direct Hire Works
Our Weekly Direct Hire offering is for companies who have determined to have the most success with hiring employees directly or due to on job risk factors, have no other hiring option available. This offering is for companies that need to hire an hourly employee, making $60k or less and want an affordable option. Friday offers two package options to fill these roles and sources, screens, and presents qualified candidates.
Once you select your hire, they go on your payroll from day one. You pay a flat weekly fee for a set number of weeks, instead of one large placement expense. This gives you the quality of professional direct hire staffing with a billing and fee structure that works for growing businesses.
Why Employers Choose Weekly Direct Hire
Permanent From Day One
When an employee knows the job is permanent from the start, they show up differently. No temp mentality, no hedging, no wondering whether the role will last. Permanent from day one means committed from day one — and that leads to stronger retention and faster ramp-up.
Affordable Weekly Billing
Weekly direct hire spreads your all in fee over time, giving you the same quality of recruiting with payments that align with your cash flow and budgeting cycle. The amount is determined off several factors but should always be lower than what you would pay for either a professional direct hire or a contract to hire employee. Our goal is to provide you with a flexible option that lets you pay weekly and inline with how you pay for a contract to hire employee. If the employee is let go for any reason, weekly payments stop and we get to work on refilling the role.
Access to a Stronger Candidate Pool
Some of the best candidates that are experienced, currently employed, selective about their next move will not apply to temp or temp-to-perm postings. They prefer permanent opportunities . Weekly direct hire lets you reach that talent pool because the offer is permanent employment from day one.
Weekly Direct Hire Options:
Turnkey — Fully Managed
With Turnkey, Friday owns and manages the full recruiting process end-to-end. You review finalists and make the hire.
What’s included:
- An Ideal Candidate Profile
- We create Job Description or turn yours into a high performing Job Advertisement
- Post Job Ad on high performing job boards and source via internal database and pipelines
- Regional Compensation Benchmarking to make sure that the wage is inline
- Screen Candidates against your specific criteria
- Optional: We take over your entire candidate pipeline and screen 100% of applicants
- Optimize Client Interview Questions tailored to your Ideal Candidate Profile
- Thorough Reference Checking
- Notification to All Applicants as to their Status
- Weekly Billing
- Optional: Pre-Employment Assessments
Best for: Companies with one to four hourly open roles, or HR teams that are stretched and need recruiting taken off their plate entirely. Requires 25% upfront, but pay the rest over a set number of weeks, same total costs as with contingent.
Contingent — Flexible Support
As-needed direct hire support for companies that have occasional openings and want a reliable partner to help add additional candidates to their job pool. Pay only when you hire. If we find the right person, you hire them directly and pay weekly.
What’s included:
- We work to evaluate who makes an ideal candidate
- Screen Candidates against your job description
- Recommend the highest qualified for further evaluation
- Weekly Billing
Best for: Internal recruiting teams that need flexible reach for occasional open roles without the overhead of a full-service engagement.
Not sure which package fits?
We will help you figure it out — no pressure, no commitment.
Is Weekly Direct Hire Right for You?
Weekly direct hire packages are built for small to mid-size employers who are ready to hire directly and want a smarter way to structure the cost. Check if your situation qualifies:
- Roles normally paid hourly, with compensation at or under $60K annually
- Full-time, permanent positions only
- All industries — no restrictions on role type. Including manufacturing, construction, healthcare, warehousing, skilled trades, and more
- No minimum commitment — start with a single role
Frequently Asked Questions
How is weekly direct hire different from traditional staffing?
Traditional staffing typically places candidates on a temp or temp-to-perm basis. Weekly Direct Hire places employees permanently with you from Day 1 with the cost structured as flat weekly payments across several weeks, rather than a percent based on hours worked or a single upfront placement fee. Your hire is a permanent member of your team.
How is weekly direct hire different from a traditional placement fee?
A traditional professional direct hire placement fee is typically 20 to 30 percent of first-year salary, paid in a lump sum at the time of hire. Weekly direct hire spreads investment across affordable flat weekly payments, giving employers access to directly hiring with a billing structure that is easier to absorb.
What roles qualify for weekly direct hire?
Weekly direct hire is available for full-time, permanent positions with annual compensation under $60,000. There is no minimum hiring volume, you can start with a single role. If you are unsure whether your position qualifies, call us and we will confirm.
Do I need to commit to multiple hires?
No. You can start with a single role and a single package. There is no minimum volume requirement and no long-term contract before you see results. If your hiring needs grow, we scale with you. If you need more comprehensive support, we may also recommend our Dedicated Recruiting Support model for high-volume hiring pushes
What if I need more support than the package offers?
We’ll talk through your situation and recommend the right fit. If your hiring needs are more complex or ongoing, you may need our Dedicated Recruiting Support model, an embedded recruiter who works inside your company for as long as your hiring push requires.
Ready to Find Your Fit?
A 15-minute call with Friday is enough to figure out which package fits your team and whether weekly direct hire is the right move for where you are right now.
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