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15+ years in talent acquisition
100+ placements across growth teams
Tampa Bay based national searches

Engagement Models

Choose the right recruiting model.

Executive search, fractional recruiting, or recruiting operations support depending on the role, market, and urgency.

Fractional Recruiting

Senior recruiting execution without full-time talent headcount.

Use it for: Growth hiring, recurring roles, overloaded founders, and lean hiring teams.
You get: Sourcing, screening, weekly rhythm, candidate communication, and hiring-manager calibration.

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Executive Search

Research-led search for senior or business-critical hires.

Use it for: VP, director, commercial, operations, product, and hard-to-fill specialist roles.
You get: Market mapping, discreet outreach, shortlist rationale, interview guidance, and close support.

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Recruiting Operations

Cleaner hiring systems when process friction slows the search.

Use it for: Unclear scorecards, slow feedback loops, ATS friction, and inconsistent interviews.
You get: Workflow cleanup, interview rubrics, reporting cadence, and better decision structure.

Improve the hiring process

Search Process

Sharper role briefs. Cleaner shortlists. Better hiring decisions.

ACS tightens the role, market, outreach, and candidate signals before the search becomes a resume funnel.

How fractional recruiting works

Embed into the hiring rhythm.
Calibrate the role and candidate signals.
Deliver qualified conversations and a cleaner process.

Role and Market Alignment

Define outcomes, scorecards, and realistic candidate pools before outreach begins.

Targeted Outreach

Engage qualified talent with measured communication that protects your brand.

Shortlist and Assess

Deliver candidates with context: why now, why this role, and what to pressure-test.

Close and Improve

Support interviews, offer strategy, reporting, and the hiring system around the search.

Sector Focus

Sectors ACS specializes in.

Health tech, biotech/pharma, AI, digital health, and advanced manufacturing roles across Tampa Bay and national U.S. searches.

Health tech team reviewing hiring priorities in a modern office

Health Tech Recruiting

Healthcare IT recruiting for product, commercial, operations, data, patient experience, and leadership roles.

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Executive search strategy session for specialized leadership hiring

Biotech and Pharma Recruiting

Biotech recruiters and pharmaceutical headhunters for clinical, quality, regulatory, commercial, and specialist leadership searches.

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Recruiting operations dashboard and hiring analytics review

AI and Digital Health Recruiting

AI recruiters for agentic AI architects, health AI talent, MLOps, product, engineering, trust, and enablement roles.

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Leadership team reviewing a candidate shortlist for a specialized search

Advanced Manufacturing Recruiting

Manufacturing recruiters Tampa teams can use for operations, plant leadership, quality, regulatory, sales, and business development hiring.

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Why ACS

Precision over resume volume.

Clearer role calibration, focused outreach, and shortlist context from a senior recruiting partner.

Founder-led by Jen Acosta

Every engagement is guided directly by a senior talent acquisition consultant with 15+ years across startups and Fortune 500 environments.

Tampa Bay based, national reach

ACS supports Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and national U.S. searches for remote, hybrid, and specialized roles.

Precision over resume volume

Searches are built around market research, candidate signal, outreach narrative, and shortlist rationale instead of recycled databases.

Confidential Leadership Search

VP-level commercial leader for a health tech growth team.

Challenge: Role needed business-stage fit, not resume volume.
ACS changed: Built a focused market map and calibrated must-have leadership signals.
Result: A shortlist aligned to the role, stage, market, and commercial mandate.

Applied AI Hiring

Digital health role requiring product, technical, and regulated-market fluency.

Challenge: Broad requirements made candidate evaluation inconsistent.
ACS changed: Tightened the role profile, outreach narrative, and interview rubric.
Result: Hiring managers aligned on the technical and regulated-market signals before late-stage interviews.

Embedded Recruiting Support

Fractional recruiting rhythm for a team not ready to hire in-house.

Challenge: Founders needed senior recruiting structure without permanent headcount.
ACS changed: Added sourcing, screening, ATS hygiene, and hiring-manager feedback cadence.
Result: One accountable recruiting rhythm across sourcing, screening, feedback, and candidate communication.

Founder

Jen Acosta brings executive-search discipline into a more flexible recruiting model.

With more than 15 years in talent acquisition, Jen has supported commercial, operational, and leadership hiring across health tech, biotech, pharma, AI, digital health, and advanced manufacturing.

ACS was built for companies that need a senior recruiting partner before they are ready to build a full internal talent team or commit to a traditional retained-search model.

"A strong shortlist starts before sourcing. We clarify the role, the market, and the signals that actually predict fit."

15+Years experience
4Core sectors
100+Placements
Fortune 500To startups

Hiring Guidance

Which recruiting model is right for your search?

Hiring leaders often know the role is important before they know which recruiting model fits. These decision paths keep that choice simple.

When to hire a fractional recruiter Read the guide Fractional recruiting vs. contingency recruiting Compare models Hiring AI and digital health teams Read the article

FAQ

Questions hiring leaders ask before choosing a recruiting partner.

Fractional recruiting and executive search solve different problems. ACS helps clarify the right path before the engagement begins.

What is fractional recruiting?

Fractional recruiting gives your company senior recruiting support for a defined amount of capacity without hiring a full-time recruiter. ACS embeds into the hiring rhythm, manages sourcing and screening, and improves the process around the search.

When should a company use executive search?

Executive search is the better fit when the hire is senior, confidential, specialized, or business critical and you need market mapping, discreet outreach, and a carefully calibrated shortlist.

Does ACS work outside Tampa Bay?

Yes. ACS is based in Tampa Bay and supports Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Florida, and national U.S. searches for remote, hybrid, and specialized roles.

Which industries does ACS serve?

ACS focuses on health tech, biotech, pharmaceutical, AI, digital health, advanced manufacturing, and adjacent specialized growth markets.

How is ACS different from Tampa recruiting agencies or headhunters?

ACS is a founder-led recruiting partner rather than a high-volume agency model. Hiring leaders work directly with Jen Acosta on role calibration, market mapping, targeted outreach, and shortlist rationale.

Start the Conversation

Request a search strategy call with ACS.

Share the role, hiring challenge, or recruiting model you are considering. Jen will follow up to confirm fit and next steps.

(727) 254-7719 jen@acsrecruiter.com

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