For employers
Hire a remote virtual assistant, employed by you
Diary, inbox, travel, expenses, chasing the things you keep meaning to chase, and holding the detail you do not have room for. Recruited in Manila, Johannesburg, Bogota or Dhaka, vetted on five stages including a task from your own work, and employed directly by your company.
How we test them
What a virtual assistant has to do before you meet them
A day of real tasks with conflicting priorities and no instructions on which comes first.
Usual software: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Notion, Slack. If you run something else, say so and we will test on it.
Where our clients are
Countries we place remote staff into
Before you see a name
Five stages, and most people do not get through
Remote hiring goes wrong when somebody is picked from a CV and a friendly video call. Every person we put forward has been through all five of these.
Skills assessment for the actual job
Not a general aptitude test. A bookkeeper reconciles a real set of books, a marketing assistant writes a real email.
English at C1 or above
Spoken and written, assessed by a person. C1 is the level at which somebody can handle a difficult customer without you rewriting the reply.
Video interview with our team
Recorded, and you get the recording along with the CV.
Background and reference checks
Identity, address, and two references we ring ourselves.
A practical task from your own work
You send us something real. They do it. You see the result before you commit to anybody.
How it works
They work for you, not for us
Employment
Employed directly by your company
No middleman in the arrangement, no percentage skimmed off their pay, and no ongoing agency fee attached to their salary.
Timing
Live in one to four weeks
There is no permit and no visa, because nobody moves country. That is the whole reason this route is quick.
Cost
Typically 50 to 70 per cent below a local hire
The saving is the local cost of living where they are, not a lower standard of work. We pay properly at the local level, which is why people stay.
If it does not work
Replacement cover
If a remote hire does not work out inside the cover period, we replace them and charge no second recruitment fee.
What we place
The remote roles we fill
- BookkeeperXero, QuickBooks, Sage
- AccountantXero, QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite
- Payroll administratorBrightPay, Sage Payroll, Gusto, ADP
- Customer service representativeZendesk, Freshdesk, HubSpot, Gorgias
- Sales development representativeHubSpot, Salesforce, Apollo, Pipedrive
- Back office administratorExcel, Google Sheets, your ERP
- Data and document controllerExcel, SharePoint, Procore, Aconex
- Marketing assistantCanva, Mailchimp, Meta Business Suite, WordPress
- Recruitment coordinatorWorkable, Bullhorn, Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter
For employers
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Who got permits near you, how many, the trend since 2014, and the biggest users in your sector. Built from the official figures, sent to your inbox in a minute, no retainer, no sales call unless you ask for one.