Independent introduction service · Portland, Oregon
The seat you advertised can be filled in one to two weeks.
Not with more applications. With a shortlist of vetted, full time remote staff who do the job, work your hours, and cost well under a local hire. No recruitment fee, and no contract with us.
See how the placement works Watch the 45-second version- Vetted before you see them
- Full time, your hours
- Starting in 1 to 2 weeks
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Why the seat is still open
You wrote the ad, you paid to post it, and the work still lands on you at nine at night.
WHAT HAPPENED
The shortlist was thin
Two people worth calling back, one who wanted more than the role is worth, and one who stopped replying. Free boards bring volume, not fit.
WHAT IT COSTS
A local hire is a big decision
Full time at local wages, plus employer taxes and benefits, for a role that does not need to sit in your building. So the decision keeps sliding to next month.
WHAT YOU ARE PAYING NOW
Your own hours
Screening, phone tag, chasing references, and then covering the gap yourself. That is the ten dollar an hour work you started a business to stop doing.
None of that is a hiring problem. It is a sourcing problem: one place, one price, one timezone.
How the placement works
STEP 1
You describe the seat
One paragraph is enough: the tasks, the hours, the tools you use, the hours you need covered. No spec sheet, no job description to rewrite.
STEP 2
They send a shortlist
The provider keeps a pool of people already vetted and tested for this kind of work, and matches from it. This is a placement, not another board.
STEP 3
You interview, you pick
You meet a small shortlist, choose the one you want, and they start inside one to two weeks. You never become an employer: the provider employs them and runs payroll.
What the day to day looks like
The person works full time, in your tools, on your priorities, in the hours your business needs. The provider handles employment, payroll, equipment standards, VPN and accountability. You direct the work, you do not administer a hire.
What it costs, and who pays it
What the provider charges
Full time placements are billed monthly by the provider, per seat, and their current rates, terms and refund policy are on their page, which the buttons here take you to. For the same forty hours, a local hire usually costs well over double once employer taxes and benefits are in.
What we get
If you sign up with the provider after clicking through from this page, they pay us a commission. It costs you nothing, it does not change their price to you, and it is not a service fee we bill.
Who this is for, and who it is not for
It fits
A role that is administrative or customer facing and does not need to be in your building: reception and front desk, admin and scheduling, bookkeeping support, inbox and follow-up, customer service, back office. Businesses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and France.
It does not fit
Work that has to happen on site, in a specific city, or under a local licence. A start date of tomorrow: this is one to two weeks, not one day. And if you have nobody you can delegate to, fix that first.
Free guide, no call
Not ready to talk to anyone yet?
Take The Delegation Playbook instead. Ten pages on the part that goes wrong before anybody is hired: which jobs to hand over first, what to write down so a new person can pick them up, and how to stop the handover landing back on your desk. We wrote it, it is ours, and it costs nothing.
Your download starts straight away. We keep the address to follow up once about the seat you are filling and nothing else, and one line back gets it deleted. See the privacy page.
Questions people ask
Is this a staffing agency or a virtual assistant company?
It is a managed service: the provider employs the person, runs payroll and accountability, and you direct the work. You do not take on an employee, and you do not manage the employment side.
Do I have to screen anyone?
You interview the shortlist they send. That is the whole point: the filtering happens before you see the people, so you are not reading a hundred applications again.
Full time only?
Full time is the usual placement, and it is what the monthly price is built around. Part time seats exist at a lower monthly rate if the role is smaller.
Where are the people, and do they work my hours?
The provider is United States based and United States led, and places people who work your hours, largely from the Philippines, Latin America and South Africa. They also hold customers in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and France.
Are you the provider?
No. We employ nobody and deliver nothing here. Holmrow is an independent introduction service: we make the introduction, the provider does the work and bills you directly. We are not affiliated with them beyond the introduction, they do not endorse us, and we never ask for logins or payment details.
What if it is not a fit?
Say so in one line and we close it out. There is no contract with us and nothing to cancel.
See the seats they place, and what they charge
The next step is the provider's own page: what the roles are, how the vetting works, current pricing and their terms. Read it before you decide anything.
Go to the provider's pageYou stay on this site until you click. The link carries our referral code, which is what pays the commission described above. We are not the provider and they do not endorse us.
What we are, and what we are not
We are an independent introduction service. We do not employ the people who do the work, we do not deliver it and we do not support the service you buy: that belongs to the provider, under their terms and their refund policy. We may earn a commission when someone we introduced signs up, at no extra cost to them. We promise no particular outcome, and we never ask for logins, payment details or access to your clients.