Role

Recruiting & HR VA

Recruiting & HR VAs run the top of your hiring funnel — sourcing on LinkedIn, screening inbound applicants, scheduling interview loops, and managing onboarding paperwork. They give you recruiter throughput without a recruiter salary.

What they handle

  • Candidate sourcing
  • Screening calls
  • Interview scheduling
  • Onboarding

Best for

  • Founders hiring 2–10 roles a year without an in-house recruiter
  • HR teams of one drowning in interview coordination
  • Agencies and firms scaling headcount on tight timelines

Tools they use

LinkedIn RecruiterGreenhouseLeverAshbyGustoRippling

The full top of funnel without an in-house recruiter

Recruiting is two-thirds operational work and one-third judgment. The judgment work — final interviews, offer decisions, culture fit — has to stay with the hiring manager. The operational work — sourcing, screening, scheduling, follow-up, candidate communication, onboarding paperwork — is exactly what a trained Recruiting & HR VA can own end-to-end.

For most small and mid-sized businesses, a dedicated Recruiting VA replaces the need for a full-time in-house recruiter at a fraction of the cost. They run sourcing on LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, AngelList, and your ATS of choice; conduct first-round screening calls; schedule interviews with hiring managers; manage the candidate pipeline; and own onboarding paperwork once an offer is accepted.

How we protect candidate experience

Slow, ghosting recruiting processes damage your employer brand. Our Recruiting VAs work to a defined SLA — first response within 24 hours, scheduling within 48 hours, post-interview follow-up within 24 hours of every conversation. That cadence matters as much as the sourcing strategy.

A repeatable hiring funnel without a full-time recruiter

The companies that hire well at small scale don't have an in-house recruiter — they have a repeatable funnel. A Recruiting & HR VA builds and runs that funnel: sourcing on LinkedIn Recruiter and Indeed against a defined ICP, conducting structured first-round screens with a written scorecard, scheduling hiring-manager interviews with full briefing packets, and managing candidate communication so nobody ghosts and nobody's surprised by an offer.

By the second hire run through the funnel, the cycle time drops dramatically — typically from 6–8 weeks to 3–4 weeks for non-executive roles. By the fifth hire, you have a hiring system: every role has a scorecard, every candidate gets the same experience, and you can predict the funnel math (sourced → screened → interviewed → offered → accepted) for any role you open.

Onboarding that doesn't end at day one

Most onboarding programs fail because they end the day the new hire's badge works. A Recruiting & HR VA owns the longer arc: the day-one welcome packet, the week-one check-in, the 30-day pulse survey, the 60-day review prep, and the 90-day decision conversation. That structure costs nothing extra to run and dramatically improves first-year retention — the single highest-leverage HR metric for a small business, since every early departure represents months of recruiting cost lost.

Sample responsibilities

A snapshot of the work a Recruiting & HR VA ships day-to-day. Your SOPs and priorities shape the actual mix.

Source passive candidates on LinkedIn and outreach against your ICP
Screen inbound applicants against role scorecards and route shortlists
Schedule interview loops across panelists, candidates, and time zones
Maintain ATS hygiene — stages, notes, and rejection comms
Run onboarding paperwork, I-9 collection, and first-day logistics
Track top-of-funnel metrics and report weekly on pipeline health

Example deliverables

Concrete artifacts your Recruiting & HR VA ships on a recurring cadence — so you always know what's coming and when.

Sourced candidate list

Weekly

Verified, ICP-matched candidates loaded into your ATS with personalized outreach sent — response rates tracked.

Scheduled interview loops

Per role

Interviews booked end-to-end with calendar invites, candidate prep packets, and panelist briefs delivered.

ATS hygiene pass

Weekly

Every candidate has a current stage, notes, and next step. Stale candidates closed with proper rejection comms.

Onboarding packet

Per hire

Offer, paperwork, equipment order, day-one schedule, and 30/60/90 plan ready before signing.

What "done" looks like

Measurable success criteria we hold the work to — reviewed weekly with your account manager.

  • Time-to-first-interview under 5 business days from intake
  • ATS shows zero candidates without a current stage and next step
  • Onboarding paperwork complete before day one — every hire
  • Weekly recruiting report includes funnel metrics and 3 takeaways
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