HR and Recruiting Virtual Assistants: Screening, Interview Scheduling and Onboarding Paperwork

Hiring is a full-time job on top of your real one. How an HR virtual assistant runs the admin side of recruiting and onboarding.

When a team is growing, recruiting admin swallows managers' calendars. An HR and recruiting virtual assistant runs the process so hiring managers only spend time on interviews and decisions.

Recruiting Coordination

  • Writing and posting job descriptions from your notes
  • Screening resumes against your criteria and building a shortlist
  • Scheduling phone screens and interviews across everyone's calendars
  • Sending interview kits, reminders and candidate updates
  • Keeping Greenhouse, Lever or your ATS current

Onboarding Paperwork

Your assistant sends offer letters for signature, collects tax forms and onboarding documents, sets up the new hire's accounts checklist and books their first-week meetings. Nothing slips because one person forgot a step.

HR Administration

  • Updating employee records in BambooHR, Gusto or Rippling
  • Collecting and auditing timesheets before payroll
  • Tracking PTO, certifications and review dates
  • Coordinating exit interviews and offboarding checklists
  • Running weekly remote team check-ins and compiling the notes

What Stays With You

Hiring decisions, compensation, performance conversations, terminations and any legal judgment stay with you and your HR advisor. Your assistant handles the process around them.

Pricing

HR & Recruiting Assistant packages start at $280 a month for 20 hours at the Skilled VA level. A busy hiring season usually needs 40 to 80 hours. Buy pay-as-you-go hours for a single hiring push. See HR & Recruiting packages.

Frequently asked questions

Still unsure? Open the chat and ask an account manager directly.

Can a virtual assistant screen candidates?

Yes, against criteria you set: must-have skills, location, salary range and availability. They shortlist and summarize; you make the hiring decisions.

Can they handle I-9 forms?

They collect and track onboarding paperwork and remind new hires of deadlines. Physical document inspection for Form I-9 must follow USCIS rules, which may require an authorized representative; your assistant coordinates it.

Which HR tools do they know?

Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, BambooHR, Gusto, Rippling and spreadsheets, plus Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

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