Holmrow.

Independent introduction service · Portland, Oregon

The seat you advertised can be filled in one to two weeks.

We are not the placement company. We introduce you to one. They keep a pool of people already tested for this work, they employ the person you pick, and they run the payroll. You interview a short list. You choose. Someone is in that seat inside one to two weeks.

See how the placement works

You came from a note about the role you posted. This page is the whole picture. The button opens the provider's page and carries our referral code, so they pay us a commission if you sign up. It costs you nothing, and it does not change their price.

45 seconds. It plays on this page, nothing to install.

Why the seat is still open

You wrote the ad. You paid to post it. And the work is still landing on you at nine at night.

The shortlist

Two people worth calling back

One wanted more than the role is worth, one stopped replying, and the other forty were never in the running. Free boards bring volume. You cannot hire volume.

The decision

A local hire is a big commitment

Full time at local wages, plus employer taxes and benefits, for work that does not need to sit in your building. Small wonder the decision keeps sliding to next month.

The cost today

You are the one covering it

Screening, phone tag, chasing references, then doing the work yourself at night. That is the ten-dollar-an-hour job you started a business to stop doing.

None of that is a hiring problem. It is a sourcing problem, and it has one fix: one place, one short list, one price, one timezone.

How the placement works

Three steps, and you stay the one who decides.

1

You describe the seat

One paragraph. The tasks, the hours, the tools, what has to be covered. No job description to rewrite, no spec sheet, no form with forty fields.

2

They send a shortlist

They screen out the people who break a placement: the ones who switch jobs every few months, the ones you cannot understand on a call, the ones whose answers a chatbot could have written. What is left, three or four people, lands in your inbox. This is a placement, not another job board.

3

You interview, you pick

You meet them, you choose, and they start inside one to two weeks. You never become an employer. The provider employs them, pays them and answers for them.

What the day to day looks like

Full time, in your tools, on your priorities, in the hours your business runs. The provider carries payroll, equipment, VPN and accountability. You direct the work. That is the whole list.

What it costs, and who pays it

You sign with the provider, not with us. Here is who charges what, in plain words.

What the provider charges

Monthly, per seat. Their published rate starts at $11 an hour for a full-time role, and taxes, benefits and the recruitment side sit inside that number rather than on top of it. Put it next to the same forty hours at local wages and the arithmetic does the arguing. Their current rates, terms and refund policy are on their page, which every button here opens.

What we get

If you sign up after clicking through from this page, the provider pays us a commission. It costs you nothing, it does not touch their price, and we never see your payment, your account or your data. You deal with them, start to finish.

Who this fits, and who it does not

It fits

Administrative or customer-facing work that does not have to happen 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 one city, under a local licence. A start date of tomorrow: this is one to two weeks, not one day. And if there is nobody you can hand anything to yet, fix that first. We would rather say it now than waste your fortnight.

Free. No call, no pitch.

Ten tasks to hand your new hire first, in order

You posted that ad because the work is eating your week. Here is the part nobody says out loud: it is almost never the work that pays. It is scheduling. Chasing paperwork. Answering the same question for the fourth time, in your own voice, because explaining it takes longer than doing it.

The guide is ten pages on exactly that, written for the admin, reception or scheduling role you just posted. Inside:

  • The fifteen-minute reality check that finds your ten-dollar-an-hour tasks.
  • The same forty hours costed locally and remotely, taxes and benefits included.
  • The five traps that turn a cheap hire into an expensive one.

It reads in one coffee.

It opens right here the second you hit send. We email you once about the role you posted, and one word back takes you out. See the privacy page.

Questions people ask

Is this a staffing agency or a virtual assistant company?

A managed service. The provider employs the person, runs the payroll and carries the accountability; you direct the work. You never take on an employee and you never touch the employment paperwork.

Do I have to screen anyone?

You interview the shortlist they send. That is what you are paying somebody else for: the filtering happened before you saw anybody, so you are not reading a hundred applications again.

Full time, or part time?

Full time is the usual placement and what the monthly price is built around. Smaller roles are placed part time at a lower monthly rate.

Where are the people, and do they work my hours?

The provider is United States based and United States led. The people they place work your hours, largely from the Philippines, Latin America and South Africa, and 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 makes one introduction; the provider does the work and bills you directly. They do not pay us for this page, 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 the file. There is no contract with us, nothing to cancel, and nothing to argue about.

See the seats they place, and what they charge

The next step is their page: the roles they fill, how they vet, today's pricing and their terms. Read it before you decide anything.

Go to the provider's page

You stay on this page 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.