Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Your Most Important Hire?

Name: Your Most Important Hire?
Uploaded: 2024-04-16T16:00:53+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this advice video, the speaker argues that for recruiters and agency founders, hiring a virtual assistant—particularly one based in the…

16 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this advice video, the speaker argues that for recruiters and agency founders, hiring a virtual assistant—particularly one based in the Philippines—should be the top hiring priority. By delegating low-income‑generating activities such as email responses, CRM data entry, and LinkedIn outreach, a recruiter can reclaim roughly 20 hours per week, which is essential for scaling the business. The speaker emphasizes a step‑by‑step handoff process: create Loom video walkthroughs and detailed Google Docs to train the VA, treating these delegated tasks as $10–$20 per hour work that the recruiter should not perform themselves.

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You've only got, like I said, 40, 50 units of time per week, which I did this when I first started my business. I had a VA in the Philippines. It was the best hire I did. So you're trying to be a recruiter and start your own agency and run a business and do everything. And what you end up doing, you get distracted going the full end of the spectrum. Forget about the fundamentals of being a recruiter. So you need to buy back 20 hours a week of your time in order to like at least scale your business. So to do that, like there's low income generating tasks. We want to just eliminate them. So whether it's like respond to certain emails, building in your CRM, responding on LinkedIn, like there's so many things in your activity tree inventory that you can start to delegate, but you can't do it overnight. It's step by step. Is there a Loom video about it? Is there a step-by-step Google Doc? Can you hand that off to the VA? A lot of that time is like $10 to $20 an hour tasks that you should not be doing.