Launching an Audit to Sell My International Hiring Service
Zack AllenMay 2, 20264:52
Four questions stop founders from making their first overseas hire. I built an audit to answer them.
If you've been putting off a hire, you're probably stuck on four questions:
- What role do I hire?
- What country do I hire from?
- How much do I pay?
- How do I make sure they're any good?
You can't hire until you've answered all four.
Founders aren't lazy, they're paralyzed
In every business we've worked with, the founder never avoided hiring out of laziness. And I'm not going to tell you you're behind. You're paralyzed by the cost of hiring the wrong person: the money, and the time spent on someone who doesn't work out.
But it means you keep doing work you should have handed off. Your day goes to tasks that don't grow the business and don't need your judgment, but still have to get done, just not by you. Working harder won't get you out of that.
The math
Say you value your time at $150 an hour, and you spend 15 hours a week on work you shouldn't be doing. That's $2,250 a week. Over a month, it's about $9,000. Over a quarter, $27,000.
And that's only the dollar cost. Those hours kept the business from falling apart, but did they move anything forward?
It gets worse as you grow. Fifteen hours today becomes 22, then 30-plus a year from now. You're building up debt by keeping that work on your plate.
Local is expensive, the wrong overseas hire is worse
A local hire can run you $60,000 to $70,000 a year. Overseas, you can fill the same seat for a fraction of that and get the same output.
But the wrong overseas hire is worse than no hire at all. Three months of hiring and training someone who can't do the job isn't worth it. And learning the pitfalls by yourself takes hundreds of interviews.
Each of the four questions is a separate trap, and you only land the right person when you get all four right.
Why I built the audit
That's why I developed our hiring audit. It's a diagnosis of your business that answers all four questions, based on what's working for us in the market right now. It isn't a sales call, a course or a PDF template. It's built on the specifics you give us about your business.
The role. Not a generic virtual assistant. We name the specific gap in your team with the highest return, based on the patterns we've seen across the businesses we've placed talent with.
The country. The market with the deepest talent pool for that role, drawn from the applicants who come through our pipeline.
The salary. What to offer to attract the right talent without overpaying.
The red flags. How to spot a bad hire at every step, from signals refined across 500-plus interviews.
We run this audit at the front of every placement we do. It's the first hiring decision you'll have to make anyway.
The life on the other side
With those four answers, your day goes to the work you're world class at, your team does what you hired them for, and your time goes back to building the business. That's life on the other side of one great overseas hire. I know it's possible because I lived it myself.
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If you're watching this, you're stuck on these four questions. What role do I hire? What country do I hire from? How much do I pay? And how do I make sure if they're actually any good? You can't hire until you answer all four. Stay with me and I'm going to show you what we can do. In every business we've worked with, they never avoided hiring because the founder is lazy. And I'm not going to sit here and tell you you're behind because you haven't.
You simply are paralyzed by the cost of hiring wrong, the money, and the time wasted on the wrong person. But it means you continue doing the work you should have handed off. Right now, you're spending the day on tasks that don't grow the business, that don't need your judgment, but still have to get done, just not by you. None of that is what you signed up for, and no amount of working harder is going to get you out of that.
You probably haven't done the math yet. So, let's do it real quick. Let's say you value your time at $150 an hour. If you're spending 15 hours a week on work you shouldn't, that's $2,250 you're burning every week. Stretch that to a month, nine grand. Stretch that to a quarter, $27,000. Every week you wait, you're paying for a problem you could be solving. That dollar cost though is only half the picture.
What did those hours actually do for your business? Sure, it's the work that kept it from breaking, but did they actually move anything forward? As time goes on, this will only become worse. The 15 hours you're losing today might not feel like much, but as your business slowly grows, that turns into 22 hours, turns into 30 plus hours a year from now. You're creating more and more debt by keeping this work on your plate.
But making another local hire is going to run you 60 70 grand a year. Overseas, you can fill the same seat for a fraction of that and get the same output. But the wrong overseas hire is worse than no hire at all because the three months hiring and training just to have someone who can't get the job done is not worth it. But learning the pitfalls is going to take you hundreds of interviews.
Back to those four questions we started with. Each one you see here is a separate trap and you'll only land the right person when you nail all four of them. I want you to skip the guessing and get the answer to those questions. That's why I developed our hiring audit. It's a diagnosis of your business that answers all four questions based on the data of what's working for us in the market right now.
It's not a sales call or a program or a PDF template. It's built on the specifics of your business you provide us. It gives you the four answers to make the hire you need. First, you will know exactly which role to hire for, not a generic virtual assistant. We name the specific gap in your team that gets the highest ROI. This is built on the patterns we've seen across the 40 businesses we've placed talent with.
Second, you will know which country to hire from. We pick the market that has the deepest talent pool for the role you need. This is drawn from the 28,000 applicants come through our pipeline. Third, you'll know exactly what salary to offer that attracts the right talent without overpaying. And fourth, you will know how to spot a bad hire at every step of the way. I will give you these signals we have refined across 500 plus interviews and that's what hits your inbox custom to your business and ready to act the moment you open it.
And with that your day can be spent on the work you are world class at. Your team gets put towards the stuff you hired them to do and your time goes back to building the business. This is the life on the other side of one great overseas hire. I know that life is real because I experienced it myself and now we've helped 40 other founders get there. We run this audit at the front of each one of the placements we've done.
Our client Tim runs an 8 figureure e-commerce business. We placed many a talent with him over the recent years and he praised our diligence in the vetting process. That is the standard this audit is built on. I made this audit. If your time is the bottleneck in the business and you want one specific answer, not a whole 10-hour course with a bunch of modules to get through, there's two dimensions you can choose to live in.
Six months of figuring it out, or tomorrow, a written plan in your inbox. Three of those six months are going to go to a bad first hire and a salary you can't get back. And every week of waiting to hire is going to cost you that $2,250 we spoke about. You can get this audit for less than it costs you to go out to dinner. And it's the first hiring decision you're going to have to make anyway.
These four unknowns become four answers from the team that's done it over 70 times. Click below to get your audit custom to your business answering those questions. And if you continue working with us, best part, the small investment you make today is going to carry forward.
