First Hire helps founder-led service firms define, source, assess, and select remote professionals without turning the founder into a full-time recruiter.
Choose the concern that matters most, inspect what First Hire makes visible, and move toward the next hiring decision with fewer unknowns.
We map the recurring work, interruptions, customer risk, and missed follow-through that are consuming founder or team capacity. That evidence becomes a role scorecard with measurable outcomes, a realistic scope, decision rights, management ownership, required working hours, and a compensation range before sourcing begins.
We map the recurring work, interruptions, customer risk, and missed follow-through that are consuming founder or team capacity. That evidence becomes a role scorecard with measurable outcomes, a realistic scope, decision rights, management ownership, required working hours, and a compensation range before sourcing begins.
A job board, recruiter, managed staffing firm, and employer of record solve different problems. First Hire is a direct-hire recruiting service: we organize the search and decision evidence, while you directly employ or contract the selected person and choose any payroll, contractor, or EOR provider.
A shortlist should reduce uncertainty instead of moving résumé review onto your desk. Each candidate brief separates observed evidence from self-reported history and organizes interview notes, role-specific work-sample observations, schedule, compensation alignment, motivation, strengths, tradeoffs, and open questions.
We help turn remaining questions into a structured interview plan so every finalist is evaluated against the same outcomes. The purpose is not to eliminate judgment; it is to prevent charisma, familiarity, or one polished answer from overriding the evidence the role actually requires.
The proposal identifies the recruiting scope, responsibilities, fee trigger, payment timing, and exclusions before work begins. After selection, First Hire coordinates references, offer alignment, start-date details, and an onboarding handoff; employment, payroll, classification, equipment, supervision, and ongoing management remain with the client or its chosen provider.
First Hire is launching as a direct-hire recruiting partner. The client employs or contracts with the selected person and chooses its own payroll, EOR, or contractor solution.
We evaluate job-relevant clarity, listening, written tone, comprehension, and judgment through live conversation and realistic scenarios. Accent is not a screening criterion.
Yes. Required overlap, schedule, start date, and other availability constraints are confirmed before a candidate reaches the shortlist.
Start with the work that keeps interrupting your week, plus the timeline and working-hour overlap you need.