Frequently asked questions about hiring with Cherry Assistant.

Cherry Assistant is an offshore staffing and recruiting agency based in the United States. We help businesses in the U.S. and the U.K. hire remote talent in South Africa and the Philippines. Our hires speak strong English, are college educated, and have role-relevant experience. We can support single placements, multiple hires, and larger team builds.

You speak with a recruitment consultant and we help define the role, the type of person you need, and the level of timezone overlap. Our team then sources, vets, and narrows the shortlist. In many cases, clients meet strong candidates within one to two weeks. Cherry Assistant can also handle payroll, compliance, and onboarding depending on the service model.

We need role priorities, responsibilities, required tools, and your preferred timezone overlap. If you are still deciding between a few different role versions, we can help narrow the scope before the search starts.

Most clients are matched with a candidate in about one to two weeks. More specialized roles can take longer, but we keep the process visible so you know what stage the search is in.

Yes. You meet and interview candidates before moving forward. Before that stage, Cherry Assistant already vets the shortlist through interviews, task review, references, background checks where relevant, and broader readiness checks.

Cherry Assistant most commonly helps clients hire executive assistants, sales development representatives, receptionists, general virtual assistants, customer support representatives, appointment setters, social media managers, designers, and operations support roles. We also support more specialized searches when the role requirements are clearly defined.

Yes, as long as the role requirements, interview criteria, and ownership expectations are clearly defined with your team. Cherry Assistant can support technical recruiting tracks when the role is scoped well.

Both. We can help with one critical hire, several role-specific hires, or a broader offshore team build depending on the service model and the management structure you need.

Yes. Many roles can be structured as part-time or full-time depending on the service lane and the amount of recurring work that needs to be owned.

Most clients assign work through email, chat, and tools like Asana, Slack, ClickUp, Trello, or a CRM. Cherry Assistant can help you create a cleaner handoff structure if you are still informal about task delegation.

If the match is not working, Cherry Assistant can help replace the hire and reset expectations so the next match is stronger.

You define the schedule and preferred overlap. Cherry Assistant prioritizes candidates who can work within your timezone expectations and operating cadence.

Most hires are sourced from South Africa and the Philippines. Cherry Assistant prioritizes talent who can overlap with your team hours and communicate clearly inside recurring business workflows.

Quality starts with tighter screening and continues through clearer role scoping, onboarding support, and regular check-ins where the model calls for it. The goal is to reduce ambiguity, not just place a candidate and disappear.

Billing depends on the model. Managed hire uses a monthly structure. Direct placement uses a refundable kickoff deposit and the remaining fee only after you hire. Enterprise engagements use a scoped commercial structure.

Cherry Assistant does not rely on long fixed contracts for the standard managed-hire lanes. Specific terms depend on the model and the structure of your engagement.

Yes. Cherry Assistant offers a direct-hire transition path for managed engagements when you want to move talent onto your internal team.

Cherry Assistant can help you put cleaner expectations and backup planning in place around time off, sick days, and basic coverage planning so the operating risk is lower.

Yes. Cherry Assistant takes data security and confidentiality seriously and uses agreements and operational safeguards appropriate to the role and the engagement.