Virtual Assistant - candidate screening

We're a family in the Los Angeles area hiring a long-term nanny, and we're looking for an experienced recruiter or recruiting coordinator to run our candidate screening over the next 2-3 weeks. Candidates are coming in through Care.com. Your job is to take us from a large applicant pool to a short list of fully vetted, reference-checked finalists who are ready for in-person interviews. What you'll do: - Screen 50+ applicants against a scorecard of attributes we'll provide - Conduct recorded phone interviews with promising candidates using our question set - Organize, tag, and rank candidates in a shared tracker (Google Sheets or similar) - Contact and interview references by phone for shortlisted candidates, and document detailed notes - Compile everything into a clean, organized candidate report so we can make decisions quickly - Coordinate and schedule in-person interviews for finalists You're a great fit if you have: - Recruiting, sourcing, or high-volume screening experience (household/domestic staffing or high-touch personal hiring is a big plus) - Excellent phone manner and structured interviewing skills - Strong organization and clear, concise written documentation - Comfort working to a rubric/scorecard and keeping meticulous records - Discretion and professionalism handling a personal/family hire (confidentiality expected) Details: - Duration: about 2-3 weeks, part-time, volume-driven (heaviest load in weeks 1-2) - Remote for screening and reference calls - Tools: Care.com, Google Sheets/Docs, call recording, a scheduling tool - Note: interviews and reference calls will be recorded. Please record a video of yourself answering the screening questions for this job. Because of the rise in AI use, we need to do this to verify the authenticity of applications. Any applications without a video response will be ignored.