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How To Hire The Best Virtual Assistant For Your Business

Updated on : 06-Oct-2023 08:30 AM

Hiring the right virtual assistant can be a game-changer for your business. However, hiring the wrong virtual assistant will leave you frustrated and annoyed.

This article will peel back the layers of confusion and reveal how to hire the best virtual assistant for your business.

The criteria for which I decided on is as follows:

  1. The right price. I mean, most people want to hire a virtual assistant because they can save a lot of money compared to hiring a local employee.
  2. The VA must speak and communicate in fluent English. (Why virtual assistants in the Philippines are so Americanized?)
  3. Quality of the virtual assistants. The key to outsourcing or hiring VAs is to replace local employees with more cost-effective yet equally talented overseas staff.

So without further ado, let me get straight into the steps to do it.

Questions To Ask Yourself Before Looking For A Virtual Assistant

  • What do you need your virtual assistant to do?
  • What specific tasks will they be doing?
  • How many hours will they be working
  • Do you know the going rate for the type of virtual assistant you need? (learn how to
  • Once you know the rate, how much can you afford to pay vs. the going market rate for that type of VA?
  • Three months down the line, what do you want your VA to be doing? Will they need to learn new skills?
  • Write down the essential skills your virtual assistant will already have.
  • Write down the character traits of your ideal virtual assistant.

Once you answer those questions, the next step is searching for your virtual assistant and narrowing it down to 3-5 potential candidates.

After you've narrowed it down, contact them and either ask them questions or invite them for an interview, which you could do by video call, audio, or whichever is your preference.

By the way, you can use our outsourcing marketplace to find virtual assistants. Just remember to create your free account, post jobs, and then reach out to the best applicants.

This article is not about "how to post a job." However, let me give you some quick tips on how to write an excellent job post that will get the best virtual assistants to apply:

  • State the job title in the headline.
  • Be clear in the description.
  • Include salary.
  • Include working hours.
  • List skills the virtual assistant must possess.
  • Talk about your business and why you're an excellent business to work for.
  • Be clear about the tasks/job role.

You can hire different types of VA's, for example, you could hire a social media virtual assistant, or if you're a realtor, you might want to hire a real estate virtual assistant specifically.

If you want my team at VirtualStaff.ph to help you professionally build your team in the Philippines, see our enterprise solution!

Not everyone wants to "DIY." Some businesses looking to outsource to the Philippines want to have the help and support of a professional outsourcing provider to take care of everything for them.

If this sounds like you, then it makes sense to check out our virtual staff enterprise solution.

Good luck, and reach out if you need any help.

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Michael Brodie - Philippines outsourcing expert
Helping make outsourcing to the Philippines easy for everyone. Michael is the Founder of VirtualStaff.ph - "The Philippines Outsourcing Marketplace".

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