Did you know that hiring a Filipino VA can be bad, stupid, and disastrous?
Let me explain in this article and hopefully help you understand the upsides and downsides to make an educated and informed decision if hiring Filipino VA's is the right decision for you and your business.
I'm also going to give you the top tips I use when it comes to managing and working with my Filipino Virtual Assistants, in addition to showing you how to mitigate or eliminate the bad & disastrous!
Let's start with the BAD STUFF:
BAD (1)
- You pay too little, and you end up hiring somebody terrible! If you want to hire someone with skill and experience, yet at the same time want to pay them $1.00 or $2.00 per hour, then you'll probably end up frustrated because the person won't be good enough.
SOLUTION
- Know the going salary rate for the position you wish to fill. On average, you can hire a virtual assistant in the Philippines for between $3.00 to $8.00 per hour, with the average for a solid intermediate VA being around $5.00 per hour.
- You can find out the going salary rate pretty easily. Just browse the thousands of virtual assistants registered on VirtualStaff.ph. Each virtual assistant sets their own target hourly salary rate in USD.
BAD (2)
- For whatever reason, you decide to send them a whole load of tasks, don't explain how you want things to be done, and have atrocious communication with one another.
SOLUTION
- Use all the communication tools that you get inside of VirtualStaff.ph. Message, call, video call, assign tasks. It's straightforward to keep good communication with your virtual assistant.
- Explain tasks clearly, break them down, explain expectations, and always have solid dialogue.
- Suppose you don't want to use VirtualStaff.ph communication tools, then have a Skype chat, Whatsapp chat, Trello/Slack, whatever tool you want to use.
- Each day simply send a "hi" or some form of "I'm alive and here" type of communication. Remember, especially the first few weeks, the virtual worker trusts you to pay them just as much as you're trusting them to be good at the job.
DISASTROUS
- You want to hire a rockstar VA or a super VA! One of the biggest, if not the biggest, mistake businesses make when hiring a virtual assistant is to think that they can employ this all-in-one person who can do everything.
SOLUTION
- Hire for the position! Do you need to find a VA with social media skills? Then choose one with those skills. The vital takeaway from this is always hiring for the position you need. Whether that's a virtual assistant, customer support agent, digital marketing manager, bookkeeper, or whatever position you need to fill.
THE GOOD (Finally, the light at the end of the tunnel!)
Here is the news that you want to hear. Thankfully, if you use common sense, learn from the mistakes of others, and take advantage of all the free material on our website, you can avoid making the mistakes and instead focus on either freeing up your time, increasing productivity, and growing your business by hiring a VA in the Philippines.
Below are FREE videos, tools, and articles that will help you avoid virtually all of the mistakes people make:
- Browse virtual staff and check out what salary people are looking for. This, in my opinion, is the best way as it cuts out the crap. You hear it direct from the source.
- The significant risks of outsourcing to the Philippines?
And finally, if you're new to outsourcing to the Philippines, or even if you're someone who has hired Filipino Virtual Staff before, I'd strongly suggest reading about the advantages of outsourcing to the Philippines.
