How To Get Started Finding
Rock Star Virtual Assistants

While onlinejobs.ph offers tons of profile features that help you objectively evaluate a candidate's skill, knowledge, and reliability. It's best that you know the mindset and approach so you're 100% confident with your hire/

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The most common characteristic we see for when people are ready to start outsourcing is they have a process or task in their business that they know how to do and can teach it to someone else.

Whether you're doing everything in your business, or maybe you're not even getting to everything because there's too much to do, you're ready to hire a VA when you can teach them to do something for you.

The best thing to outsource is something that's taking up your time and which someone else can do as well (or almost as well) as you can. Often this is social media marketing, generating leads, customer support, design, handling incoming inquiries, video editing, transcription, SEO, or any of dozens of other areas of business.

That's the exact reason you need to do it. If you don't, how are you ever going to have time???

Hiring a VA is the best way we know of to get some tasks off your plate and get some time back. For us, it's almost like buying time.

Really, it's not very different than having an employee in your office. Often, it's safer. A remote employee doesn't have physical access to your computer or your drawers. They only have access to what you explicitly give them access to.

Plus, the culture of the Philippines lends itself to more security. Generally, Filipinos don't want to steal from you. They're not interested in taking your data and selling it. They just want a job and to do good work for you so they can support their families.

Don't take risks you can't afford to lose on, but you'll figure out pretty quickly where you can trust someone.

The same thing as if you hired them locally. You bring them up to speed on what they'll be doing. You provide them training. You give them the access and credentials they need to start doing the work. You set expectations for the first task and for daily reporting. Then you start the process of working together.

It totally depends on you.

For communication we use Basecamp, email, and Slack.

For payments, we use EasyPay and Paypal.

It depends on how well constructed your post is. Generally job posts get dozens of responses. Often they'll get hundreds. With over 3,000,000 workers on OnlineJobs.ph, you'll almost always get some really talented people applying to your job.

You can do either one.

The Filipinos almost always prefer long-term (like full-time or part-time, salaried rather than hourly). But employers do whatever works for them.

Here at OnlineJobs.ph we almost always hire long-term. It just works better that way.

First you need to interview them. You can start the conversation with a worker either by contacting them via their profile, or by them applying to your job post.

After interviewing them, hiring is on your terms. Usually I just say "Ok, I'd like to hire you. Here's my offer and my terms of employment: ... When can you start?"

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Unless you're in Australia (most of Australia is in the same timezone as the Philippines) you'll find that your VA's work while you sleep. For us, it's awesome getting work done while we sleep. Usually you'll find that a couple hours of their work day will overlap with a couple hours of yours (either in the evening or the morning).

You can hire someone to work the night shift so they work on your time. Just be careful with this as night shifts are hard. It's a lot easier if the VA is already accustomed to it.