Hiring the Right Virtual Assistant for your business

Ray Joderson
3 min readApr 25, 2018

Virtual assistants have become a globally trending phenomenon in the current market and job industry. Having a virtual assistant is paramount for any business to flourish as they ease the workload existing at the workplace. A virtual assistant allows you to go through your creative process as they handle the minor detailing of your business. They are efficient and potent in dealing with the entire extra workload at your business. Virtual assistants come in highly recommended for startups due to the bulkiness of tasks. They are skilled in book-keeping, data entry, scheduling meetings, digital marketing, research and other administrative functions mandatory to an SME.

Looking for a virtual assistant might be cumbersome if you don’t know the function he or she is to perform. Before you hire an assistant, you need to know the role they are going to play in your enterprise; clearly define their position so as to achieve maximum benefit and consequently better results. Given that there is a wide array of virtual assistants up for hire, serves to illustrate the diversity of the workload and the potential of any type of business.

Compared to hiring an employee who’ll be present in the day-to-day operational activities, a virtual assistant is an independent craftsman that will cost relatively less cutting the businesses expenses by a substantial margin. The cost of hiring an employee will wear down on your net gains as you will have to cover the allowances, insurance money and a host of other deductibles. Coupled with other costs such as training staff expenses, food expenses, travel and holiday expenses, it is safe to conclude that relatively hiring a virtual assistant would turn a penny to a pound for a business. Aside from monetary issues, a virtual assistant will give you the room you need to work on your enterprise, unlike an employee who may disrupt you in your daily activities at the office.

Working with a virtual assistant tends to be simpler, to say the least. This is owed to the fact that they require little to no supervision thus ensuring high standards of work morale and in the long run productivity is achieved. Virtual assistants, also known as VA’s, get remunerated only upon the completion of their tasks, jumping the hurdle of laziness only to combat it with skilled labor in a given field. You can issue out tasks to be undertaken on a daily basis or monthly with a set timeline to be accomplished plus the targets to be achieved. A virtual assistant will easily provide you with the relevant job assignment completed without qualms.

Hiring an assistant can be a daunting task especially if you are starting an enterprise. Before you acquire any new help for your venture, establish whether you require an in-office assistant or a virtual one. Most successful businesses endorse the latter.

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