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Business Strategy: Hiring an Excellent Virtual Assistant

One of the best decisions you’ll probably ever make as a business owner is hiring a Virtual Assistant. If you’re a first-time business owner and manager, they can be the perfect starting point in learning how to train and manage people – and their services also cost less than what you’d normally pay on onshore or office-based employees. If you’re finally getting started into looking for one, below are some of the strategies you can apply in finding the perfect fit for your company.

1. Determine Skill Tasks and Create Skill Requirements

Before hiring a VA, it is best to first determine the tasks you need help with. This will help you create a list of qualifications that you are looking for in a candidate. This will also shorten the search process as you’ll be able to filter those who have relevant skills as per the job description, from the ones that don’t.

2. Set Employees Standards and Expectations

A time-consuming task that business owners often handle on their own, is training their employees. With VA’s you can rest easy, as most are freelancers, and are constantly training and self-improving. However, this doesn’t mean you have to skip the training, it’s still better than you do- but the good thing about it is that, since they are already well-experienced with the tasks you are letting them handle, lesser time would be needed in preparing them for it.

You get to do more with little time when you hire Virtual Assistants. You get work-life balance and you don’t lose your mind. Remember that your sanity is important in the success of your business. Stay sane and start hiring Virtual Assistants!

Kenn Collier Sr., CEO of iHR Buddy Virtual Staffing Solutions

Choose Between Freelance or Agency-Based

There are quite a few differences between hiring a VA that is agency-based, from freelance. Such are cost and availability.

Cost

Office- or agency-based Virtual Assistants is quite pricier than freelance as there are other fees incurred in hiring one from VA companies- like office space, equipment, and employee benefits. Whereas with freelance, everything is included with how they priced their services.

Availability

A VA’s availability is always determined by what you have required: whether they work on weekends, several hours of the week, or if they are on-call. However, should there be an emergency and your freelance VA cannot work for you on a certain day, there may not be a replacement for them to work those hours. Whereas with the agency based, there will always be one they can assign to take over.

Begin with a Trial or Probation Period

Even though the interview goes well, it is best to have a paid trial run first or to put them on probation, so that they may be able to prove themselves worthy of working in your company. This way, if they performed below your expectations, letting them go wouldn’t be as awkward.

Once you hire a VA, you’ll be surprised by how much your life improves – not just at work, but as well as home!

iHR Buddy can add leverage to your business by helping you manage the tasks that are taking up too much of your time by providing you quality first class Virtual Assistant service. Start outsourcing with us today!