How to Become a Virtual Assistant


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It is always a dream job for most of the people to work from home. No bustling thru the traffic or long drive, no irritating co-worker, you can have your snack whenever you want and most of all, you can have your work travel with you, you’re truly the master of your clock. It is, in fact, a privilege to work from home.

The workforce of Virtual Assistant nowadays is becoming more and more increasing in fact, the Technavio’s analyst forecast that the global virtual assistant is due to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11.60% by the time of 2018-2021. And by 2020, Intuit has predicted that 40% of the workforce will be dominated by a virtual assistant in the US alone. Not only that, the rising of virtual assistant made it really official to be part of people workforce and now laws and bills are being made to make them as legitimate as the same workforce that does work on offices, fields, etc.
It is true that being a virtual assistant is not a secret any more and more and more people are now trying to get into the trend. So being a virtual assistant is not as easy as picking up cherry in the field, to be honest, as of now, finding clients or being a part of a Virtual Assistant Company is twice as hard as applying compared to the office and finding the client is almost like finding a needle in the haystack. To be able to get into the position and be recognized as a competitive virtual assistant, you must organize yourself and think of a game plan to consider, luckily for you aspiring VA’s out there, I have a compiled a simple list that you have to do to be a Virtual Assistant.

1.    Know your skill 

 A common misconception that most people believe is that when you are coined as a “Virtual Assistant” you just replaced the term of being a “Personal Assistant” where you’re entitled as a CEO or some bosses’ assistant that take care of their schedule, call a client and do some paperwork and that you’re just doing it thru cloud. Little did most of the people know, that is just a part of Virtual Assistant. Being a Virtual Assistant is a flexible job, you should be knowledgeable in any aspect of doing things on the computer. From Web developing, photo editing, social media management, cold call marketing you name it. You must be able to know what your skills are and be ready to market the skills that you have.

2.    Have a “Presentable” CV 

To be able to rise in the competition, you must be able to represent yourself pretty well. Employers and clients are going to depend on what is on your CV and that CV should be able to get their attention and must be able to contain the necessary skill to jump in. You can learn to make CV by searching thru google and find out what skill you should list to shine out.

3.    Attend Virtual Assistant Related Seminars

 The good thing about the Virtual Assistant community is that they tend to pay forward other aspiring virtual assistants by conducting some free online seminars. By attending these seminars, you’ll be able to know and learn more about what necessary skills you should learn so that you can be more competitive when applying for the work. You can also search from some paid Virtual Assistant seminars by some company so that you can claim certificate and that should be a cornerstone for clients to hire you.

4.    Be Truthful About Your Skills 

If you’re just new at Virtual Assistant and you want to try your luck about for what you have in your skill set, always be honest on what you know. For example, if you only know data mining or gathering information, don’t try to apply on your CV or your work experience that you also know Web Developing, Social Media Management or whatsoever. It is because, if you get hired and you just faked those skills that have been written on your CV, it will only get you in trouble and it will only reflect you thus affecting your work status and finding client might get you a hard time.

5.    Look for Proper Platform to Join 

There are many platforms that you can join to showcase your skills as a Virtual Assistant if you ever know to yourself that you’re ready to be one. You can visit Upwork, Freelancer, Fiverr and Outsourcely and make an account there and try to reach out people who are in need of a Virtual Assistant but do remember this, just apply to the job that you know if you’re just on entry level. It’s okay that the salary at first is average, it will grow over time as you’ll learn new experience on the field to prove that you’re a legitimate virtual assistant.


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