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What is a Virtual Assistant?
Virtual Assistant (or VA) is a professional service provider who specializes in providing remote administrative office support services as an independent contractor.
Virtual Assistants work from their own offices and utilize today's technology to deliver their services and communicate with clients.
A Virtual Assistant's support is foundationally intended to be administrative, secretarial and clerical in nature. However, many Virtual Assistants offer additional specialties that fall under creative and technical services.
Virtual Assistants come from a variety of business backgrounds, but the single-most important qualification to become a Virtual Assistant is at least five (5) years extensive administrative experience earned in the real (non-virtual) business world working in upper level capacities such as administrative assistant, executive assistant, secretary, legal assistant, real estate assistant, office manager, etc.
From this level of experience, a VA is expected to possess the superior skill sets, training and business knowledge which are the hallmark of a truly qualified Virtual Assistant.
With today's technological advances, ability to conference virtually, shared (yet restricted) communication via computers, accurate time keeping, all come together to make partnering simple and enjoyable.
If you can email, fax, and have a telephone, a Virtual Assistant will help you to succeed, cost effectively.
According to Salary.com, an employee costs nearly two to three times their salary depending on your benefit package and loss in productivity, such as vacations, sick leave, paid holidays, family issues, taxes, insurance, profit sharing, bonuses, lunch, break time, and office overhead.
Regular staff are rarely 100% productive. Idle time between assignments, personal matters, employer's inability to generate work due to meetings, clients, distractions, all combine together to drastically decrease productivity time.
Virtual Assistants only charge for the time you need them and are able to focus on your project completing it in half the time it would take the full time employee.