3 Things To Keep In Mind Before Hiring An Offshore Virtual Assistant

Outsourcing allows you to have a highly skilled professional work for you without blowing up your cash flow. If you are someone who wants to jump into hiring someone outside your country, here are some tips to help you in getting started:

1. Define the tasks you want to accomplish and identify who you need to hire.

You can't have someone who does EVERYTHING. If you need someone to redesign your website and make it show up on the top page of Google search, you won't hire an administrative VA for it. You have to hire a web designer or a programmer. If you want someone to manage your social media, you can't have your cold caller take on that role.

To get the most out of your virtual assistant, it is very important that you assign the tasks that they are most comfortable with and are trained to do.

2. Never ask someone to do the work for you before offering them a job.

Woah, wait. You may be thinking - What if it doesn't work out for me and I already have the person hired?

Relax. Instead of giving the person "trial tasks" which most likely than not, he will not accept (because he is not getting paid), tell the person that his first two weeks or first month is a probationary period.

This way, you get to hire a person without risking having to get stuck to a person you can't work with.

3. Train the person you hire.

Although you've identified that the person you hired is an expert in his/her niche, you want to make sure that what your virtual assistant does is aligned with what you want for your business.

What's your business goal? What do you want to happen? What results do you need?

It may take some time working with your virtual assistant, correcting him/her, and giving him/her directions, but you'll be surprised how he/she can work on his/her own afterwards.

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