Tag Archives: How to Hire a Virtual Assistant

What's My Guarantee?

Dear Gritty VA: I am interested in hiring a Virtual Assistant. My ideas are getting clearer, but I still haven’t completely thought through how it would work. I need to know that I can trust someone enough to give them access to my personal information and count on them to be reliable and competent enough [...]

A Dirty Little Secret

Lots of Virtual Assistant sites like to tout Virtual Assistance as the profession of "highly skilled" administrative professionals. Hmmm, that’s a pretty big claim to make. I’ve got news for ya… Not every Virtual Assistant is highly skilled. They’re supposed to be, and that is the expectation of professional Virtual Assistants who care about their [...]

Client's Guide to Virtual Assistants

One of the #1 complaints Virtual Assistants commonly commiserate with each other about are clients who think they are their employers. This leads to all kinds of problems in the business relationship because the expectations each has of the other aren’t aligned when this is the case. This can result in, for example, a business [...]

Best Way to Find a Virtual Assistant

There was a good conversation going the other day on one of the private attorney listservs I’m on. An attorney was relating that like most on that particular list, he was a solo with no employees and was finding himself spending an inordinate amount of time on administration and paralegal-type tasks. He was aware of [...]