Ep. 405: How to find the best OFS
24 Nov 2025 · 3 min
John Jonas argues there's no single best OFS. Hire the best available person right now with the right attitude and basic skills, then train them. Joven from OnlineJobs.ph became highly valuable through development, not because he was perfect at hire.
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Welcome to the secret sauce of outsourcing podcast that's dedicated to making you better at hiring OFS. This is episode 405, how to find the best ofs for your business. So I'm not typically one for clickbait, but that title of how to find the best ofs for your business is really clickbait, because there is no such thing. It's a trick question. People always ask me, how do I find the best ofs? How do I find the best VA? Well, I would typically respond with one VA away. I mean, 1vaoa.com. That's how I guide you through finding a great person for your business. I guarantee you find someone great every time. Now, what I didn't. What I don't say to people is I don't say how you find. I'll guide you through finding the best person, because the best person is a myth. The best person is the one who has the right attitude and the right skills and who's a available to work for you right now. Because if you waited a little bit longer, you might find someone who's more talented. You might. If you find. If you waited a little bit longer, you might find someone who is less expensive and the same talent. If you wait a little bit longer, there might be someone who comes available who's a better personality fit. But all of that waiting isn't really what you want, and that's worse. And so you're not finding the best. The best person is the best available person. Because the reality is that the best person is probably already employed with someone else and they're not available for you, they're not looking for work. You're not going to find them. And what matters is right now and who's available right now. So the best available person right now can improve with training and feedback and good management. The best available available ofs is probably super talented at what you want them to do. And that best available ofs is probably gonna change your business. So when people ask me, how do I find the best ofs? Well, you don't. You find the best available person, the best person that you can find. The best person who will respond to you or who applies to your job or who you contact these people, you pick the best of those, and that's great. And I teach you exactly how to do that@1vaoa.com. It's very easy, it's very simple. It should be super fast. And once you know how to do it, you'll do it over and over again throughout your life as you hire more and you build yourself a really great team of people in the Philippines who can fulfill on whatever it is you need done because they're all super talented and then they're all the best. I'll give you an example out of this. Joven who runs onlinejobs PH was never the best at anything. He wasn't the best person when I hired him. I at least he wasn't talented at all and so he wasn't the best, but he was the only for me at the time, it was the only option I had and it turned out he was really amazing at all kinds of stuff. I just had to teach him how to do it. He's not the best manager of onlinejobs ph I'm sure someone will be better. I'm better. But he's available and he does a really good job of it and I have all kinds of people like that on my team who are the best because they're available and you're gonna find these people the same way that I find them at onlinejobs Ph Sa.
