Top 3 Tips to Make Sure I Hire A Great VA - Practical Advice

Here are my top three tips for hiring a great virtual worker in the Philippines. Hey, my name is John Joyce and I'm going to give you my top three tips for how to find a great virtual worker in the Philippines. Now, obviously, there's more involved in finding a great person than just three things, but I'm going to give you three things that will put you on the right course to find a great worker. So tip number one is define the role. Tip number two is do your own interview. And tip number three is ask lots of questions. So let's go into this. Tip number one is define the role. So oftentimes I'll have people say to me, oh, I need someone who, who can work with this specific API and who can install this plugin. Like, well, that's not a thing that you, you don't hire for this, you don't hire for this specific API skill. That's not a good way to hire someone. Or I need someone who can write this kind of blog post, like, well, that's fine, but really the role here is a content writer, or the role here is a programmer, or the role here is a, is a graphic designer. The role isn't draw this specific thing or create this banner for my website. Right? So the first step is to define a role that you're going to hire someone for and then look for general skills that are, that are required for that role, but not specifically look for one specific skill maybe that you want really, really well in that, in that role, but someone who has that one skill and hopefully maybe two supporting skills is going to be the kind of person you're looking for. You're not looking for someone with 12 different skills because that's, that's not a role, that's a skill. And roles change over time. Whereas skills, you know, like a specific skill for this thing isn't necessarily what's best for the next time you have to do this project. So step number two is do your own interview. So oftentimes people will come and say, oh, I want more reviews from other people. Well, if, if there were more reviews, then we would have turnover. That would be the whole point of, that's why upwork is the way they are, is because they require turnover in everybody's business that uses them. And that's how they get reviews on workers. Because you hire someone, you get them to do a job, you pay them and you leave a review and they move on and they go work for someone else. That's not a good way to work as a small Business owner. You don't want turnover in your business. So the best way to find a great VA is to do your own interview, do your own weeding out, do your own recruiting, and not rely on what other people have said in doing that. Here's step number three. My tip number three is ask lots of questions. So oftentimes people will say like, I just need better portfolios from people. Like, you just want to look at their portfolios. Well, that's fine, but that goes back to step number one. Like you're looking at a specific skill or rather than defining a role. And while a portfolio is important, and don't get me wrong, I want to look at portfolios too. What you really need to do is talk to this person because you're not just hiring a skill or a role, you're hiring a personality. This is a human who's going to think and be a part of your business and communicate with you every day. And you need to talk to this person. You need to ask them lots of questions ahead of time because sometimes you're going to find a person like this person. Their, their salary that they're asking for is really low and their skills are really high. But I don't get along with them and that's terrible. Like you don't want to work with that person for the next six years. So in asking lots of questions, here's what I do when I get a job application from someone, I reply to them and I ask them two or three or four questions in an email and then I get the response back and then I'll ask them two or three or four more questions in an email. I'll repeat that process over and over and over again. Asking questions, asking questions, asking questions so that I can get a really good idea of what this person is like. Do they answer all my questions? Do they respond quickly? How's their English? Do they understand slang? Are there any red flags? Is there anything different from their profile? Asking lots and lots of questions is a really good way to interview someone and make sure they fit your role and your personality and your business settings, all of it. So top three tips are define a role, do your own interviewing, don't rely on someone else, and ask lots of questions. 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