John Jonas breaks down what Filipino virtual assistants can actually do, from basic admin work to programming, design, and legal tasks. The key: higher-level thinking work requires building real trust first. He points to OnlineJobs.ph and his recruiting process at 1vaaway.com.
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So what kind of vas can you hire in the Philippines? One of the questions I get asked most often is what kind of vas can you hire? I mean, can they only do brain dead work or can you find some thought workers? And so what I usually say is I have 26 people in the Philippines that work for me full time and they do everything from design work to programming to admin work, to customer support and HR work, or front end web development or data analyst or server management. All everything across the spectrum. If it can be done online or on a computer or on a phone, you can hire a VA in the Philippines to do it for you. And it's not just about like getting brain dead work done. You can find people to do really good thinking work for you. It's just a matter of you got to get them to trust you before they're willing to do thinking work. Now this isn't always the case, but in the Philippines it's very, very often the case. So when you start to hire someone, the first thought is how do I get this person to trust me? And then once they trust you, they'll go above and beyond what you ask them to do so they can do good work. So other examples of things that you can hire are like, I know attorneys hiring attorneys in the Philippines or Realtors hiring Realtors in the Philippines, or people hiring e commerce experts or Amazon experts, or I know someone who hired an investment banking analyst out of the Philippines. I've seen people hire telemarketers or sales calls or people to do lead generation. Anything that you can do on your computer, you can hire someone in the Philippines to do for you. My name is John Jonas and I created OnlineJobs ph to help you better recruit people in the Philippines. I made my full recruiting process available@1vaaway.com so that you know exactly what to do every step of the way to make sure that you hire a great worker every time.
