Virtual PA?

SJ_Jones

Has anyone joined any of the Virtual PA agencies?

Which are the best?

Is it suitable for one day a week? (plus weekends)

clairibel

On this site there is some info about virtual pa's, this lady was on the right stuff talking about work from home yonks ago


http://www.moneymagpie.com/article/666/virtual-assistant-secretarial-3/

febes

I am starting up a Research Business, and have dabbled with becoming a VA. Anyway, reading that article led me to Writers' research article which is just what I was looking for. So thanks

PasturesNew

When I work as a virtual PA I get about £15/hour. It's something people ask me to do for them though and not something I go out and actively seek. The work's out there, if you're good. You can build a business out of it if you're good. If you're not so good, then you will have to fight your way onto joinng up with an existing organisation to be accepted onto their lists ... and even I've been turned down by them for not meeting one or other of their criteria. The trouble with criteria is they set out to set a minimum standard, that can't always be met by people who are good ... because you don't tick their boxes on paper.

e.g. what if there was a box of "do you have ECDL?", I'd fail their criteria. On the other hand, I've taught secretarial studies, I've taught shorthand, I've taught typing ... and I've even taught ECDL through two large/prestigious organisations. But I never had/needed the ECDL myself. So I'd fail. I've done lots and lots of quite complex and varying medical transcription and admin work over the years, but I couldn't tick the box of "have you done 2 years' medical typing in the past 5 years?", instead I've done about 4 years of it over the past 20. But I type at 105wpm, I do shorthand at 180wpm, my audio typing speed is usually 30% faster than what the industry says is normal and my accuracy is 99.99% with bad audio tapes and complex words... but I can't tick their box.