| er you are already tired of being an overworked | | | | Some other duties of a virtual assistant is taking |
| office employee or one who simply wants to | | | | care of the correspondences of the office, |
| work within the comforts of your home, being a | | | | making transcriptions, arranging travel plans, and |
| virtual assistant can be the right job for you. | | | | taking care of the accounting and billing. Online |
| Virtual assistants are like secretaries except that | | | | assistants also edit letters and newsletters of the |
| the person do and deliver all his work with the | | | | company and are also in-charge with their |
| help of the internet, fax machine, or the | | | | distributions. Other various responsibilities are |
| telephone. These virtual secretaries are hired to | | | | handling and monitoring clients, preparing |
| take care of some extra work which normal | | | | PowerPoint presentations, and other types of |
| employees cannot do during stressful working | | | | materials for presentations, and collating proposals |
| days. This is the kind of online job where it | | | | of the company. |
| continuously grows because of the advantages it | | | | Virtual assistants can expect to get paid $20 to |
| brings. | | | | $45 per hour depending on the kind of service |
| The first advantage about this job is that it gives | | | | they provide. It is already up to the business |
| the employers more freedom to focus on other | | | | companies if they want to pay virtual assistants |
| important tasks because some of the | | | | on monthly basis or if they can simply pay hourly |
| administrative jobs which they do not have time | | | | blocks of service. Hourly payment is considered |
| to do are being taken cared of by online | | | | more convenient on the part of the virtual |
| assistants. Thus, an entrepreneur can have more | | | | assistant because he or she can have more |
| time planning and looking for new opportunities | | | | opportunities to work for more than one |
| which can help improve his businesses. The next | | | | employer. Online assistants can also have some |
| advantage of having a virtual assistant is that | | | | specializations to help them demand higher |
| businessmen pay less when they use online | | | | payments from their employers. Some examples |
| assistants because actual secretaries have regular | | | | of specializations are medical transcribing, |
| salaries, have insurance and need to have salary | | | | translation of bilingual materials, and developing and |
| raise from time to time. | | | | maintaining web sites. If this is the case, a virtual |
| However, being a virtual office assistant is not an | | | | assistant can get paid as much as $100 per hour |
| easy work. They are expected to work on | | | | for his service. |
| untraditional hours like holidays and weekends. | | | | There is the growing needs now of online |
| Sometimes they also need to have good mastery | | | | assistants who have specializations with other field |
| with secretarial jobs and on other administrative | | | | or skills especially if the person has the skills about |
| tasks. Basically, the primary responsibility of online | | | | computer programming and software handling. |
| assistant is to manage all the customers’ | | | | Aside from doing administrative jobs, they can |
| spreadsheets, contacts, and letters of the | | | | help the company’s website well managed |
| company. They are also responsible in taking care | | | | and improve. These kind of online assistants are |
| of the company’s calendar and meeting | | | | the ones who are having bigger payments. |
| schedule of the bosses. | | | | |