Are you Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant? 3 Questions to Ask Yourself First.
You’re here because you’ve been considering hiring a virtual assistant for your business, but you aren’t quite sure where to begin. Hiring support is a BIG step and before you start your search, there are a few questions you should be asking yourself first!
NT Virtual Co. was started with a passion for supporting small, and we want to share what we’ve learned over the years from discovery calls and our current clients.
Keep reading to see a few of the questions you should be asking yourself first.
What tasks or areas of your business will your assistant be supporting with?
Write out everything that you currently don’t have time for, or would like your assistant to support with. This can also be future projects that have been on the back burner! It is very important to have an understanding of these tasks before hiring your assistant.
Do you have Standard Operating Procedures in Place?
Trust me, these will make your life a whole lot easier! Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs are procedures specific to your business that describe the activities necessary to complete tasks per your standards. This can even be a simple Google Doc and Loom tutorials. Your assistant will seriously thank you for having these in place!
Do you have time to on-board your assistant & assign tasks?
In the first month, understand that you will need to dedicate time to ensure your assistant is properly onboarded. This means creating onboarding documents, Loom training tutorials, doing live training, etc. If the onboarding process is done well, and you have a good assistant, you will find that you will rarely have to manage them going forward.
Virtual assistants are typically task-based, so you will have to spend time delegating tasks to ensure all your hours for the month are used up. Alternatively, you can have your assistant oversee certain parts of your business in which case you will find that you will only have to assign extra tasks as needed and they will just know what their daily responsibilities are.
Key Takeaways
Ensuring thorough preparation before hiring a virtual assistant is crucial. Since it represents an investment, it's essential that you're fully prepared to take on this responsibility. What happens if you hire a VA without all the prep beforehand? Likely, after your first month or two, you’ll realize that you don’t have enough tasks to fill the hours you’ve agreed upon with your assistant. Or, you realize that you don’t have enough income coming in to justify paying for an assistant after all.
To help you realize these things before hiring someone, we’ve created a guide to help you conclude whether you’re ready to hire a virtual assistant or not and these 3 questions are just a sneak peek of what we’ve included!
Get your free guide- Are you Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant? 10 Questions to Ask Yourself First and good luck with your search to find the perfect virtual assistant for your biz!
