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Need more time? Hire a virtual assistant today!
If you are like me you will have a range of tasks that you need to get done every day. Often they are repetitive and time-consuming. You’re probably thinking, “I could save so much time if I did not have to do these things”. The revelation to me was in realizing that there is a […]
Hidden costs of staffing – Telecommuting: Hiring American remote workers vs. hiring Filipino remote workers
Did you know you need Workers Compensation for your remote staff working in the USA? Allowing employees to work from home has definite advantages for the employer. One that stands out is cutting down on office space expenses. However, there are liabilities to consider, like injuries on the job and damage to equipment. In the […]
Telephone Salespeople Representative Virtual Assistant Staffing Agency “position filled”
We need telephone salespeople! Working for the Smart VA Staffing Agency, you’ll be saving your clients money by educating small business owners and hiring managers of the benefits of hiring offshore Filipino virtual assistants instead of costly local American hires. Although you are selling them something, their staffing costs will drop dramatically, as much as […]
Performance Reviews – are they a waste of time?
Creating a decent performance review process can be a challenge to any small business owner. Creating one that both staff and managers see as more than just an administrative overhead and where both can get value out of it, can be an even bigger challenge! Why Reinvent the Wheel? At the Smart VA Staffing Agency, […]
What Qualifications Do Filipino Virtual Assistants Workers Have?
When it comes to qualifications, we talk about those as distinct from experience, skills, and training. For experience, skills and training see: What Skills Can Your Staffing Agency Provide Through Offshore Virtual Assistant Workers? Here, we try to provide some insight into the common educational qualifications we can usually recruit for Filipino workers. High School […]
Am I a Biased Manager in the Workplace? And Does That Put Me at Risk?
I’m not biased! At least I didn’t think I was, until recently.. We all carry bias baggage with us, and as soon as we set foot in our workplace it follows us in like a creepy shadow. Unwittingly, we carry deeply subconscious attitudes towards gender, race, age, disability, and religion. You may not think of […]
Which Virtual Assistant Skills Sets Cost the Most and or Least and What Can We Do to Reduce the Costs Overall?
When you are hiring people, you cannot necessarily correlate a specific skill with an explicit cost. For example, a doctor who treats children, “pediatrician,” does not necessarily earn a higher salary than a childbirth specialist, “obstetrician.” There are many other factors that dictate salary, and you certainly do not hire a doctor and associate a […]
What Skills Can Your Staffing Agency Provide Through Offshore Virtual Assistant Workers?
You will probably be surprised at the extensive range of skills that we can find for you. Just because we are providing people who are based in the Philippines does not mean their skills and education will be poor. Quite the opposite. Skills, Work Experience, and Educational Levels A lot of schools in the Philippines […]
How Reliable are Filipino Virtual Assistants, who are working from home in the Philippines?
In our experience, they are extremely reliable. Having said that, we need to qualify our answer by defining specifically what we mean by ‘offshore workers’. As a founding business and as a staffing agency, we exclusively source and provide Filipino full-time staff who work from home and are based in the Philippines. Over the years […]
Does Our Staffing Agency Make It Harder for Americans in Orange County to Get a Job or Earn a Decent Wage?
Here we are, a staffing agency, dedicated to providing workers from the Philippines to small businesses in Orange County, California. A lot of the arguments for doing this are based on how much less expensive it is to hire Filipino workers compared to American workers. Here you are, considering hiring a Filipino instead of a […]
Is There a Way to Solve the 1099 Contractor vs. W2 Employee Status Problems Without the Legal Risks?
If you are a small business owner in California, you cannot possibly have missed the recent changes in the law regarding retaining independent contractors on staff. Are you trying to navigate your way through the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision – namely the new A.B.C. legal test for 1099 Independent Contractor vs. W2 Employee status? […]
What Mistakes Do People Make When Hiring Filipino Virtual Assistants?
At the Smart VA Staffing Agency, we have enjoyed great success hiring, managing, and providing Filipino virtual assistants (FVAs) to our clients. We have been doing this in earnest since 2011. Some of our staff have been with us for the whole seven years and still add a lot of value to our businesses. Philippines […]
How Quickly Can I Hire A Virtual Assistant?
Usually, we are able to find a suitable virtual assistant for most clients within 14 days. Sometimes we are even able to find a perfect person for a client in 5 days. It really all depends. Factors that can affect how long it takes to hire an appropriate virtual assistant include: How complicated or rare […]
Should I Hire Part-Time or Full-Time Virtual Assistants?
Economics First, the most important thing to understand is the economics of this question. If you hire a part-time worker in California, you will probably be paying them anywhere from $15.00 to $25.00 an hour. If your part-timer is working 30 hours a week at $15.00 an hour, that will cost you about $2,000 a […]
Meet Kirt, Specialist Article Writer for a Legal Office
Kirt has been an article writer for the Smart VA Staffing Agency for a long time, over 7 years now. He writes professionally for legal offices covering highly topical subjects such as incorporation, professional corporations for doctors and nurses as well as 1099 contractor and W2 employee issues. He has also written content for specialist […]
Meet Lois, Corporation & LLC Legal Assistant
Lois joined the Smart VA Staffing Agency team in October of 2017 and now works as a legal assistant for the Law Offices of Gale & Vallance, Incorporation Attorney service a local business attorney based in Orange, California. Lois specializes in corporations and limited liability companies. Lois acts as an additional liaison between the clients […]
Are there any tax ramifications when hiring an offshore Filipino virtual assistant?
There are no tax ramifications when hiring offshore staff as they are just that: offshore. The taxes paid for U.S. employees are based on the current U.S. laws and assume that those employees are domiciled in the U.S. As your Filipino virtual assistant is domiciled in the Philippines, they are subject to Philippine law, therefore […]
Will the virtual assistant I choose, work for me exclusively?
When you hire a full-time virtual assistant through the “Smart VA Staffing Agency” they will be working for you in exactly that way. Full-time. Even though technically they are employed by the Smart VA SAOC, they will be assigned exclusively and full-time to your company. You should treat them as your employee. Provide training, performance […]
Administrative Assistant – Customer Service – Insurance Office “position filled”
We need a full-time Filipino administrative assistant / personal lines specialist for an insurance office The primary task for this position is to help retain existing clients by re-quoting the existing insurance with one of our client’s many carriers (no insurance office experience required, full training will be given). Main tasks include making changes to […]
Article Writer – Content Marketing – Video Editor “position filled”
We are looking for a great Filipino article writer who can also edit videos Projects will be provided as a general brief, “article needed about ‘xxx’ subject”. You will need to be good at research and able to write excellent articles in the 750 – 1,500 word range. Sometimes work will come in the form […]