Virtually Your Admin
March 5, 2009 by Darlene McDaniel
Filed under Jobs
Virtual Assistants are here to stay! If you are looking for a career change, a business opportunity, and you have strong administrative skills you may want to consider becoming a Virtual Assistant. According to AssistU, Virtual Assistants are micro business owners who provide administrative and personal support while working in a long-term collaborative relationship with a handful of clients.
Using phone, fax, email and well as other emerging technologies. Virtual Assistant support their client’s need without ever stepping into the client’s office.
Some possible responsibilities of a Virtual Assistant may include:
- Prepare correspondence, reports, and materials for publications and presentations
- Coordinate travel itinerary and accommodations
- Maintain client’s calendar
- Prepare and maintain client expense report
- Coordinate meetings and conferences
- Create, transcribe, and distribute meeting agendas and minutes
- Answer email inquiries
- Maintain hard copy and electronic filing system
- Set up pickup and delivery of package
- Research, price, and purchase business equipment
- Project management
- Other duties assigned
What makes a person a VA isn’t that the services can be performed at a distance, according to AssistU, but rather that the services are in administrative in scale and scope, with a desire to support the client across the board.
Virtually Your Admin is a name I came up with about a year ago when I was doing some administrative work for friends who needed administrative support. As a part of my daily posts, I will be writing about potential career options you may want to consider pursuing. Virtual administrative work may not be your cup of tea, however I will do my best to share career options available in the current market. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to scroll down and share career options you may want to know more about.
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