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What is a Virtual Assistant?
Virtual Assistants (typically known as VA’s) are entrepreneurs who
provide professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance
to clients from a home office. They usually work for other small businesses
and consultancy groups. It is estimated that there are as few as 5,000-8,000 or
as many as 35,000 Virtual Assistants worldwide; the profession is growing in
centralized economies with remote staffing practices.
Common modes of communication and data delivery include the Internet, e-mail
and phone call conferences, online work spaces, and fax machine. Professionals
in this business work on a contractual basis and a long-lasting cooperation is
standard. Typically 5 years of administrative experience in an office is
expected at such positions as executive assistant, office manager/supervisor,
secretary, legal assistant, paralegal, legal secretary, real estate assistant,
medical assistant, transcribing, bookkeeping, database management, etc.
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