In this video, I am going to show you how to get a virtual assistant from Onlinejobs.ph. About two years ago, I hired a virtual assistant (VA) from Onlinejobs.ph but she recently had to quit. She said it had to do with some internet trouble. I am not exactly sure exactly what happened but I know I had to find a second VA. So, two years with the same employee is pretty good. I am pretty happy with it and I used Onlinejobs.ph back then so I am going to go back to them and try to use it again. I am going to document this entire process so you guys can see exactly what I am doing to get a VA from start to finish. In addition to that, I have a link down below in the Show More and there should be a link up here in the corner to Onlinejobs.ph. That is my affiliate link and I make a small bit of commission. If you use it, I will help you – I will give you a quick one on one session helping you find your own virtual assistant. But, I am going to document the entire process so this should be pretty easy. ­­­

So, let’s get started. As you can see, I did have an account about two years ago. If you do not have an account, you will have to sign up for one now. You can sign up for free, but ultimately you will want to pay the $50 per month for an ongoing account. You will only need it for one month. The cool thing about it is 100% satisfaction guaranteed or you will get your money back. So, originally when I signed up for this, I was planning on saying I was not satisfied and getting my money back. But, I was really happy with my VA so I thought it would be kind of mean to say I want my $50 back after I used the service to get a VA.
Since I already have my account, the first thing that I am going to do is sign up. So, I will click the Get Started button. I am going to enter my Payment Method here so I am not going to show this part of it. All right, I have created the actual account.
The next thing I am going to do is post a job. I do not have something off the top of my head exactly so we will kind of work together on this really quickly and come up with a Job Title and a Job Description. I am probably going to come up with something better after I type this out. But, you know what, let’s just get started. I have 30 days so if I post a job and within the first week it does not go as well as I want, I can go in and change it up. So, I am going to say something like “General Virtual Assistant.” That is a really bad title but, I will come back to that. I am going to pause this actually while I brainstorm and come up with a job description. So, I will see you in a second.
In the meantime, I actually found my old job posting from two years ago. I put the salary at $250 to 350 and said “negotiable.” I am going to say the same thing over here. Let’s say 275, and I will put “negotiable.” Okay. Let’s look what I said last time. There are a lot of things that I would change. So, Job Title: “Virtual Assistant with good English writing skills, and someone who is a quick learner and hard worker.” Job Description: “You will be doing a variety of tasks almost all of which I will create tutorials for you.” That is still very true. “Some things I have in mind for the immediate future are: Collecting emails off websites. Data entry (change the stuff on our website that is very easy). Posting blog posts to our WordPress blog ( I’ll show you how to do this, also very easy). Easy Social Media Tasks. Sending and responding to emails.” Yeah, I am just going to take a lot of the same things from before. Them, I am going to say, “Creating basic videos using Premiere Pro. Some Light Photoshop work.” Then for both of these two, just to make it clear. “I will create tutorials on how to do this.” The truth is I can teach them how to do this. The work I need done is not that complicated. I am copying ‘Skills Required: English speaking, writing. Marketing and Sales, Social Media Marketing. Customer Service and Admin Support, Customer Support.” So that is pretty basic. Then for “Require ID Proof Greater Than, 50.” That is just something that they put in there.
So under What Skills Are Required? Office & Admin (Virtual Assistant), English, Writing, Marketing & Sales, Advertising, Web Development.” Oh, I was supposed to click this. I see. “Under Office & Admin Virtual Assistant): Admin Assistant, Data Entry. English: Speaking, Writing.” I do not really need a web content letter. I do not think I really need to actually put these skills in the Job Description. Back to the list of skills under Graphics & Multimedia: Graphics Editing, Video Editing. I do not really need these things under Finance & Management. I can teach them to do the book keeping stuff. Customer Service & Admin Support: Email Support. I am going to say email support but I probably will not have them do that. And I am going to say Social Media Moderation.
Email Address: Travisbailar@gmail.com. I am going to keep – This is my work address. So, if you want to email me, do not use that one.
Okay. This is pretty good. I think this is will be good enough.
Like I said, this may be something I will change in the future, but this is a good start. So, let’s go ahead and post the job. ¬If you want a copy of this, I will save a copy in my ecommerce success pack (Online Store Success Pack). So, if you have not signed up for that, definitely click up here to sign up for that.
All right, so, at this point, the job is logged. I guess I could read some of these.
I am going to go to my messages and these messages are probably like two years old. Yeah, see this one is from 2014 back when I hired the other VA. So, I am going to go through a pile of these and delete them. So, I deleted all of the messages except for the messages from the VA I originally hired. I just want to go through these real quick. This is the person I hired a little over two years ago. She did really great for me. She was towards the end having internet connection problems and I think there were some other things going on. But, the first year or so was just amazing. To be honest, towards the end I think part of the problem was I did a bad job managing. So, I take the blame for that.
So, let’s look at some of these. Once again, these are not polished, they are not perfect. The first message she sent me said, “I am a fresh grad looking for a job.” Blah, blah, blah. It was a fine message and her profile seemed good. We had a little conversation about Skype Calls. The biggest thing for me was the Skype Call. I did not want to waste too much time emailing back and forth. This time around I might do a little bit just to kind of vet them. Then she said she did not have a headset yet, but she was going to go get one.
So here is her profile (skimming through profile), skill summary. She has done some programming as well. So that is it.
At this point, I am actually going to try to search for some online people – oh, Search Resumes. I am going to “Narrow Results By: Search Keyword Admin.” So, for salary – I am going to go online and do the math. So that is about $275 a month which is pretty good. That is what I originally hired my first VA for. I will probably have to go for more than that this time around. So looking on line the going rate is about 12,750 Philippine Pesos. So, doing the math here, So my guess is between 12,000 and 18,000. So, I am going to use those figures in the Monthly Salary Between (PHP) space. “Employment Type: Full Time. ID Proof Score Greater than 50 is probably good. Last Active Definitely ‘a week or less.’” I am going to check the with picture line and I am going to say with Government ID as well. That is a lot of stuff I can do. Then I am going to go through and click the number of stars indicating their proficiency that I would like in each skill category. So, 98 people came up which is pretty good.
At this point, I can start going through and start looking at profiles one by one and start sending them emails. I will pause this and look at some of this stuff and get back to you.
So, currently I am just going through and opening up everyone that might seem interesting. I can see all these tags on the different people. I am doing this real quick. I might come back and add some more people. In my opinion, you definitely want people who have pictures in their profile. If they do not have a profile picture, I would say to close them. Now, that I have a bunch of them, let’s see if there are any more people down here. It looks like I forgot to indicate full time. Well, whatever, I will just look at their profile for right now. This one wants 20 hours. This one wants 40 hours. This one only wants 20. Okay, let’s start narrowing it down.
At this point, I could just wait for people to send me messages. But, I want to be as proactive about this as possible. So, I am going to go through the profiles. This one shows Experience “6 months as a Data encoder, 6 months as English Tutor, 2 yrs and 5 months as Teller/Customer Service Rep . . .” Probably not my ideal person but I might send her an email as well. Earl Karlo Mationg – This one looks like a good fit. So, I am just going to send out a message. I wish I had saved the messages I had before because then I would have something. Subject I might say – I am going to look under Or Use Email Template and choose I would like to hire you. That brought up an email that is already set up. So, I will copy and paste this one as well. If you sign up for my ecommerce success pack, it will be in there totally for free. So, I am going to send this out. One of the cool things about Onlinejobs.ph is they allow you to create your own templates. I created these two years ago and I totally forgot about them, but I guess they are still there. So, what I am going to do is I am going to go through and email all of these people who can work up to 40 hours and it should not take too long. I will let you watch that. Let’s see. “40 hours a week. Contact, Select, “I would like to hire you” boom and it is done. The truth is even if they do not seem perfect to me, I will still take the time to Skype them. At this point, I do not want to take the time to read through everyone’s profile. That just does not make sense. These people seem like they would be a good fit, so let’s just contact them and if they – of the people that do apply, I can go through those and say, “Oh, actually, this person is a good fit or this person is not a good fit” and maybe some people will surprise me. So, my process that I like to do is send them this email and then if they respond, I try to Skype call with them and if they do not respond, well, then, whatever. Basically, send them an email. If they respond, then Skype call as soon as possible. That is really the binary test for me. Are they willing to Skype. If not, they are not.
So, at this point, I am going to send the rest of these people a message. I will follow up and then the next segment will be when I start interacting with people and start looking at different candidates.