Virtual Assistant Training Isn’t About Getting Ready for the Job
When you’re looking into virtual assistant training, one of the first things that you need to recognize is that you aren’t looking for training that will get you ready to provide administrative services. The reality is, when you’re looking into becoming a virtual assistant and you are getting ready to start a business, you shouldn’t need training on the basics of the job – you should already have the basics down thanks to previous work experience.
The reality is simple: when you are looking into virtual assistant training, you are going to be focused on learning to run your business effectively. In other words, when you are looking into virtual assistant training, what you should really be focusing on is finding training that will help you to launch your own business and develop a business plan; you should look into VA training that will help you to market services, to network and to know what it’s going to take to attract those clients who you really want to be able to work with.
The right VA training programs are going to be focused on helping you to reach your business goals rather than helping you to learn the job. Sure, with the right training you will also be able to learn more about time management and simplifying the business that you’re going into, however those tips are – at least in part – gravy. When you get the right virtual assistant training, you’ll find that you get the strong foundation that you need and the advice that you need to build well on that foundation.
In other words, virtual assistant training isn’t about getting ready for the job; VA training is all about getting you to the next level.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I agree 100%. Any virtual assistant who does not already have the requisite training probably will not make it as a VA. The experience necessary to be a great VA is not something you learn from a book or gain overnight. It is based on years of experience in an ordinary office setting. Building your business takes work. It will never happen unless you have enough experience to do what your client needs and the ability to do it as well OR BETTER than anyone he could hire for a full-time established office environment. If you have the experience necessary to do that, your business will thrive — it will take time. But anything worth having is worth working and waiting for.