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Part IV: Hiring, Training, and Managing Your Virtual Assistants How to Find Your First Virtual Assistant For simplicity, I’ll relate most of this chapter to hiring virtual assistants from the Philippines because that’s where I’ve had the most experience and the best results. Please understand that the principles of what I tell you will be similar to hiring in other countries. I’ll leave it to you to make the necessary adjustments for the purposes of your hiring needs. The first thing I do when I hire a new assistant is to explain what the job entails. Secondly, I clearly state all the benefits of completing the job. One important benefit for the assistant is that I will always give them the day off whenever there is a national holiday in their country. If they choose to work on those days, we will pay them extra for their time. In this regard, they know we will respect the dates that are most important to them, such as June 12, which is the Filipino equivalent to the Fourth of July. Since I rarely have to pay an overseas assistant even half as much as I would pay an American assistant for the same work, I try my best to keep them happy, hardworking, and committed to my company. Imagine having someone who works for you all day, and you only have to pay them $500 dollars a month. You could even get people to work for $300 or $350 dollars a month. When you choose to pay higher than this, you tend to get better employees. For example, you can employ an incredibly capable accountant from the Philippines for only $500 a month, but if you are willing to pay $800 or more, you will get the best of the best working for you. My own standard price is $500, and I no longer offer anything below that benchmark. Paying your workers $500 a month means that you pay them $25 for every working day. For workers in the Philippines, that’s really good money. When you give them benefits, such as all public holidays off plus some vacation pay, you can expect them to stay loyal and hardworking all year round. Another thing that I put in my advertisements is a test task. Setting a test task is probably the best way to screen people quickly, especially when you have plenty of applications to go through.