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What is a virtual assistant?

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Question added by Nisreen Ahmad , dfgdhj , twst
Date Posted: 2015/06/16
saeed Ali
by saeed Ali , DEPUTY MANAGER IT INFRASTRUCTURE, OPERATIONS & OIC_ IT DEPARTMENT. , Besway Cement Limited

  1. virtual assistant is a self-employed administrative or personalassistant who works remotely (usually at home) for various clients. When most people hear "virtual assistant," they assume it's a secretary who works from home.

Muhammad Moeen Bhatti
by Muhammad Moeen Bhatti , Cluster Incharge , Premier DLC - A project of Beaconhouse Group

a virtual assistant usually works from home and not necessary to be present at the place of work

 

A Virtual Assistant is an assistant that is not in the same physical place as you are, thus the Virtual, if you were both in the same physical space then there will be no virtual in the position title.

 

ashraf taha
by ashraf taha , مدرس - teacher , مراكز تعليمية - Educational centers

There are a variety of virtual assistants and they all have different skills. Some may gear their work more toward scheduling and logistics, while others may focus on web-based services like manning email accounts, doing research or social media. Here are just a few things they can help you with.

 

Upload blogs or email newsletters

Respond to emails and set up email lists

Transcribe voice memos, conference calls and more

Run your calendar and plan your travel

Research

Compile data into organized spreadsheets

Handle forwarded phone calls when you're unavailable or out of town

Any time-consuming or repetitive tasks

Help you hire other employees by doing preliminary research on candidates

Write and distribute standard business communications

Prepare presentations

Manage your social media accounts

Coordinate with vendors

Place orders for new supplies

There are actually so many things a virtual assistant can do

 

Kah Poh Goh
by Kah Poh Goh , Business Development Director , Lock Property Consultants Pte Ltd

With modern technology and everyone are going to the light-out operations or out-of-office support, virtual assistant is important as it acts as the person performing the functions.

Mohammed Ismail Borkar
by Mohammed Ismail Borkar , Senior Cyber Security Analyst , InspiriSYS Solutions Limited

Providing professional administrative or technical assistant over the remote from Home or office to client is known as Virtual assistant.

Mohamemd Alahdal
by Mohamemd Alahdal , System Engineer/Authorized Reseller , Teramind,Inc

A Virtual Assistance (typically abbreviated to VA, also called a virtual office assistantis generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from a home office.

Hamza Tahboub
by Hamza Tahboub , Intern (Web Development) , Insan Wa Alat

A virtual assistant is basically a program in a device that you can ask to do stuff for you like make calls and set alarms. Modern VAs are human-like, for example if you say hello it would reply like a human.

Bassam Ali Mohammed Al-mamari
by Bassam Ali Mohammed Al-mamari , مساعد الرصد والتقييم , برودحي سيستمز

In a small companies, if you deal with numbers of clients and expect numbers of enquiry calls, emails and videos conference calls from different users, you can overcome all expense of making new office, furniture and communication devices for the purpose of receiving all these calls, emails, posts, soulation is to go for VA,

Virtual assistance, is  a person who can work for a company remotely to perform some tasks in behalf of other companies.

The connect between a company and a virtual assistance is an electronic contract that insure the rights of both (company and VS agent).

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VS agent can work for multiple companies at same time.

 

 

 

 

 

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