Rockstar Research Assistant

We need a superstar Research Assistant with exceptional research and excellent English communication skills. Part-time, Casual and Flexible. Willing to pay $6-9USD/hour +bonus for the right candidate.

Do fancy yourself as a hardworking go-getter with a natural thirst for information, solving problems and answering complex questions? Are you a high achiever who has exceptional researching and searching skills on the internet? Are able to read, analyse and distil a lot of information online and offline, to form an informed opinion on a topic? A great communicator, trustworthy and disciplined in managing their own time? Get in touch!

We are in need of a Research Assistant who is great at mining, researching and analysing information/topics on the Internet, and creating high-level summaries of the findings - refer to example questions below to get a feel of the work you may be tasked with. This is a part-time role, which I am hoping to grow with the right person. The right person must have substantial experience being a research assistant with some virtual/personal assistant skills – the first word in your application letter must have your favourite colour.

All applicants must have a Bachelors Degree or above. Applicant should have to have a higher than 85% average score for their degree. Ideally they are also skilled with Web research (content and meta), a strong understanding of SEO and linking, be diligent and naturally curious, has excellent writing/communicating skills, and has taken university papers in economics, geography, engineering, sciences, or other papers preferably from STEM fields.

Example questions you may work on:
a) What is the monthly web traffic to ---------- ? And what are the keywords being used by the searchers?
b) What are the top 5 agriculture-related industries in New Zealand and how do they compare with similar-sized countries with similar weather and economies?
c) What are the top 5 issues faced by dairy farmers in New Zealand?
d) What are the top 5 neighbourhoods where property prices have increased in Auckland (New Zealand) in the last 6 months?
e) What are the top industries (by workforce size, revenue and profit margin in ascending order) affected by COVID-19 in Fiji, and which social welfare programmes are facing the most strain currently and into the next 6 months?
f) What are the top 5 issues faced by the legal cannabis industry in California, USA?
g) What are the top 3 fertility doctors in New Zealand?

Please don’t apply if you are not comfortable with working on questions that are similar in nature

***APPLICATIONS & HOW TO APPLY***
To apply for this position please send an email to ---------- with the subject line: I AM YOUR SUPERSTAR RA and include the following:
In the body of the email answer the below questions:
1. Why do you feel you are the right person for the role?
2. Pick any 2 questions from the above (a-g) and answer them.
3. What experience do you have being a Virtual Assistant or a Personal Assistant?
4. What is your hourly rate?
5. Have you done product market research before?

6. Attach your resume
7. Attach your cover letter - the first word in your cover letter must be favourite colour. The rest of the letter can begin from the next paragraph. All replies that do not have a colour in the first word will be screened out immediately – as this work is detail-oriented.
***Only successful candidates will be contacted***