General Virtual Assistant Wanted - Full Time Position - Work for a Canadian Company

Company Introduction:

Please read this entire job description before submitting your applicaiton.

Hi there, we are a dedicated group of passionate internet marketers based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We Believe in providing value to the world and our company culture promotes this.

We have a long history of working with intelligent, hard working and dedicated team members from the Philippines, and we're Looking to grow our staff once more.

The first thing I want to say is that I understand how poorly many virtual workers from the Philippines have been treated in the past by various employers from many countries.

I understand how scary it can be, especially when employers treat you badly, say rude or mean things or worse not pay your salary on time.

I will never do any of those things. I take care of and protect my team members. I understand how important family is to you, I also understand many people that apply to my job will be supporting their families with wages earned working remotely over the internet for me.

I know you count on the word of your employer, and if you decide to work with me you will be treated with respect, honesty and always paid on time as promised.

We are looking to build a team of long term employees that are willing to work hard, be treated extremely well and have stable long term employment within our firm. We have a lot of work and you will never need to worry about being let go, or being bored.

We treat our staff like extended family, and many of our team members have worked full time for us since 2008.

The reality is if you can deliver the quality of work required on time you will have a job with me for as long as you wish.



Job Description:

As a general virtual assitant you will be tasked with a variety of tasks which require attention to detail and high quality of work output.

You will during work days be in daily contact with myself and we will typically have a 20-30 Minute video conversion call on Google Hangouts, Skype etc once per week. This is so I can better understand your working process and help you conduct the best quality of job possible. You will be a very important member of my team.

You will often be doing a variety of tasks over each month. We have created a list of the common tasks our GVA's perform. You are not expected to be an absolute expert on every topic, but you do need to have previous experience and a willingness to learn new skills as you continue to work with us.

One of the most critical aspects will be your ability to speak, read and write very high quality english. As we are a Canadian company we are native English speakers. We find this is one of the most important aspects to sucessful VA's as we must be able to communicate effectivly. Our instructions must be clearly understood, so please keep this in mind.


The Typical Tasks Required:

Email & Schedule Management Tasks:

- Filtering Emails / Managing Spam
- Database Building / Updating Contacts or CRM
- Calendar Management
- Appointment Scheduling
- Reminder Services
- Billing / Payment Due Dates (Managed via Google Calendar)

File Storage & Organization Tasks:

- Dropbox / Google Drive Organization
- Data Entry in Word, or Google Docs
- Creating / Managing Spreadsheets
- Preparing Powerpoint / keynote Presentations
- PDF Conversion, Splitting and Merging
- Organizing and Processing the Managers Evernote Account


Administrative & Blogging Tasks:

- Transcription of Video and Audio Files
- Simple eBook Layout / Formatting
- Preparing Online Meeting Minutes
- Report Creation
- Forms Creation
- Document Template Creation
- Online Research (This is important)
- Data Mining & Development / Lead Generation
- Blog Publishing Management
- Moderating Blog Comments
- Project Management & Training Tasks
- Project Management Between Myself and other team members
- Preparation of Training Materials
- Deadline / Deliverables Tracking
- Social Media Management Tasks
- Creating Facebook Fan Pages / Groups
- Managing other Social Media Accounts
- Posting and Scheduling Facebook Insights
- Promoting Facebook Pages
- Collating and Interpreting Facebook Insights
- Creating a Twitter Account
- Managing and Increasing Your Twitter Following
- Schedule Tweets and Track Mentions and Hashtags
- Create and Manage LinkedIn Account / Profile
- Create Pinnable Images on Pinterest
- Scheduling and Tracking Pins
- Create and Manage YouTube Account
- Upload Videos on YouTube
- Moderating YouTube Comments
- Uploading Videos to other Video Sharing Sites / Social Media
- Answer inquiries and Messages on All Channel & Profiles
- Create Slideshare Presentations
- Creation of simple InfoGraphics



Skills and Qualifications:

- College and or University Degree Preferred. If you're a english teacher or Libraian we want you to apply
- Very strong english reading comprehension
- Very strong written english skills
- We will often speak with your over Skype, Slack, Google Hangouts, therefore you must have superior level of spoken english.
- Minimum 2 years of experience writing high quality written content
- Strong internet and computer skills
- Very strong researching skills online
- You must be highly focused and motivated to achieve targets and goals
- You do allow disruptions or distractions while you are working, you must be disciplined and professional.



Additional Notes / Benefits:

- Salary will be based on experience level. Please ensure you include an up to date CV and tell us a little bit about yourself and answer the following questions.

- Based on the brief description of this job, why do you want to work for me?

- What is your expected monthly salary range?

- Why do you feel you would be a benefit to my company as a General Virtual Assistant?

- What has been the biggest work related challenge you have faced over the last 2 years and how did you resolve it?

- When are you available to start working with me?


- We typically pay salaries monthly via Paypal or Western Union, it's your choice. If you require being paid bi-weekly we have no problem doing that for you after your first 30 days of employment with us.

- All new staff will be under a probation period for their first 90 days. I honestly wish we did not need to have a policy of 3 month probation, but unfortunately we have had challenges in the past where certain employees were not ethical.

- After your 3 month probation period we are happy to offer you health care coverage. We will pay for both the employee and employer contribution amounts.

We currently use the following table to detail cost.

http://www.philhealth.gov.ph/partners/employers/contri_tbl.html

We understand how rare this benefit is within the field of virtual work. In fact many other companies think we are foolish for offering it to our staff members.

We disagree, as stated above we care deeply about the quality of life and health of our team. We know how important your family is to you and we feel this added security will help reduce stress & worry from your life.

We also hope it allows you more quality time with your family and or children. As stated above we hope you continue to work with us for years to come.

We are honored to be able to offer this benefit to you, we believe healthy staff equals happy staff.

- At 6 months all new staff members which have excelled within their positions will have the opportunity to receive a salary increase based on performance and work attendance. At this time we also review your performance to determine if a promotion in our company has been earned.

- We honor the 13 month bonus to all staff which have been employed for at least 11 months prior to Dec of the year.

- We also offer training to allow you to further improve your skills via online video training with services such as Lynda.com, teamtreehouse, etc.

- We believe in trusting our staff and employees, we do not micro manage or force you to work all night so that you are awake during our daytime in Vancouver, Canada.

You can work whenever is the most productive for you, but we expect honor, honesty and focused work delivered.

If you are ready to join a team of caring, dynamic and passionate digital marketers apply today, I look forward to speaking with you.