SYS 071: 2 Million Virtual Assistants!? Meet John Jonas, Founder of Onlinejobs.ph
Steve interviews John Jonas, founder of onlinejobs.ph, which is a Philippines based job board providing virtual assistants to businesses internationally. It is a simple recruitment process that enables the user to source suitable and skilled workers and for job seekers from the Philippines to find the right online employment. He also teaches how to hire Virtual Assistants and how to make the system work well for your outsourcing.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The culture of the Philippines is honesty, loyalty, good technology and internet access, low salaries, good English language skills, they appreciate the good working conditions offered by working at home and are glad to work for foreign bosses.
- To get the right assistant for you John recommends checking out Www.OneVAAway.com. It is a comprehensive guide to getting the right VA for you.
- Define correctly the role that you want to hire for.
- Hire someone for a job that you already know how to do that you can teach to someone else. Search for the skill and find out how much you have to pay and if the skills exist to fulfill your role.
- When you get your applicants you will find that if you have advertised for a general position, like a VA, you will get hundreds of applicants. If you don’t feel free to contact possible recruits.
- Use email to get an initial interview going. In this way you can bypass the initial shyness common amongst the people of the Philippines.
- The amount and the quality of training and feedback is important. Its part of the culture to expect on the job training. They see it as their boss investing in them. Also, they require regular feedback on their work.
- Software like Snagit can help you provide feedback easily as it records your screen and video of you so you can communicate not only training but notes, corrections and congratulations on your VA’s work.
- Building trust is essential with your VA’s so you can recognise and communicate with them on what is occurring in their lives so you understand any potential problems.
BEST MOMENTS
‘We also advocate the Philippines as a great place but I wanna hear it from you. What is it about the Philippines particularly that you think makes it a great place for people in The States or U.K or Europe or whatever to actually hire people from?’ - Steve
‘In the Philippines they look up to foreign bosses as opposed to other cultures where like “oh, my stupid American boss”, you know?’ – John
‘Hope fully you’re gonna work with this person for the next 15 years. I didn’t say this already but the first person I ever hired in the Philippines in 2005 still works for me today.’ – John
‘If I send them an email today and they respond in 4 or 6 or 10 hours that’s great. If it takes them 2 or 3 days to respond, well, the chances of them taking 2 or 3 days to respond after I’ve hired them, it’s high, and that doesn’t work for me.’ – John
‘I hate meetings. I despise meetings. So in this they get to hear my voice and sometimes they get to see me because I’ll include myself in the corner of it which is super easy. And that builds trust, just them hearing my voice and getting to know my personality.’ – John
‘If you don’t do that, if you don’t build that trust that we were talking about before and give people a platform and understand that this is a human being like your saying, they have just the same problems that we have.’ - Steve
ABOUT THE GUEST
John has helped thousands of entrepreneurs succeed in their business by doing outsourcing differently. He created and runs OnlineJobs.ph, the largest website for finding Filipino virtual workers, with almost 2,000,000 Filipino resumes and over 300,000 employers from around the world using it. He works about 17 hours per week, choosing to spend his time with his family rather than working
GUEST RESOURCES
For your recruiting needs ;
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Guidance on how to source your new VA? ;
VALUABLE RESOURCES
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The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
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