Virtual
secretary is a professional who works for a company or office or any client
living his or her home setups, he works independently on contract basis, most
of the virtual secretary works on remote distance. When in an office, the
authority needs the executive support to do smooth functioning in the work of
the office, it hires the virtual secretary, and virtual secretary is also known
as virtual assistants. A company normally hires a virtual secretary for
cutting off the cost of a office manager, by doing multitask a virtual
secretary or assistant keeps the office smooth going. In his work, he arranges
the video conference, attending phone calls, setting database, doing the works
on internet basis.
The Qualifications Needed to Be Virtual Secretary
A person
who has completed high school graduation and has basic office skills can wish
to become a virtual secretary, must have a lot of experience in secretarial or
executive experience, the other qualifications he should have, the
bookkeeping experience, he needs to have administrative background, at
the same time he should have legal assistant experience, he must need to
possess excellent customer service skills, before working as a virtual
secretary he heeds to have professional and organizational abilities, he must
be expert in office management, as he is attached with the official job, so he
is required to do good proof reading, writing and editing.
The
Salary of Virtual Assistant in the USA
As per
statistics, the average pay for a virtual assistant is $15.21 per hour, if an
assistant can acquire the skill with MS Office, he definitely can higher pay.
According to the BLS, average annual salary of an executive and administrative
assistant got in May, 2010, $45,860. The average annual salary of a secretary
or administrative assistant in the same year was $32,000. Legal secretaries
would get an average $43,270 per year as per the report of the same year when
medical secretary earned an average payment $31,820 in the year. In the USA , Atlanta
GA
The Skills of a Virtual Secretary
An
efficient virtual secretary must have some skills which he must excel during
his duty hours. He must have knowledge of handling office equipment, using of
internet will be his activity of finger tips, he must be good communicative
with his clients, he must be expert in maintaining database, he should be able
to make travel arrangements, he needs to have the capacity of coordination
conference calls, he needs to be quick in answering phone calls, good
performance in different types of desktop is his another skill, he needs to do
good drafting of official or business letters, a virtual secretary must be able
in proof reading and editing, book keeping is another important field which he
should know well. If required he needs to make, office information and
brochures, with making proper designing.
The Different Fields of Works of a Virtual Secretary
A virtual
secretary can be found in various fields, like legal field, medical field,
administrative field, in the fields of corporate sectors and business fields.
How a Virtual Secretary Works
A virtual secretary works from a distant location, for example, if a client fixes upon a
virtual secretary or assistant for making the deal of the business with any
other person. Living in
Germany or Brazil , the
virtual secretary acts as per instruction or order of the clients with the
other person or the company through video conferencing or phone calls at odd
hours, at the same time he may be required to draft a letter for the purpose of
business on behalf of the client.
Conclusion
In the
fastest growing world, the virtual secretary is going to take a lead role, they
have made their great efforts in doing business and official works.
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