Make Money Online Easy By Becoming Virtual Assistant As A Student

As a student, it is difficult to find an online job in beginning without experience and skills. A big question in your mind would be "How to make money online in beginning without having any skills?

The answer is Virtual Assistance! Yes becoming a virtual assistant is easy. It doesn't require any tough special skill that is hard to learn. Any student can make money by becoming a virtual assistant.

Many online entrepreneurs start with this job only to start earning online. So, you too can.

In this post, you will get to know what work has to be done actually by a virtual assistant and where can you find your first jobs.

What is the work done by a Virtual Assistant?

There are many types of virtual assistance jobs. People can hire you for different purposes. It can be general administrative work, designing work, programming work, digital marketing work, writing and editing work and many more. 

The jobs you would get will depend on your skills. It is not necessary to be an expert in those skills, you would be given only small work. But you must be familiar with these jobs and do have basic knowledge about your work/skills.

Don't you know coding, designing, digital marketing, editing, writing? Don't worry. The best virtual assistance you can do as a student is general/administrative jobs.

Administrative Virtual Assistants work include

• Database entry and file handling
• Handling emails
• Booking appointments/flights
• Attending telephone inquiries
• Managing calendars

Anyone can do this in this digital era and if you can't, just invest some time to get to learn how to do these small computer works. And now, you are ready for your first online job.

But an administrative virtual assistant is the basic hiring. It only includes the basics of working on the computer.

If you have a special skill like writing, editing, coding, designing, SEO or any other skill, then you can get a specialist virtual assistance job.

In special hiring, you must have a special skill like writing, programming or designing. It doesn't require having the experience to get a job but you must be able to do small work.

All work will depend on your niche. If you are a writing virtual assistant you would be hired for work like researching niche keywords, writing content for keywords, proofreading the content and stuff like that.

All your tasks will be your niche related and it wouldn't be so tough.

But there are also expert virtual assistants who get the higher payment. To get this job, you must have strong knowledge in your niche and good feedback from previous clients. It requires experience to get this job.

Where can you find virtual assistant jobs?

Virtual Assistant Jobs are like a freelance job. So, you will be hired on any of the freelance websites.
Some of the best websites for virtual assistant jobs are given below.

Find your virtual assistant job here:

• Boldly
• Freelancer.com
• Upwork
• Profit factory
• Guru.com
• Amazon Mechanical Turk

There are also many sites apart from them like Fiverr, people per hour, etc but mentioned above are best of all other sites. You can start with anyone of these.

There is high competition in virtual assistant jobs as many people are willing to become virtual assistants and make money online. But don't worry, work hard, be professional and be persistent, you will get a virtual assistant job.

Build a portfolio or personal blog and keep track of your work which will be an upper edge for a virtual assistant.

In beginning don't work for money, work for feedback and good reviews from clients. Build your experience and portfolio.

You should have good communication skills so that you should make a good connection with your client and the work can be done properly.

Conclusion

Being a virtual assistant is easy. Anyone can be a virtual assistant, it only needs your computer skills and word processing/writing skills.

The main part is to get your first client. You have to build trust in the client through your communication and portfolio. Be professional and make your expertise and experience known on social networking resources like Linkedin, Craigslist, Twitter, etc.

I hope you had all your doubts clear about virtual assistant jobs. If there is any suggestion/tip you think I should add on, please write below in comments.

Where would you find your first virtual assistant job?