What’s a reference checked VA?

In the corporate world, if you were looking to employee a personal assistant, you would ask for their resume and check out their references.

In the virtual world, this is a bit different.

Virtual Assistants (VAs) don’t have resumes. Why? Because they are a service provider, not an employee. Think of it this way – If you call a plumber to your house to fix your toilet, would you ask him for his resume before he does the work? I wouldn’t!

However, I understand that as a fellow business owner, that you want to make sure the VA you’re going to work with, is who they say they are, and can do what they say they can do. And although all virtual relationships are built on time and trust, our team does some of the background research for you.

We’ve done the reference checking for you.

When a VA in our Virtually Yours network applies to be referenced checked, they must provide us with the name of 3 fellow business owners who have used their services – not from their time in the corporate world, but from their work as a VA in their own business.

We then contact the referees and ask them a set of questions about the work the VA does, the quality of the work, and if they’d recommend the VA to others.

When, and only when, all 3 referees reply and we find their responses to be satisfactory, do we issue the VA with a ‘reference checked’ status.

You can tell who is a reference checked VA as it will be noted on their VA directory listing. You may also see them displaying this logo:

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