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Why this works when hiring locally doesn't

The case, honestly put

You are not buying cheaper hours. You are buying back the eight hours a week that go on work only you can currently do because only you know how. The economics are the smaller half. The bigger half is that delegating forces you to write down how your business actually runs — which is the thing that makes it sellable, survivable and finally not dependent on you being at your desk.

How we hire and train

Discovery → recruit → vet → train → place → support

We start with a discovery call to work out what you actually need — which is often not the role you first described. We recruit against that specific brief rather than sending you a shortlist from a pool. Candidates are interviewed and tested before you meet anyone, so the people you see are the ones already worth your time. Training covers both the tools on this board and the way your business works. After placement we stay involved: check-ins, performance reviews, and a replacement if the fit is wrong. You manage the work. We handle the hiring, the training and everything that goes with employing someone overseas.

• Company email address created on your domain
• Password manager vault shared — no credentials sent over chat
• Two-factor sorted on every account they will touch, recovery codes kept by you
• One communication channel agreed, and everyone told to use it
• First week's tasks written down, with a Loom for each recurring one
• Time tracking installed and the reporting expectation agreed out loud
• Weekly call in the calendar, in their time zone as well as yours
• Payment method and payday confirmed in writing before day one

Who this is for

Business owners hiring their first — or fifth — virtual assistant

This is the setup we walk every HireTrainVA client through before their assistant starts. You do not need our help to use it: copy the board, swap in the tools you already run, and work down the checklist. If you would rather we handled the hiring, training and the setup, that is what we do.

• Week 1 — they shadow and document; nothing is delegated blind
• Week 2 — they run the recurring tasks with you reviewing each one
• Week 3 — they own the recurring tasks and write the SOPs for them
• Week 4 — first real feedback conversation, in both directions
• By day 30 — at least three tasks are off your plate permanently
• By day 30 — every SOP they wrote is somewhere the next person could find

• You can name three tasks you did this week that someone else could do
• At least one of them repeats every week
• You could record a walkthrough of each in under ten minutes
• You have somewhere for the work to be tracked
• You can commit to one call a week for the first month
• You are prepared to be a manager, not just a client

Why we published this

The setup is the part nobody tells you about

Most advice about hiring a virtual assistant is about where to find one. Almost none of it is about the fortnight before they start, which is where the engagement is actually won or lost. We have watched the same four failures for years: credentials in chat, no recorded walkthroughs, no agreed channel, and no way to see the work. All four are preventable in an afternoon.