Distress hires can be the bane of any business.
You urgently need help, but don’t have the time to interview more than a handful of people, so you interview the first five people whose CVs arrive in your inbox. After a series of hurried chats over Zoom, you’re not 100% convinced that any of the candidates are right, but your to-do list is getting longer by the minute, so you ignore the niggling feeling in the pit of your stomach and hire the least-bad option.
Least bad should never be your best option.
Day 1: You discover your new assistant’s font of choice is Comic Sans. Teething trouble, you tell yourself.
Day 2: You delegate some easy tasks to your new assistant and are somewhat alarmed when it takes them all day to complete one job. On discussing this with them you discover that their interpretation of ‘Computer literate’ actually means ‘Knows how to switch one on’.
Day 3: You spend the whole day correcting the work your new assistant did yesterday.
Day 4: Your new assistant calls in sick and your workload seemingly triples in the space of 10 minutes.
Day 5: After you wake up in a cold sweat after a dream of being chased around the office by a mile-long to-do list (written in Comic Sans), you resign yourself to the fact that it’s just not working and have a bum-clenchingly awkward conversation with your new assistant ending their employment with you.
‘Never again’, you tell yourself, before looking at your overflowing desk and telling yourself that sleep is overrated.
Sound familiar?
We know how daunting it can be to even think about looking for that Gal or Guy Friday who’s going to magically make your life easier, which is why we’re here to do all the hard work for you and take the pain out of hiring your support staff.
I know, I know, you’re reading this and wondering ‘But what makes VA Agency different to all the other recruitment companies?’ and I’m happy to let you into our secret…
We listen.
It’s as simple as that. Rather than trying to fit a square peg into a round hole and connect you with the first VA in the queue, we take the time to get to know you and your business, finding out what you need, and giving you candidates that fit your brief. We know every member of our team inside out and what their skillsets are. We’ll send you our top choices for the role and facilitate introductory calls to help everything get off to a smooth start. Voila! Your to-do list is halved, you start leaving the office at a sensible hour and sleep once again becomes a reality rather than an unattainable dream.
And we solemnly promise, none of the VA Agency team ever use Comic Sans.
Sound good? Book a Discovery Call today and start making your life easier!
Until next time!
Stay productive.