The eSOS Blog has been nominated in the Sydney Writer’s Festival Best Australian Blogs 2011 competition. This is very exciting and finalists will be announced Thursday 21 April with winners announced Friday 6 May 2011. We’re in the Business Category and also in the People’s Choice category and voting opens for this latter category on [...]
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I was doing some work for a client the other day and he was making recommendations that someone would be suitable for “reasonably unskilled work” like administrative and office/clerical work. It got me thinking – do the general public really think that secretaries and other admin/clerical staff are “unskilled”? This couldn’t be further from the [...]
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Tags: admin staff, administration, business services, business support, clerical work, remote secretary, remote support, virtual assistant
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There have been a few posts to VA lists of late about jobs advertised on lists like SEEK job placement boards. They might be for medical transcriptionists, typists, phone sales and so on. I would urge caution to any VA who considered applying for one of these advertised positions. For tax purposes you would potentially [...]
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| Tags: Australia, business, business services, outsourcing, transcription, va, virtual assistant
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If you’re a new virtual assistant you’ll want to take up the advice of the veterans and join a few networks. I’ve mentioned on this blog before about the ones here in Australia and there are many overseas networks too. You get some great support, encouragement and advice particularly when starting out. Most networks will [...]
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It’s not over yet for independent contractors. The Australian Financial Review reported last week the Gillard Government is still committed to a crackdown on sham contracting (ie the misuse of Australian business numbers to avoid tax and superannuation obligations). I’ve blogged before about how on the face of it this is a good thing for [...]
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| Tags: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, independent contractor, sham contracting, va, virtual assistant
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