Choosing the Right Paid (or Unpaid) Job Service

By Gayle Buske, President and CEO, Team Double-Click® and VirtualAssistingUSA

• Do your homework – be sure the site is not just pulling job postings from other sites and placing them on their own. In this case, you don’t stand much of a chance at winning the business because the client or employer is so bombarded with responses. *Case in point – Team Double-Click® placed ONE job posting and received over 1,000 responses!
• Check around to see if the site will stand behind you if the client you locate on their site decides to take a hike before he pays his bill. When I say stand behind you, I mean do they do more than simply send them a nasty gram?
• How many job postings are there? Does the site have an ample supply of job postings to choose from? Again, don’t discount a site simply because they don’t have a lot. Sometimes these sites can be gems because other people have the same reaction as you:

“Aw, there’s not much here, I’ll go somewhere else.”

• Think quality – not quantity. If others have the above reaction, that’s good for you – it means your competition just backed off a notch. Is the site easy to maneuver? A no-brainer. If you can’t get around, the client probably can’t either and they’ll go away. Are you allowed direct contact with the client? This is a biggie. You want that direct contact so you can show that client how you can shine!

About the author:

Gayle Buske is the co-founder, president and CEO of Team Double-Click and VirtualAssistingUSA. As the head of a virtual staffing agency with over 57,000 virtual professionals in its pool, Ms. Buske is uniquely qualified to aid small business owners in their growth and development through virtual outsourcing. Virtual Assistants across the globe look to Ms. Buske and her organizations for guidance, mentoring and motivation.

Team Double-Click®, the country’s foremost staffing agency for trained Virtual Assistants – Matching Top Virtual Workers with Top Companies! Visit http://www.teamdoubleclick.com for a variety of full-service virtual staffing options.

VirtualAssistingUSA provides virtual assistants a place to upload their profile, advertise their services and get access to affordable training, marketing and billing assistance for their business. VirtualAssistingUSA gives small business owners direct access to our database of tens of thousands of virtual assistants – without the ongoing agency fees and gives them access to talent that is not available through other venues. Visit http://www.virtualassistingusa.com for more information.

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