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What is a Human Resources Virtual Assistant (HRVA)?
A HRVA is an administrative professional who specializes in supporting human resource consultants in solo practice in a long-term, collaborative relationship.
How does working with a HRVA differ from hiring a full or part time employee?
When you work with or collaborate with a HRVA, you work with a peer, a fellow entrepreneur. Unlike an employee, a HRVA is proactive. Because she works closely with you, she knows your business, and this enables her to work with you with minimal direction.
A HRVA’s focus is on helping you reach your goals and dreams. A HRVA celebrates your successes as if they were her own. A HRVA is as vested in your business as she is in her own.
Isn’t working with a HRVA expensive?
There’s a difference between expense and value. Collaborating with a HRVA brings value to you, your business and your clients. How do you monetize increased productivity, better cash flow, time to take a vacation, time to spend with family and friends, better customer service, feeling less overwhelmed, etc.?
ExtraOrdinary Assistance provides human resource consultants in solo practice with virtual office management solutions.
As a solo entrepreneur, your office is your home, the local coffee joint or just about anywhere except a traditional office setting. Because you don’t work in a traditional office, you lack the support that comes with working in a traditional office — the kind of support you would get by working with an administrative assistant. What kinds of support would you be able to get from an administrative assistant?
- A receptionist
- Someone to answer the telephone and take messages
- Someone to make photocopies
- Someone to buy office supplies, equipment, stamps, etc.
- Someone to go to the post office and mail things
- Someone to take care of things when you’re out of the office
- Someone to process your expenses
- Someone to keep your paycheck safe
- Someone to schedule your appointments
- Someone to bill clients
- Someone to collect from slow-to-pay clients
- Someone to remind you of deadlines
- Someone to make travel arrangements
- Etc.
You could outsource some of the above. For example, you could hire an answering service to answer your telephone and take messages. You could hire a bookkeeper to do accounts receivable/payable. You could hire a concierge to run to the post office, buy office supplies, make travel arrangements, etc. Before you know it, you’re managing an army of vendors, which, in the long run, isn’t any more helpful than doing the work yourself.
The problem with outsourcing individual tasks to a number of individuals is that you’ve replaced the problem of getting the individual functions done with the problem of managing the individuals doing the work. You really haven’t gained much, and once you start chunking your virtual office functions into individual tasks, it’s easy to lose sight of the whole. And, what about those functions left that don’t fit neatly into the highly compartmentalized arena of outsourcing. In other words, there’s still a lot left over for you to do or let slide because you have more important things to do.
What’s a solo entrepreneur to do? Work with an administrative professional who specializes in supporting solo human resource consultants and other solo entrepreneurs. ExtraOrdinary Assistance has seven years’ experience in human resources and office management. ExtraOrdinary Assistance knows what HR consultants do and where they need help so they can focus on their core area of expertise.
Contact ExtraOrdinary Assistance today and schedule an appointment (FREE consultation) to discuss how collaborating with ExtraOrdinary Assistance can help you achieve the HR practice and life of your dreams.
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