Watch Me Interview a Virtual Assistant for eBay Dropshipping!

what kind of questions should you ask a virtual assistant if you are interviewing them to hopefully hire them to work on your eBay dropshipping business well today you and I are sitting down to interview a virtual assistant that I might be hiring for my eBay Drop Shipping business specifically to help me list items onto eBay now full transparency here all the virtual assistants that I've hired and interviewed in the past don't want to be on camera or don't want the video recorded and put on YouTube so what I did instead is I specifically made a job post saying hey I'm looking to interview a virtual assistant and we're going to pretend that I'm interviewing you for an eBay Drop Shipping job but I also want to ask you some questions about what it's like to be a virtual assistant and live in the Philippines and be a VA from the Philippines and the reason I chose the Philippines is really just because I use a website called online jobs to hire all my virtual assistants and all the virtual assistants on that website are from the Philippines and the reason I love it so much is because they're really fair to the virtual assistance other websites when you hire vas through that website they will take a percentage a cut of all the money that you pay your vas with online jobs on the other hand and you just hire the VA through the website and then all the payments are arranged just between the two of you so in other words 100% of the money that you send the VA gets to the VA the website online jobs does not take a cut of it in addition to that I've just hired some fantastic virtual assistants through online jobs so I really love the website and I highly recommend it if you do want to check it out I do have an affiliate link to it and that will be in the description of this video all right so let's get right into this interview I learned a lot about virtual assistance by talking with this potential candidate and I learned a lot about what it's like to live in the Philippines from her as well so I think you're really going to love it well thank you for taking the

time to let me interview you so why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself like who you are and where you live and okay uh first of all I am SEL an cabatingan I lived here in General Santos city Philippines um I am currently taking up my second degree which is uh Bachelor of Science in architecture and I am doing a or I am working online for almost 4 years now so that's it sir cool so do you like being a virtual assistant yes sir I like it a lot what do you like about it because it is um a flexible work for me sir because I am uh studying and also it helps me a lot when it comes to my uh daily finances cool so what kind of work have

you done as a VA so far online so far as I started working as a virtual assistant um I have done a data entry which I collect um some datas from the uh websites and put it in the spreadsheet later on I started working as eBay uh Lister or drop shipper which I uh used some different tools such as uh DSM tools Z analytics uh web seller Guru uh what they call this autod DS and gear bubble I also do a video editing uh I am using uh Vegas and also uh I am doing a photo editing as well using Photoshop great so I want to hear more

about what you do what you've done for eBay dropshipping um you said you do listing you've done listings before right yes sir so tell me how long you were doing that for and uh what you remember about that okay for one list or for one listing I am doing it for um 10 minutes to 15 minutes it depends on the item so uh first of all I would um or the first thing that I would do is um I would research for a best seller item in Amazon and then I will uh search it on eBay so that I can uh I would know that uh how many sold items per 30 days so if the items if the item is good I will list it in eBay using the tools such as DSM or autods cool so to

do that would you use Zeke analytics yes sir as a research great so how long have you been or how long did you do eBay Drop Shipping or help with that for eBay Drop Shipping I think it's almost 3 years now okay and are you still working for someone doing that yes sir okay um cool so do you like that like doing that work yes sir what do you like about it because it's um more on research and aside from that I am loving the items that I have found from different sites such as um Amazon Walmart and Home Depot cool have you used any other

websites besides those three no sir okay only those three so where would you be doing this work do you have a good internet connection where you are oh I am doing this work here in my office there because I have a shop here in Philippines it is a uh salon and barber cats it is what sorry oh okay Salon yeah so you do like haircuts and things like that I have my uh staff are doing it

okay so you you're in school right yes sir and you work in a salon and your virtual assistant yes sir at the same three anything else um that's it sir that's a lot how do you handle all of that those different jobs um it's all about time management sir if I do have a free time um I am managing my uh business at the same time uh for night since I am working um from 900 p. m. to 1:00 a. m. so that's my uh working time for the daytime I am uh

studying and what do you want to do once you're done with school by when you finished with School uh what job do you want to get I want to be a successful architect sir oh very cool that's very nice um so is it pretty common in the

Philippines to have many jobs like you do I didn't me you have three jobs is that common in the Philippines or do most people have one job it is uh most people with one job sir Okay so

um we talked about this beforehand now I'm recording this I'm going to put this on YouTube um so people can learn about virtual assistance and hiring one what do you think is important for people to know if they're hiring a virtual assistant from the Philippines okay first and for most they should know that the virtual assistant is um really be serious about the job because if the virtual assistant is not uh the job is become uh useless and really hard to take from the both of you so if you're the client I am the virtual system if I am not working hard then your business will be will get lost or something like that makes sense

yeah so in other words what I think what you're trying to say is that if you don't do work the business will fail and then you won't have a job yes sir yeah and at the same time the virtual assistant should be a trustworthy one because um he will be or she or he will be handling your um personal information so you should um be careful on hire on hiring a virtual assistant

and how do you think people can like how could I be careful when hiring a virtual assistant to make sure that they will be trustworthy okay in that case sir you should um put some restrictions on your accounts um maybe you should not um give all the personal information to your virtual assistant you should have um take a limit or give a limitations that makes sense

so how do you think the culture in the Philippines is different from like here in America um do you think that there's any issues that come up because your culture is different than the American culture do you understand what I mean a little bit sir because um for me the difference or not that the difference but um pH phinos are accommodating sir and uh Filipinos are really hospitable so I think that's the um a little bit uh or what we call this that's the thing that I can say proudly my so when you first

started working with your employer were there any difficulties you had um with the job yes sir the time management because uh most of my uh former employers uh working graveyard or working at different times or time schedule that's why um I am having a hard time on adjusting myself but it's I got used to it is that because of the time difference yes sir so how do you handle that um I handled that by doing a rest at daytime and um I'm just taking a lot of food eating at night so you have to stay up later so that you can work while your employer is awake is that right yes sir yeah and do you mind doing that yes sir I mean you don't mind doing it yes sir I okay um do you think there's anything

else people need to know about you know the Philippines about virtual assistance hiring one anything you want people to know or understand okay I think uh people should understand that virtual assistant is not just a job that uh they can and easily say that it's an degradable because it is a job that um flexible to um other Filipinos or other virtual assistants that has a lot of work like me or has a uh what you call this a hectic schedule so I think that's all

sir have you had any Bad Bosses before yes sir the ones that uh scams me scammed me uh what do you mean what happened um most of all sir from the data entry I worked a lot for I think almost 2 weeks and after that after he received all the information uh he blocked me and did then did not contact me anymore so he didn't pay you yes oh I'm so sorry to

hear that is there anything you're doing now differently to prevent that from happening um I think uh the only way is to make the employer pay weekly so that if uh it is scum or not at least you just um wasted your time for almost a week or for a

week if you could say something to him or anyone else who's thinking about scamming a virtual assistant what would you say to them God bless that that's a very nice thing to say I would say something much

meaner so a lot of people well not a lot of there's some people here in the United States when I tell them I hire virtual assistants from the Philippines uh they tell me well why are you hiring or paying people from the Philippines when there are people in America who need work so do you have anything you would say to those people or what do you suggest that I would say to those people I think sir because um Philippine are call this satisfied with the little pay or with the little money that they are um having from the from their employers so there are other people who

would say that we don't when I tell them how much I pay my virtual assistance they say uh they can't believe it and they think that I'm you know taking advantage of you guys because I'm paying you so much less than I would be paying if I was hiring someone in the United States so you know it's about $2 to $3 an hour um is that good money for you for You2 to$ three an hour yes sir for me as a virtual assistant it is really good enough for it is um what do you call this it is really good enough to sustain my needs like enough for you to live on that much yes sir it depends on the job what do you mean like uh what we call this programming and it depends on the uh capability of a virtual assistant so something like

video editing might you might charge more for no sir I only charge $2 to $3 per hour so what would you charge more for then no I only charge $2 to $3 per hour well thank you so much for your

time and letting me interview you I think this definitely opened up my eyes about what it's like to be a virtual assistant and what your life is like as a virtual assistant in the Philippines and the type of work that you do employers that you look for when you are being hired so thank you so much for your time uh I really appreciate it thank you so much sir have a wonderful day okay sir you too so there you go that's how you interview a virtual assistant if you're looking to hire them for your eBay Drop Shipping business and as you heard we also got to go into what it's like to be a virtual assistant what it's like to be one in the Philippines so I want to hear what your biggest takeaway is drop a comment underneath this video letting me know what your biggest take away is from the video what the most significant thing that you learned was and if you like this video make sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe if you love the video and look if you want to learn more about how to hire and train virtual assistants I have a course that teaches all about it that will be the first link in the description of this video and the second link will be the link to online jobs where I hire and train or hire all my virtual assistants from thanks so much for watching the video and I'll see you next time