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Hiring A Virtual Assistant During The Pandemic

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Telecommuting and Virtual Assistants are not new. They have existed for a long time, but, few companies have taken this type of work and hiring seriously until 2020 came around and we all had to deal with the pandemic. In the best of cases, companies, regardless of their size, had to send their employees home and adapt their systems to a virtual platform and do it quickly. Others with less success had to lay off employees in order to survive the worst months of lockdown. And many simply disappeared.

The Pandemic

However, there are industries that have experienced their best moments as a result of the pandemic, especially the virtual assistance industry. Today for companies, there has been a change in the search for personnel. They are not only looking for someone trained but someone who also has what are considered soft skills.

What are Soft Skills?

They are skills …