Friday, August 28, 2026

The top 14 "VA" experts people are hiring

"What are Filipino VAs best at?"

I always struggle to answer that question because they're people.  
I want to ask "What are Americans best at?"

Uhhh...you can find someone to do anything?

Same in the Philippines. 

But...here are what your peers are searching and hiring for on OnlineJobs.ph in 2026:

 
Rank Skill Search/Job Post Count
1 Video Editing 144,013
2 Virtual Assistant & Admin 141,738
3 Sales & Cold Calling 106,277
4 Social Media 102,635
5 Advertising & Marketing 94,317
6 English & Communication 71,337
7 Graphic Design 59,398
8 Customer Service 51,464
9 Bookkeeping & Finance 36,789
10 Shopify & Ecommerce 30,936
11 GoHighLevel 30,728
12 Content Creation & Copywriting 24,740
13 SEO 24,456
14 Lead Generation 18,948


There were 2 surprises in this list for me:
1. Video editing was more sought after than Virtual Assistants (including "executive assistant, personal assistant, general assistant...").
So much Youtube/TikTok/Insta/FB and high level video editing is being done in the Philippines. 

2. Sales - I'm not surprised it's in the top 10, I was just surprised it was #3. I get asked all the time if you can hire someone who can sell.  According to your peers, yes you can. 

Everything else on the list?  I was like
- Yep
- Yep
- Yep
- Yep
- Easy
- Yep
- ...

Super easy to hire for any one of these roles.  

John


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Thursday, August 27, 2026

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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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How to get better at delegating

You know you should delegate more. So why don't you?

Not delegating keeps you in the weeds of the business.  It prevents your business from growing. It keeps you doing $10/hour tasks instead of $1000/hour tasks. It keeps you from growing. 

So why not?

I didn't do it because I thought three things:
- I don't know if they can actually do good work. It probably won't be as good as I can.
- It's easier to just do it myself
- What if they screw something up?  How can I trust them?

First, my answers. Then, how to get better at it.

1. You're right. You don't KNOW if they can actually do good work. They might do better work than you. They might not. 
Most of my people do better work than I would do. 
Yes, I find mistakes.  But I'd just make other mistakes if I was doing it. Or I just wouldn't do it at all. 

And that's the kicker. 

There is a definite limit to what you can get done. Time.

2. You're right, it's easier to do it yourself. But this is short term thinking. 
You're selling your time for easy.  When do you ever do the easiest thing? 
You do the right thing!
The thing that will maximize your time/growth/profit down the road. 
So yes, it's easier to do it yourself once or twice. Once you get past 2-3 times of doing something, it's almost always better to have spent that time teaching someone else to do it. 

Time.

3. You're right. They might mess something up. I had a google ads person (who I trained) once spend $30,000 with almost zero return. It was rough. 
That was 14 years ago. She has run my google ads since then and spent (and made) millions.  She's definitely better at it than I am. 
I haven't touched a google ad in years and years. Time.
She made a mistake. A big mistake. 
She got better at it and has made up for it many times over.  

Time and money.

How to get better at delegating

What follows is the opposite of what most gurus will tell you.

Step 1 - Find one thing to hand off 
You don't need to make a huge list or track everything you do all day (wow...I would hate doing this). You just need to find one thing you're doing that is taking your time that you could teach someone else to do. 
One low value task. 

You're looking for anything that is lower value than your highest value task.
Lead generation
Data entry
Video editing
Social media content creation
Design
GHL admin
Shopify
SEO
Appointment setting

The worst advice people will give you here is to stick with what you're best at and delegate everything else. 

WRONG!

Delegate everything that isn't the highest value task. And if what you're best at isn't the highest value task, delegate it. 


Step 2 - Hire someone
It's really really hard to make delegation plans when you don't have someone to delegate to. It's hard even to think about delegating if you don't know who to give the work to. It's hard to make training when there's nobody to give that training to.

Hiring someone is a critical step towards getting better at delegating. 
You already figured out what you're going to hand off. You know the kind of person you need. Hire them. 

Your brain starts the delegating process as soon as you have someone to delegate to.

Step 3 - Make training
Yeah, I know you want to make training before you hire someone. <-- that's backward!
What if the person you find already knows how? You wasted your time making training. 
Make your training after you've hired someone. 

How?
A Loom video. It's the easiest way to teach someone to do what you want done. You could use Snagit or TinyTake or Screencast-o-matic or any screen capture system. 
Record yourself talking through the thing you're handing off. Show them what you're thinking. 

It doesn't have to be hours long. 
And it doesn't have to cover everything.
Start with a small piece. Then add more until you trust them. 

Step 4 - Teach context and the why
It's easiest to just teach steps. But teaching steps falls short when an odd situation comes up. 
Teach them the why behind the task.
Teach them the context around the task. 
Giving more lets them solve problems when they arise. 

Step 5 - Let go of perfection
Perfection prevents "done". 
Yes, you can expect someone to do something to a standard that you set.  

But perfection is rarely more important than just getting something done. 

Set a standard for success and help them get there. 

Why this works
1. Because the aim is to get time back

When delegation is aimed at adding something to your business, it adds to your load. The motivation isn't there. 
The aim of delegation at first needs to be to get time back.

2. Because you know what success looks like.
It's easy to hire someone to do something you know how to do.
It's easy to teach something you know how to do.
It's easy to bring on someone if you know what they're doing.
It's all hard if you don't know what you're doing.

3. Because you hired someone.
You HAVE to give them work to do. You HAVE to help them accomplish what you want done. Delegation required. 
And, you know who you're going to delegate to. It frees your brain.

When you're ready to get better at delegating, let me know what the one task is. Then head to OnlineJobs.ph and search to see if you can find a couple qualified people (you can).

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Monday, August 24, 2026

3 simple ways to predict if your VA is going to work out

You're worried you're not going to find the right person. 
You're worried you're going to waste time and money. 
You're worried the person you hire won't work out and you'll have to do it again. 

And you're right to worry...if you're recruiting a skill.

That's the mistake. 

You're not hiring a skill. You're hiring a person. And that person needs to fit your organization (which might just be you).

Here are the 3 simple ways to make sure that PERSON (not skill) works out:

#1 - DISC
Using a personality test helps make sure their personality is fit for the role.

Before figuring this out I did all kinds of stuff wrong. I'd post a job and get a bunch of applications. When looking at them I'd throw out all the ones who I didn't like and keep the ones I liked.  Well...naturally I liked the ones who were like me. 
Then I hire them and they don't work out. 

Duh.

I was hiring people who were like me.
And I'm bad at customer support and video editing and content writing and ...
I was hiring people who were set up for failure at the role I was hiring them for!

I'm good at programming so I hired a number of great programmers.

Once I figured DISC out, I started figuring out the appropriate DISC profile for the role, then matching applicants based on their DISC profile. I stopped hiring all high D people (people who were like me) and started hiring people whose personalities fit the role. 

My success rate went way up. 

Our AI's at OnlineJobs.ph are instructed to match DISC personality to the role when telling you who the right people are. 


#2 - Current employment status

Conventional wisdom says that all the great people are already hired. 

Not true in the Philippines. 

I don't want to hire someone working 2 jobs. It's rarely what you think it's going to be. I want someone dedicated to me and I try to pay people so they don't have to have a second job. 

So when I hire one of the first things I do is look at their resume and see what their most recent experience entry is. 
Does it say "January 2025 - Present"?

Meaning, they're currently working somewhere else. 

I pass on people who are currently employed. 

It's not foolproof...but it's a good indicator. 

#3 - The question

"Tell me about a time you didn't understand what your boss wanted. What did you do? And, if you don't have a time, what would you do?"

The #1 problem people run into is a VA disappearing. And disappearing usually happens because of a communication breakdown. Not understanding each other. 

In your culture, the speaker is the one who is responsible for making sure the listener understands.  Obvious, right?

This is why you say "Wait...I don't understand...do you mean...?"

In the Philippines it's the opposite.  It's the listeners job, or the employees job, to understand what is being said.  It's assumed that the employer has said everything they need to and that what they said is correct. It's the VA's job to understand. 

It's messed up.  I know. 

So one of the things I'm looking for is someone willing to ask questions and willing to question me. 
Someone who isn't just telling me what I want to hear.  

If someone is willing to push back. Willing to question. Willing to say "Wait, what you said doesn't make sense." That person is likely to work out. 

Another way I've accomplished this is by asking them to do something silly or absurd.  

Attach a photo of a pink Cadillac to your response.  

If they do, fine.
If they don't, bad.
If they question it ("You asked for something weird, why?") GREAT!

Finding great people isn't hard. And if you do some simple things, they're very likely to work out. 

John
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