After seven years as the benefits manager for a large international software company, I began to search for a way to achieve more balance in my life. Juggling the demands of a management position within a large corporation and those of a wife and mother of three young children had grown very difficult. Assist U offers a rigorous 250-hour training and certification program which perpares personal, administrative and executive assistants to work in the virtual world. Virtual assistance is a relatively new profession that can best be described as the art of long-term partnering with a client in order to provide the highest quality support services without needing to be physically present in the client's office. Virtual assistance works because of the immediacy and effectiveness of today's technology.
Clients pay only for the eservices they use, so there is no down time.
Most clients work directly from their home offices, so partnering with a virtual assistant means they do not have to share their work space or provide equipment, training, furniture, benefits or any of the associated costs that come with hiring an employee. Rosenthal was one of Dougherty's first clients. A virtual assistant might just be the solution you are looking for. Azriela Jaffe specializes in business and workplace issues. Copyright Sunday Patriot-News 2001.