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List the tasks you want handed over, the tools they live in, and the hours you need covered. Mira AI drafts an advert and a scorecard from that, your role goes out to our candidate community, and each application is ranked the moment it lands. Run a short paid trial with the shortlist on real work, then Wisemonk employs whoever you choose.

Virtual assistance is one of the most affordable roles to staff from India, which is why the market is so large. General assistants sit at the accessible end, specialised and executive assistants cost more because judgement and domain knowledge are rarer, and online business managers are priced closer to operations roles. Open the role and we will check your band against live India payroll data.

A virtual assistant handles tasks you define: scheduling, inbox, data entry, research. An executive assistant handles a person, exercising discretion on their behalf and making calls they would have made themselves. The pay difference reflects the judgement gap. Hiring a general VA and expecting executive-level discretion is the most common disappointment in this category.

Agencies suit sporadic, low-volume needs and swap people freely, which is convenient until the person who learned your business leaves. A full-time employed VA accumulates the context that makes the role valuable and stays. If you have more than a couple of hours of work a day, an employed assistant almost always works out cheaper and far less repetitive.

Yes, and many do exactly that. Assistants routinely work offset shifts to cover a US or UK business day, and much of the work is asynchronous anyway. Agree upfront which hours must be live, for calls and same-day turnarounds, and which tasks can simply be done by the time you wake up.

Stage access rather than granting everything at once, use delegation features so nobody shares your password, and keep sensitive accounts separate at first. Background checks are completed before the start date and confidentiality terms sit in the contract Wisemonk holds. Trust with an assistant is built the same way it is in an office, just with the access controls made explicit.

Anything that needs a licensed professional, such as legal or tax advice, and anything where a mistake is expensive and irreversible before trust is established, such as unrestricted access to bank payments. Start with scheduling, inbox, research and admin, and expand into higher-stakes work as the person proves themselves, which good ones do quickly.

No. Wisemonk becomes the legal employer of record, holds the contract and runs monthly payroll with provident fund, gratuity, ESI and tax withholding handled. Your assistant works to your hours and your priorities. If you already run an Indian entity, the assistant can sit on that payroll instead.

Pay them for a morning of real tasks: triage a sample inbox, book a mock trip with constraints, and turn a messy set of notes into a tidy document. You learn more about judgement, communication and speed from three real tasks than from an hour of interview questions about strengths and weaknesses.

Roughly six years and up, and the marker is anticipation rather than execution. A senior assistant sees the meeting that should be moved before you do, drafts the reply you were going to write, and protects your time without being asked. At that level the role shades into executive assistance or business management, and notice runs 30 to 60 days.