Your Personal Virtual Assistant
Juggling personal life admin while trying to relax in your free time can be exhausting. Bruntwork’s Personal Virtual Assistants specialize in taking on life’s daily hassles – from scheduling appointments to paying bills to managing travel coordination. Our teams become trusted partners that integrate seamlessly into your personal world across devices. We provide dedicated account management, strict QA protocols and complete transparency too. And since our staff are offshore talent, costs are affordable. Reclaim your personal life with an experienced offshore Personal Virtual Assistant from Bruntwork.
Reclaim Your Time & Mental Bandwidth
Our Personal Virtual Assistants eliminate life admin tasks that drain your bandwidth – bill payments, calendar scheduling, hotel booking, daily email triage and more. We customize fully around your household needs, situations, tools and existing providers to maximize convenience. With offshore teams, complete visibility into their work and inclusion of oversight, we make outsourced personal assistance simple and cost-effective.
Household Management & Bill Pay
Our Personal Virtual Assistants take charge of your household management and bill payments, ensuring all your utilities and services are up-to-date. They handle transactions securely, giving you peace of mind and more time to enjoy your personal life.
Appointment Scheduling
Effortlessly manage your calendar with our assistants who schedule appointments, reminders, and events, tailoring their support to fit your personal and professional life seamlessly, ensuring you never miss an important date again.
Travel Coordination
Plan your trips with ease as our assistants handle all aspects of travel coordination, from booking flights to securing accommodations, making travel planning stress-free and efficient.
Document Formatting & Review
Our assistants help in formatting and reviewing documents, ensuring your personal and professional documents are polished and accurate, saving you time on tedious editing tasks.
Research Assistance
Whether it’s market research for a personal project or finding the best products, our assistants provide thorough research support, delivering detailed information to help you make informed decisions.
Content Creation
From blog posts to personal correspondence, our assistants craft high-quality content tailored to your needs, enhancing your personal and online presence with engaging and thoughtful material.
Wardrobe Organization
Our assistants offer virtual wardrobe organization advice, helping you manage your clothing items and style preferences, ensuring your wardrobe is always up-to-date and suited to your lifestyle.
Gift Purchasing & Tracking
Never miss a special occasion with our gift purchasing and tracking services. Our assistants find and order thoughtful gifts, tracking deliveries to ensure they arrive on time.
Event Planning & Management
Turn your event ideas into reality with our assistants who manage all aspects of event planning, from venue selection to guest management, ensuring your events are memorable and seamlessly executed.
Why Choose BruntWork Virtual Assistants?
HIPAA Compliant and data sensitivity-trained agents
$ No set up fees
(recruiting is free).
Free to change your staff
if you need to.
Only pay an hourly rate which includes computer, internet and all fees.
24/7 operation
(we can handle global businesses).
No lock in contracts.
How to Hire a Virtual Assistant?
Say goodbye to sifting through countless profiles and unverified freelancers on generic platforms.
We simplify the process of offshore staffing, ensuring you’re matched with the ideal virtual assistant tailored to your practice’s unique needs.
Discovery Call
We know that every business is different which is why we take the time to understand your goals and resourcing requirements with a one-on-one Discovery Call, providing consultation and advice on getting the most out of your offshore team.
Candidate Screening and Testing
Based on your requirements, BruntWork’s recruitment team sources and selects for a shortlist of the top qualified candidates. We then perform a technical check of their computer and internet connection, as well as require the candidate to pass standardised English language, logic and numeric aptitude tests.
Client Interview and Testing
Only once we’ve screened and shortlisted the most suitable candidates will we set up a video call for you to interview.
Our entire recruitment process is 100% free with no obligations – we only charge you once agents have started working and for the tracked hours they work
Cultural Awareness Training
We provide a full day training session to ensure awareness of Western communication styles, including working with customers in countries such as in Australia, the US, Canada and the UK.
Timesheet Tracked Hourly Billing
BruntWork’s Client Services Team will track hours and provide you with fortnightly summaries of timesheets for your reference. You are only billed for the hours agents have logged to work.
Admin & Account Management
We tally up the total timesheet hours and send you one simple invoice for the total time worked each month.
Frequently Asked Questions
From entrepreneurs to globally listed companies, we’re helping scale & deliver quality labour solutions on time and well below the equivalent cost of hiring locally.
A Personal Virtual Assistant can handle a wide array of tasks, from managing household bills, scheduling appointments, coordinating travel plans, to content creation and event planning, offering comprehensive support tailored to your personal needs.
We provide highly customized support, tailoring our Personal Virtual Assistant services to align with your specific preferences, situations, and tool usage, ensuring our assistance perfectly fits your lifestyle.
Our commitment to security and privacy involves strict protocols and encryption, ensuring your personal data is protected. Our assistants also sign NDAs to safeguard all information you share.
Yes, flexibility is key to our services. You can switch your dedicated Personal Virtual Assistant if your needs change or you require different expertise, ensuring you always have the best match.
We offer tailored support to meet the unique needs of each host, from individual property management to portfolio optimization, ensuring strategies align with your specific goals and market conditions.
Outsourcing has been around for decades, however companies are now finding since Covid-19 that the need to have local staff has diminished significantly. If you are thinking about reducing operational cost in your business and improving efficiency, outsourcing could be perfect for your business. Outsourcing typically relates to the process of hiring your full or part-time employees and the Philippines is considered the leading country for outsourcing with incredibly high rates of education, an amazing, hard working culture and well established infrastructure for remote teams. BruntWork helps small and large companies establish remote teams in record time and has large clients who are ASX and NASDAQ listed (as well as many smaller ones). Let us help you outsource to the Philippines and find the perfect employee to fit your business.
We can do part time, or we can place full time Virtual Assistants that will work exclusively for you (or part time if you prefer). The assistants are hand-picked for you based on your requirements. For your company, it will be the same person throughout your journey so that you can build rapport and learn the needs of your business
Great english, hard working attitude, university education and a friendly demeanour are the main qualities we look for. We also ensure they have a quiet space to work in, high spec computer and access to cloud-based technologies.
Virtual assistant services include everything you might possibly dream of. One of the most important qualities we look for is time management skills so we can ensure your tasks are completed quickly with excellent communication skills (both verbal and written). Before we undertake our recruitment process we check knowledge of the tools you use most commonly.
What your VA can do is limited only by your imagination and capacity to train. Some VAs we’ve placed manage calendars and inboxes, undertake research and manage LinkedIn profiles for lead generation. They can create spreadsheets, update, and audit websites, build and optimise online product listings. Our VAs are trained to ensure that communication with your customers is timely and professional. Apart from this, if you have any other need, you can tell them and they make sure to get the work done for you.
There are so many benefits to outsourcing virtual assistants to the Philippines. Firstly Filipinos love virtual assistant work, as it allows them to work from home, avoid the traffic and work a day shift which is the preferred mode of employment in the Philippines. We find that virtual assistants hired by BruntWork report high levels of employee satisfaction and the benefit to you are substantial cost savings that can support your business expansion.
One understated benefit is the mental freedom associated with ceasing tasks that suck your creativity. With this new mental clarify, you can dream up new ideas to help your business expand and run more efficiently.
14 days is the average time it takes for BruntWork to post a job ad, vet candidates, place them through extensive interviews and place them in your team. We take pride in making sure that we get the perfect fit of employees to your business.
Our recruitment process is not dissimilar to an on-shore recruitment process except our labour pool is 5x bigger than your labour pool on-shore. The Philippines has over 100m population, so for every role we advertise, expect 5x the number of applicants. But don’t worry, we take care of all the hard work for you, vetting candidates for English, aptitude and skills and surface only those candidates that we expect are going to perform well for you and your company. We’ll ask you to provide a brief with specifics about your business needs, we’ll use that as the basis to surface relevant clients and then we’ll shortlist the best for an interview with you. If you prefer, you can conduct the final interview. For whatever reason if a candidate doesn’t work out, we’ll do the hard work of exiting them and replacing them with a better candidate.
Yes, all our assistants sign non-disclosure agreements to ensure the confidentiality of your personal and professional information, offering you peace of mind regarding the privacy of your data.
Our Personal Virtual Assistants come with dedicated management and oversight, ensuring high-quality, consistent support. Regular performance reviews and feedback mechanisms ensure our services meet your expectations.
Our assistants are proficient in a wide range of tools and systems, from common productivity software to specialized applications, ensuring they can adapt to and efficiently manage the tools you already use and prefer.
Our talent acquisition team works checks in with candidates and we have technology to ensure that your employees start work at the designated time and clock off when you require so you don’t pay more. BruntWork screen and interview candidates based on your requirements and choose the perfect candidate suitable for your business. KPIs are something you set up with the hired employee once they are on board.
Yes, we can help you outsource part-time employees for your business or specific campaigns. Our minimum is 20 hours per week.
Yes, candidates will be informed of your business’s preferred work hours. Filipino employees are flexible and can work within the time your business requires. Night shift is a popular working schedule in the Philippines due to the number of US clients that utilise the Philippines for back-office roles so we can certainly place employees in your team to work overnight (and public holidays too with a loading!)
We do it on your behalf. If employee(s) is not performing or reaching your KPIs, let us know and we’ll help performance manage them or terminate and replace them.
We bill out of Australia and take care of payroll as part of our service at no extra cost.
Our staff are “work from home” however if you have sensitive data we can implement security measures to make sure your data is private and secure, including remote desktop solutions. We take copies of employees drivers licence, passport or other identifying information so that if something happens, we have full recourse to pursue them for damage that occurs to your business (although this has never happened to us before). We can require an NDA before onboarding based on your preference. We are fully compliant and certified to ISO 27001.
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Real World Client Testimonials
Need 50 heads in 14 days? An overhaul of your digital marketing? Data analysts, telemarketers? Hear about the BruntWork experience direct from our clients themselves.
Anthony Spon-Smith, Chief Executive Officer
Coco Republic
"Coco Republic offers beautifully crafted furniture to clients globally. As a multi-jurisdictional retailer, outstanding service to our clients is at the heart of everything we do. We approached BruntWork primarily for customer support and they have been outstanding at finding the best recruits to operate around the clock, at the lowest cost possible with speed unparalleled in the industry."
Manal Iqbal, Chief Executive Officer
Buddy Bet
Buddy Bet is a 'world first' social network where you can bet on almost anything. From sports to entertainment and the downright ridiculous, you can bet on almost anything with Buddybet. "Bruntwork has been instrumental in helping us build a strong, remote, global workforce to achieve success. We have thrown several tasks at them and they have delivered constantly. We highly recommend their services."
Shanya Suppasiritad, Chief Executive Officer
RNTR
Elevate your look with Rntr.'s curated selection and hit refresh whenever you choose. "BruntWork's team has allowed us to scale our digital campaigns far more quickly and cost-effectively than local agencies. They have been the perfect solution for us as an early stage startup - they were quick to move and implement to test new campaigns, allowing us to learn quick and pivot if we need to. "
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