Go for Go Team! - Founder Matt Kesby Explains the Big Change

 

Australian entrepreneur Matt Kesby, who founded Go Virtual Assistants (GO-VA) in 2014, talks about why GO-VA is rebranding to GO TEAM in 2022.

Our new name, GoTeam, really brings forward the definition of who we are.

GO Teams are the ones people choose first to solve problems and deliver results.

At the start, the business worked mainly with virtual assistants.

We have grown and gained depth range since then. We are accountants, software developers, admin gurus, operations ninjas, 3D drafters, engineers, leaders, parents, visionaries, executors, results winners.

We GO after exceptional results and lean on our values to deliver them.!

The core of what we do hasn’t changed.

We find the top talent in the field so that all business owners can have the opportunity to outsource tasks effectively—without the high costs of setting up a business abroad. Or the loss of control that full outsourcing triggers.

In 2021, we became a Great Place to Work certified organization on our first attempt!

Our team members and the clients whose businesses we help scale benefit from Fiona’s deep experience (more than 20 years) in recruitment and her obsession with getting the culture right.

Combine that with Matt’s experience as an execution practice leader for FranklinCovey, a global leader in effectiveness training and consulting in strategy and execution —plus his obsession with technology.

And what you’ve got is an engaged, highly skilled, and always-learning team that delivers exceptional results; that will GO above and beyond to get exceptional things done.

We believe in the power of People + Technology.

We believe in being champions for creating remarkable progress.

We are your GO Team!

GO Virtual Assistants (GO-VA) Is A Great Place to Work-Certified workplace!

Our tribe has spoken. We are a Great Place to Work-Certified workplace! ⠀⠀⠀⠀

These past 18 months, the whole idea of a “workplace” radically changed. What hasn’t changed is the reminder to put people first.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

The need to keep on building a kind and caring culture, where people get the support they need to achieve exceptional results. Where people feel safe.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Ninety-five percent of the tribe agreed: “When you join the company, you feel welcome.” 

As for this statement— “I am treated as a full member regardless of my position” —93 percent agreed!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Those are just two of the many insights we gained from the Great Place to Work team. We thank them for recognizing our high-trust, high-performance work culture, and for inspiring us to do even more. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

And thank you so much to the entire GO-VA tribe.

You won this, simply by showing up and giving each day’s challenges the best you are capable of. You are truly remarkable, tribe. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

GO-VA's Got Talent Season 5 Solo Category: Bon Plays the Theme from “Detective Conan"

Our GO-VA colleague Bon played the theme from an anime series that has been running non-stop for 21 years now. Bon works as the HR Administrator of an Australian engineering business (and has the commitment to work on his amazing guitar skills during his free time.)

Copyright Disclaimer:

GO-VA's Got Talent is an annual free-to-enter competition for Go Virtual Assistants and Global Office team members. GO-VA derives no commercial benefit from hosting this event nor from uploading the program excerpts here. Our team members' use of certain songs falls within YouTube's fair use guidelines. 

About GO Virtual Assistants (GO-VA)

GO-VA Inc. is a registered Australian-Filipino owned company growing in the heart of Cebu City, Philippines. Situated in an IT complex with modern facilities, GO-VA's Managed Operations & Streamlined Services provides scalable opportunities that spell sustainability, growth, and success for any business venture. As your offshore workforce, GO-VA's goal is to create winnable games and strategies across all the work that we do, knowing that your success is our long-term fulfillment. 

GO-VA helps Australian, NZ, US, and UK businesses to increase revenue, reduce costs, and scale through outsourced offshoring.

If you need to build or expand your virtual assistant team, we can help you. Schedule a meeting with us: https://calendly.com/klein-serrano

Send your resume to careers@go-va.com.au or create your profile here: https://go-va.com.ph. Come join our tribe!

AU (+61) 2 7227 8809 

US (+1) 302 207 2767 

PH (+63) 32 410 7523

9th Floor, i1 Bldg, Jose Maria del Mar Street, IT Park, Apas

Cebu City, Philippines 6000

Website: http://www.go-va.com.au

Blog: https://blog.go-va.com.au

sales@go-va.com.au

GO-VA's Got Talent Season 5 Solo Category Second Place: Marjorie Performs "How Far I’ll Go"

One of the solo category winners in GO-VA’s Got Talent Season 5 was also one of our Values Awardees from May this year. Marjorie works as a Contract Admin for an Australian client that helps other businesses get energy-saving equipment, such as solar panels.

In this year's competition, she performed her favorite song from the 2016 hit “Moana”. 

Copyright Disclaimer:

GO-VA's Got Talent is an annual free-to-enter competition for Go Virtual Assistants and Global Office team members. GO-VA derives no commercial benefit from hosting this event nor from uploading the program excerpts here. Our team members' use of certain songs falls within YouTube's fair use guidelines. 

About GO Virtual Assistants (GO-VA)

GO-VA Inc. is a registered Australian-Filipino owned company growing in the heart of Cebu City, Philippines. Situated in an IT complex with modern facilities, GO-VA's Managed Operations & Streamlined Services provides scalable opportunities that spell sustainability, growth, and success for any business venture. As your offshore workforce, GO-VA's goal is to create winnable games and strategies across all the work that we do, knowing that your success is our long-term fulfillment. 

GO-VA helps Australian, NZ, US, and UK businesses to increase revenue, reduce costs, and scale through outsourced offshoring.

If you need to build or expand your virtual assistant team, we can help you. Schedule a meeting with us: https://calendly.com/klein-serrano

Send your resume to careers@go-va.com.au or create your profile here: https://go-va.com.ph. Come join our tribe!

AU (+61) 2 7227 8809 

US (+1) 302 207 2767 

PH (+63) 32 410 7523

9th Floor, i1 Bldg, Jose Maria del Mar Street, IT Park, Apas

Cebu City, Philippines 6000

Website: http://www.go-va.com.au

Blog: https://blog.go-va.com.au

sales@go-va.com.au

GO-VA's Got Talent Season 5 Solo Category Champion: Leani Sings "Try Everything"

 

Admin Support Virtual Assistant Leani won one of the awards in GO-VA’s Got Talent Season 3: The Eighties, when she sang the Journey hit “Don’t Stop Believin’.” That was in 2019. This year, she won first prize in the solo category.

Here is her cover of a song that Shakira recorded for the 2016 movie “Zootopia.” 

Copyright Disclaimer:

GO-VA's Got Talent is an annual free-to-enter competition for Go Virtual Assistants and Global Office team members. GO-VA derives no commercial benefit from hosting this event nor from uploading the program excerpts here. Our team members' use of certain songs falls within YouTube's fair use guidelines. 

About GO Virtual Assistants (GO-VA)

GO-VA Inc. is a registered Australian-Filipino owned company growing in the heart of Cebu City, Philippines. Situated in an IT complex with modern facilities, GO-VA's Managed Operations & Streamlined Services provides scalable opportunities that spell sustainability, growth, and success for any business venture. As your offshore workforce, GO-VA's goal is to create winnable games and strategies across all the work that we do, knowing that your success is our long-term fulfillment. 

GO-VA helps Australian, NZ, US, and UK businesses to increase revenue, reduce costs, and scale through outsourced offshoring.

If you need to build or expand your virtual assistant team, we can help you. Schedule a meeting with us: https://calendly.com/klein-serrano

Send your resume to careers@go-va.com.au or create your profile here: https://go-va.com.ph. Come join our tribe!

AU (+61) 2 7227 8809 

US (+1) 302 207 2767 

PH (+63) 32 410 7523

9th Floor, i1 Bldg, Jose Maria del Mar Street, IT Park, Apas

Cebu City, Philippines 6000

Website: http://www.go-va.com.au

Blog: https://blog.go-va.com.au

sales@go-va.com.au

How To Outsource For Logistics Business

If you’re in the logistics, transportation, and supply chain management business, you know just how rapidly new opportunities surfaced in 2020, as people’s buying priorities and habits changed. You want to bring your costs down so you can invest more resources on digital transformation—on getting essential goods faster to other businesses and consumers. Automation is one essential step. Outsourcing offshore, including support roles such as customer service, bookkeeping, and marketing, is another. We are a managed operations provider that can find you the skills your business needs to scale. Some of these skills may not be specific to the logistics industry, yet are necessary so you can boost your company’s value propositions, without risking burnout for yourself or your onshore team.

LEARN How To Outsource For Logistics Business

How To Outsource For Food and Beverages Business

This year, every food and beverage business needed to learn quickly how to serve customers online, if they hadn’t done so before. Attention shifted from the quality of in-store experiences, to making purchases and payments easier and safer. The ability to deliver fast became a matter of business survival. Yet this year has also opened tremendous possibilities for F&B businesses. Working with a virtual assistant will help F&B businesses make the most of these emerging opportunities

LEARN How To Outsource For Food and Beverages Business

How To Build A Successful Offshore Team For Energy

 

Worldwide, COVID-19 is compelling businesses to accelerate digital transformation programs. The energy and electricity industry is no exception. What makes the challenge more complex is a gap in industry-specific skills, particularly in engineering, that has kept growing in recent years. Here’s where we can help. Go Virtual Assistants is an Australian-led managed operations business that can find you the engineers, estimators, procurement assistants, marketing assistants, or general virtual assistants your business needs now.

LEARN How To Build A Successful Offshore Team For Energy

Self-Care September

We love this idea from the international Action for Happiness charity: This year, let’s celebrate Self-Care September! Here are some of their tips for how we can be kinder toward ourselves and to others.

We don’t even have to wait for September to start. Make some time for self-care today, Tribe! You deserve it.

Health Check: The Benefits of Running

 

GO-VA is a huge supporter of health and wellness. Health plays a very important role in work. Therefore in line with this, GO-VA supported our registered runners by giving them a running jersey.

LEARN more about Benefits of Running

GO-VA and Global Office Software Tester - Charlyn

Charlyn joined the GO-VA and Global Office tribe this month as a Software Tester for one of our Australian clients, a tech business that provides payment and property management platforms, among others.

Charlyn loves doing volunteer work and the Golden Rule, and we’re grateful she decided to start a more remarkable career with us!

If you work in software development like Charlyn does, we do have plenty of open opportunities for you. For instance, we’re looking for 4 Full Stack Engineers with at least 5 years of experience building large-scale software applications. Apply for that role here:

How To Outsource For Insurance Business

 

Demand for insurance is rising amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While 2020 was a difficult year, as it was for most other industries, the outlook for insurance in 2021 and beyond is upbeat. For insurance brokers, the challenge will be to develop and distribute products that keep up with customers’ needs and choices, which changed dramatically this year. You’ll need to commit more to developing new products, connecting with customers in the channels they prefer, and reaching out to new markets. We can help you win back the time and energy all that will require and, at the same time, achieve the operational and cost efficiencies your insurance business needs. Highly skilled virtual assistants can take care of your accounting and payroll, claims processing, data entry and processing, customer success, and tech support needs.

LEARN more about How To Outsource For Insurance Business

Hiring: Bookkeeper with Xero Software Experience - Go Virtual Assistants (GO-VA)

• Company: Go Virtual Assistants (GO-VA)
• Full Time
• Work From Home Job / Role
• Monthly Salary: PHP 20,000.00
• Office Location: Cebu, Philippines
• Benefits: Medical, Miscellaneous allowance, Dental, Vision, Freebies/Outings/Perks/ Referral Bonus

We have an Australian client that supports accounting and bookkeeping businesses. They now need a Bookkeeper with Xero software experience to join their team in Cebu! 👨‍💼🗃️🧮

So, if you have an accounting background and excellent communication skills, and would like competitive pay and great benefits, apply for this work-from-home role here: 

APPLY For Bookkeeper with Xero Software Experience

GO-VA and Global Office Electrical Estimator - Jerbson

 

Our new GO-VA and Global Office teammate Jerbson’s favorite quote is the secret to staying power.

Jerbson joined the tribe in August as an Electrical Estimator for a U.S. client that supplies electrical, security, and smart home technologies to home builders. They’ve taken care of more than 80,000 homes in 14 years! (You could say their work is lit.)

Welcome to the Tribe, Jerbson! 🙌🙌🙌

If you’re in engineering like Jerbson, we have an opportunity for you! Another U.S. client in the precision CNC machining business needs a Quote Engineer with Sales Admin experience. 

Apply for that work-from-home opportunity here and come join our Tribe!

Apply For Electrical Estimator

What Is Confidence?

As defined by Mel Robbins, “Confidence is a skill that is built over the years by practicing acts of everyday courage“. Fiona wrapped up the CEO presentation by sharing steps on How to Gain Confidence.

There are 12 steps to build confidence that Fiona practices every day. I’ll quickly run down these steps and will discuss them thoroughly in a separate blog. These are:

• Know Your Purpose
• Take Care of Yourself
• Dress Well
• Believe in Yourself
• Embrace Learning
• Help Others
• Practice Gratitude
• Visualization – or picture the end in mind
• Do one thing every day that scares you
• What other people think of you is none of your business
• Create a success board
• Failure is your friend

Keep practicing these steps until it becomes a habit. Always remember that GO-VA believes in you!

LEARN more about Confidence

How To Build A Successful Offshore Team For Real Estate

Real property is ripe for reinvention. All over the world, developers are now compelled to make homes, offices, hospitals, and other shared public spaces both safer and more sustainable. Investors and end-users need all their transactions with property developers and managers to be fully digital. How are you reinventing your real property business? Let’s find you the skilled Virtual Assistants to help you get more done. Outsource to win with Global Office PH. Home of Your Global Office

LEARN more about Offshore Team For Real Estate

Hiring: Shopify Admin and Automation - Go Virtual Assistants (GO-VA)

• Company: Go Virtual Assistants (GO-VA)
• Full Time
• Work From Home Job / Role
• Monthly Salary: PHP 45,000.00
• Office Location: Cebu, Philippines
• Benefits: Medical, Miscellaneous allowance, Dental, Vision, Freebies/Outings/Perks/ Referral Bonus

Here’s an opportunity for someone who’s well-versed in Shopify and other ecommerce platforms. A solid grasp of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/JQuery is required, as well as the ability to install and customize Shopify themes.

One of our Australian clients is determined to make ethical beauty and wellness more mainstream. She’s seeking a Shopify Admin and Automation Specialist to start her team in Cebu. 👨‍💻🖥️👓

We’re offering up to P45K and great benefits for this work-from-home opportunity on the mid-shift. Benefits include free HMO coverage for each team member and a dependent, starting on the first day at work. Apply for this opportunity here:

Apply For Shopify Admin and Automation

How To Outsource For Construction and Engineering Companies

 

Making businesses stronger and worksites safer is a key challenge for construction and engineering companies in the midst of COVID-19.

Fortunately, there’s technology to support increased trainingーas well as connect your business with highly qualified practitioners.

Your business can get more done without driving costs up to unsustainable levels or overwhelming your core team. Part of the solution will be to outsource and to bring greater digital capabilities into your business.

With so many challenges to navigateーsupply chain disruptions, delays in permits, a greater need for safety and health precautions in job sitesーit is time to adopt bold solutions you haven’t tried before.

Learn More How To Build A Successful Offshore Team For Construction and Engineering

Hiring: Social Media Coordinator

 Full Time

Work From Home Job / Role

Monthly Salary: PHP 45,000.00

Office Location: Cebu, Philippines

Benefits: Medical, Miscellaneous allowance, Dental, Vision, Freebies/Outings/Perks/ Referral Bonus

You love creating and managing social media marketing campaigns. You pay attention to the details, have a positive attitude, and strong project management skills.

An entrepreneur who’s driven to make ethical beauty and wellness products is seeking a Social Media Coordinator. We’re offering up to P45K and great benefits (free HMO for you and a loved one, starting on Day 1) for this work-from-home opportunity.

Apply For Social Media Coordinator

How To Outsource Jobs in Education / School Business

 

Hire Virtual Assistants For Your Education & Training Ventures

If you’re in the education and learning and development community, the opportunities that have emerged amid the COVID-19 pandemic are game-changing.

More agile institutions and businesses found ways to deliver course materials, instruction, and support services online. Amid lockdowns, they figured out how to reach and serve new communities from other parts of the globe.

And there’s more to do.

• providing friendly and professional customer relationship support to your students and training participants;
• performing SEO, content creation, and other digital marketing tasks;
• taking care of your web development and maintenance;
• serving as teaching assistants or online tutors;
• designing and building apps; and
• providing administrative, data entry, financial services, and other support.

Get more done and embrace the many opportunities for growth in education and learning and development. We’d love to help you find the Virtual Assistants who’ll provide the exceptional support your business needs.

Learn more about Virtual Assistants For Your Education & Training Ventures