Remote Intern / Remote Apprentice Recruitment and Placement Service
Do you want to grow your business? But you lack the financial resources for hiring a gig or freelance worker on your own?
We can help. Search Remotely and The Remote Internship, to leading remote job search platforms have joined together to offer a new recruitment and placement service catered to start-ups, small businesses and entrepreneurs.
We are dedicated to providing easy and rapid online access to small business employers who need work done, but lack the budgetary resources to hire a freelancer, gig worker, part-time or full-time staffer to handle administrative tasks that can be handled virtually.
Our platform allows small businesses, or intern / apprentice hosts to register their internship / apprenticeship project online in less than three minutes. We will handle the rest.
Our platform connects small businesses to virtual assistant / interns and apprentices for a win/win experience.
Internship pathway
- We place interns with a small business for a 6 week UNPAID remote internship.
- The initial placement is extendable to an additional 6 weeks UNPAID if mutually agreed upon. This takes the total unpaid internship time to the industry standard of (12 weeks, 1 day per week).
- You are welcome and encouraged to hire your intern in a paid position at any point.
We ensure a balanced exchange and provide an equitable framework and experience for both parties, and we empower interns to advocate for themselves.
Cost to the Intern: Nothing
Cost to the Small Business ‘Host’: $175 Placement Fee
After receipt of the placement fee, the small business host is then promptly assigned the next The Remote Internship / Search Remotely remote intern job applicant on the list. This is to provide unbiased work experience access to our two platforms. Neither the intern or the host can choose who their placements. We connect you (small business) and the intern via email (with some reminders on how it works, and some handy next steps), and you take it from there. *We are available in the background for support.
Suggested Virtual Assistant Tasks to Delegate to a Remote Apprentice / Remote Intern
Data Entry, Accounting, Finance and Sales
- Collecting research, survey and focus group data
- Updating data for spreadsheets into data analytics programs (Excel, Quickbooks, etc)
- Gathering digital receipts for end-of-year tax filings
- Gathering sales leads
- Making sales calls
- Updating customer contact lists
Customer Service and Order Fulfillment
- Making customer service and marketing phone calls
- Fulfilling customer orders from online stores and platforms (Shopify, Etsy, Ebay)
- Inventorying items
Website Development and Maintenance
- Assisting in building website presence
- Checking website pages for errors
- Updating website pages
Social Media Marketing, Special Event Support
- Drafting and curating content for blogs, EDMs, social media, and more
- Research for marketing or communications activity
- Copywriting and proofreading
- Drafting press releases and media alerts
- Finalizing Special Event RSVP lists
- Following up with vendors, attendees
Graphic Arts & Digital Design
- Creating visual assets for digital communication in Canva
- Finding media contacts and creating media contact lists
- Digital event support
- Brainstorming PR ideas
Background: Remote Intern Placed Win: Win for All !
This program was developed after our successful and widely acclaimed experience training an remote intern we placed at our company (Search Remotely) to assist us with some backlogged administrative, marketing and Excel spreadsheet tasks.
After we provided initial training, held Zoom meetings to explain performance expectations and demonstrated business processes and procedures, the intern was hired. We paid her a nominal fee. At the conclusion of her four week internship, she was snapped up by one of our competitors, earning a respectable salary. She left our program equipped with new ‘in demand’ and marketable skills, and highly visible reference. She was very happy and excited to start / re-start her professional career.
It was a WIN/WIN situation has we were able to clear up tasks that had been outstanding for a very long time. Her immediate availability, willingness to learn new business and computer applications, and nominal salary requirements was definitely a win for us.
You can read more about her story here.
Search Remotely: Virtual Assistant / Remote Intern / Apprentice
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