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Sunday, 5th September 2010You are in: Home > News > A virtual winner for Scotland
A virtual winner for Scotland
A Glasgow business woman is poised for international recognition after reaching the final stages of a search to find the country’s best Personal Assistant.
Caroline Melville from the company Virtually Sorted is one of 12 finalists in Desk Demon’s search for the country’s best PA. Her achievement is impressive as not only does she work for several people at the same time, she also rarely sets foot in their office.
Caroline is one of a growing number of Virtual Assistants who run administration of a business remotely. However Caroline is the only virtual assistant to be nominated for the Desk Demon award in both the UK and the US competition.
She said: “It is true that there are a growing number of us but considering this is such a young industry it is a real honour to be nominated at all for the title of The Best PA. But the fact that I was the only virtual PA in the UK and the US to be nominated shows, once again, that Scotland can be in the running when it comes to understanding and utilising technology for business development.”
Caroline runs Virtually Sorted, a team of admin workers providing vital back up for up to 40 different clients and dealing with everything from audio typing, market research, call answering, general PA duties, and conference organisation. No two days for the 10 virtual assistants are ever the same and on one occasion they had to arrange for the Easter Bunny to deliver eggs to a client at 6am.
“We have completed most general secretarial type jobs remotely, and although we the we haven’t quite mastered virtual coffee, I don't suppose that is too far down the road as we can already send coffee vouchers for Starbucks,” said Caroline.
Desk Demon asked for nominations each month throughout last year. If successful Melville will not only earn the title of best PA but also an award of £10,000. To vote in the competition or to find out more about the awards log on to http://www.deskdemon.com/pages/uk/awards2007/index">
It is no surprise for Melville to be ahead of the game. As one of the UK’s first VAs she helped to establish the Society of Virtual Assistants offering free support and advice to new VAs. It now has more than 500 members across the UK.
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