Become an invaluable resource from your own home
A Virtual Assistant (VA) can often be a saviour to a sole trader or small business. When it’s essential to keep overheads as low as possible, using the services of a Virtual Assistant is one of the most sensible decisions a businessperson might make.
Working for yourself as a Virtual Assistant offers a unique and varied career opportunity. You’ll be your own boss, so you’ll be able to set your working patterns as you wish.
Many businesses don’t need a full-time PA or Administrator, so rather than pay out a monthly salary, they will often use the services of a VA on an ‘as and when’ basis and simply pay for what they need.
The areas where you may support a business are varied. You might help them deal with their admin and general office workload, manage their social media accounts, or maintain their financial records. It all depends on what they need. This offers a great variety to keep your days exciting and interesting. With our flexible method of study available, you can study this diploma whenever suits you in any of our convenient, local centres.
At Pitman Training, we offer:
- Flexible training that fits around your commitments
- Support on hand from our friendly Learning Coaches
Get the skills and confidence you need to achieve your career goals!
Aims and Objectives
This diploma will give you the skills required to be able to offer a top-notch VA service to your clients. You’ll cover all the essential areas a VA will need to know, such as effective communication and bookkeeping, but also gain valuable marketing and project management knowledge to give you a broad skillset.
Pre-Requisites
There are no pre-requisites for this diploma.
Career Path
This diploma is quite specific in that it aims to help you get the skills required to work as a Virtual Assistant and make use of your entrepreneurial spirit that is required to run your own business.
CPD Points 155 (Awarded CPD points upon successful completion)
Core Courses
VA Essentials
If you’re thinking of becoming a Virtual Assistant, our VA Essentials course will help give you a rounded overview of what is involved in running your own business as a Virtual Assistant.
Marketing Essentials
Over four modules, you’ll cover topics such as understanding what a marketing plan is, how to carry out appropriate research, how websites are designed to market the company, effective advertising, and the four Ps of marketing products.
Understanding Business Accounts
For a business, nothing is more important than its finances.
This course will provide you with a good understanding of business accounts — essential knowledge if you run a small business.
Instagram for Business
This course will teach you what you need to know about Instagram, the popular image-sharing platform, and how it can help you market your business.
Facebook for Business
Learn how to use Facebook to promote and market your organisation. This course looks at how businesses can maximise their presence on this popular social media platform.
SEO for Business
This course takes the mystery out of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) so you can understand how you can use it to your advantage.
Social Media Strategy for Business
Social media is a crucial business tool and powerful method of communication. This course will help you formulate the right strategy for your business to effectively market to your target audience.
Teams
You will learn how to use the core features of Microsoft Teams to set up and start meetings, send messages, collaborate on documents, and more.
SharePoint
In this course, you will learn how to use the core features of Microsoft SharePoint to store, organise, share, and access information from any device.
Working Remotely
This course is ideal if you intend to work as a VA. You will learn how to set up your workspace, optimise virtual collaboration, build perseverance and resilience, and learn how to contribute effectively as a virtual team member.
Project+
This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to manage the life cycle of a project in terms of defining what it is, planning each aspect, including implementation, completion, and evaluation.
ELECTIVE COURSES (choose four)
- Audio Transcription
- Bookkeeping
- Effective Business Communication
- Excel
- Google Docs
- Introduction to Business Structure & Law
- OneDrive
- Outlook
- Sage 50 Accounts
- Speedwriting
- Successful Meetings and Minutes
- Time Management
- Word
- WordPress for Business
- Zoom
Alternative subjects may be chosen if more suitable to your existing skills and career goals.