I just read Adam Khoo’s entry on this and decided to post a similar entry to his. Recently, I hire a going to enter university guy to help me with my online business.
It was my first time hiring a part-time or full time staff and not just a virtual assistant from philiphines or India. So I gave a simple interview and thought that he was quite a good candidate to help me out with my work.
Initially we had a little misunderstandings and he thought I was paying him at $8/hour, but later on, I brought it down to $6.50/hour as my ads was around $5.50/hour. But he still accepted it since I don’t think he can find any work at $8/hour yet.
The first week went by and it was still okay. Then I guessed when you know someone better, you start to get over his head and try to laze around. And his attitude gets worse each day. He started to listen to MP3 when working and going to social networking sites like facebook and Twitter while working, thinking that I’m not looking.
How unproductive is he?
When I asked him to write an article, he can take 2-3 hours to finsh writing one article that is around 300-400 words. That costs me around $19.50 if you do the maths. but if I were to get my freelancers to do it for me, I’ll get it at $4 or 5 or even $7 with even better writings.
But then, i’m not hiring a writer so it isn’t really fair to pinpoint about this. But if a simple task like report writing and articles writing take even so long, it says something about a Singaporean.
I finally decided that he has to go after he said that $6.50 is too little for him. He isn’t happy in the first place, and I’m not getting work done enough.
But you can see that the younger Singaporean are getting more choosy, can’t withstand hardship, lesser productivity, and still think that they deserve the pay. But the truth is due to globalization, the labor market is supplied with a lot of workers that Singaporeans don’t really deserve the salary they are getting unless they do something about it.
Conclusion?
I’ll be hiring virtual assistants from other parts of the world where they would produce more work. If I’m looking for locals, they need the energy, motivation and perserverance. Probably they would be a partner then.
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