Virtual Assistant
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Virtual Assistant: A Global Career
If you’re a motivated go-getter with strong administrative, business, and/or technical skills, then becoming a professional virtual assistant might be the career step you’ve been looking for. The virtual assistant can work from any location with anyone in the world.
What is a VA (Virtual Assistant)?
A virtual assistant is an independent entrepreneur providing administrative, creative, and technical services to clients virtually (online). As your own boss, you control the kind of work you do to best match your own skills and interests. Utilizing advanced technological modes of communication and data delivery, a professional VA assists clients in his/her area of expertise from his/her office on a contractual basis. (International Virtual Assistants Association.)
Virtual Assistants contract for a wide variety of professional services that may include desktop publishing, web research, web design and management, technical writing and editing, systems management, marketing, advertising, call center support, programming, graphic design, database management, academic writing, public relations, shopping cart management and event planning.
Certificate
In this program you can earn the following:
- Certificate (less than one year)
Portland Community College is the first college in the Pacific Northwest to offer a Virtual Assistant Certificate.
The Virtual Assistant certificate is part of the Computer Applications & Office Systems (CAS/OS) program. See the catalog and advising guide for information regarding certificate requirements. All CAS/OS courses applied to the certificate or degrees must be passed with a “C” grade or better.
What's Next?
- Apply for admission to PCC.
- Contact a program representative for advising.
- Program representatives: Patty McCoy for Cascade Campus, Michele Maxwell at Sylvania Campus, Jessie Levine at Rock Creek Campus.
- Contact admissions and let them know you are seeking this certificate.