Featuring today in WIBNI ‘s Member’s Monday. Sharing with other business owners how I can save their time and sanity by taking away their admin pain!

ALISON MATTHEWS – VIRTUALI ADMIN SOLUTIONS

04/10/2017

Alison Matthews is an experienced PA turned VA (Virtual Assistant) and since May 2015 with her company VirtuAli Admin Solutions she has been helping time poor entrepreneurs regain some balance in their personal/working lives by taking their admin pain away. She normally works remotely or ‘virtually’ with her clients sharing documents and tasks online but can also come to your office to help you set up systems or help make it paperless.

Women in Business NI

Video created by Samantha Robb for Women in Business NI

What does it take to make the leap to self-employment?

This is the question on the lips of anyone who’s ever thought about leaving the security of a full time job to go it alone. Making the decision is the first step, but how to turn that into a reality and stick at it is not always as clear cut.

Three years ago, I was working as a Personal Assistant (PA) to a senior Director in the headquarters of the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg where I’d gone to work 9yrs previously as a bi-lingual Project Administrator. I’d got to the stage in my career where I could go as far as I wanted in my grade and had already taken a sideways step to get more experience. I knew I wanted to use the skills I already had developed in 14yrs of varied administrative posts: customer –orientated , knowledge sharing, adapting to different personalities , evolving with new technologies and working with a high level of autonomy but I wasn’t quite sure which way to turn as I couldn’t find a role which was demanding and interesting enough.