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8. The Ability to Use Judgment and Work with Little Supervision: a good personal assistant will need to be self-motivated, making many of their own judgment calls concerning business.
9. Leadership Qualities: there will be duties required and chores given personal assistant which will require taking charge of others at times, and accomplishing goals.
10. Organizational Skills: with amount of chores and diversity of chores required of a personal assistant, a good one will have high end organizational skills, will be able to prioritize effectively, and will not suffer from "analysis paralysis", but will be able to make decisions quickly and efficiently.
11. Self Confidence: a good personal assistant will need to be aware of their own needs and needs of others, and will have to stand by decisions without backing down, therefore confidence in themselves and their decisions is necessary.
12. Customer Service Skills: many of chores that a personal assistant performs will bring assistant into direct contact with clients, therefore great customer service skills are also mandatory.
A business owner seeking to hire a personal assistant should look for qualities above and also use their own intuition about an individual applying for this position. The business owner should also seek to hire someone whose personality and goals meshes with their own, as personal assistant and business owner will spend many hours each day together, and will need to be of "same mind" about major issues.
It is also important when hiring a personal assistant to determine how much business can afford to pay a personal assistant, and also to be realistic about costs of a "quality personal assistant". Many personal assistants will work for reasonable rates, depending upon country in which business owner and assistant reside. This usually doesn't translate into "minimum wage requirements", however, as diversity of job itself would require a higher pay scale in order to attract more talented applicants for position. A good rule of thumb, is to pay as "high as possible" while still staying within budget of business.
After all, in a situation such as search for a qualified, reliable, energetic personal assistant, "cheap is not always better".
Vishal P. Rao is the owner of http://www.home-based-business-opportunities.com - One of Internet's leading website dedicated to starting, managing and marketing a home based business.