Illustration (Adobe)

Are you looking for virtual assistants who will help you with your illustration jobs? Like you, there are several people who look for talented Illustrators for short term as well as long term projects.

Where to search for talented VA:

The problem that often comes up for hirers is where to search for the right person. If you search the internet you will come across several profiles, which may seem excellent, but how do you trust the candidate? There are a few recommended ways of searching the right candidate. While you are scanning the profiles of candidates look for those candidates who have entered contents and won. There are several candidates who have won several drawing or sketching contents and that is usually displayed in their profile. This will help you to understand that their skill has been recognized previously. This is especially important for this profiles which do not have prior experiences and who are novices as compared to others, but their skill and portfolio seems to be promising. This can be a criterion for selecting from the inexperienced lot.

There are some hirers who prefer to give trial projects to virtual assistants before giving them real projects. Such trial projects are usually paid at a lower rate but help to test the capability of the VA to a great extent. Look for skills such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Flash, 3D Studio Max and vector graphics editors and raster graphics editors. If the candidate claims to have outstanding Photoshop skills you can check out that aspect through the trial project. If you don't find this method suitable you can ask for samples from the VA to understand better.

Local illustration communities are often the pool of talents. You can check out these communities for profiles of candidates. If budget is not a problem with you, you can get some of the best illustrators from these candidates. You can also check listings, chat rooms, professional websites, and freelance websites to get the profiles of some of the best candidates. In most of these areas, you will get to see work samples and profiles of the prospective virtual assistants. You may also get in touch with local agencies which connect the illustrators with the business houses to know more about the VAs.