- Hiring Process
The work is fully remote. The hiring is strictly local.
Fully remote, priced by years, then closed by residency.
Writing a spec for a remote assistant is where firms filter on the wrong thing, and a live posting shows exactly how. A fully remote general virtual assistant role was listed on LinkedIn for Wing through a recruiter, with pay capped by years of experience and a rule that applicants live in the United States. It asks for six months to one year of VA experience, completed senior high school, and a 25 Mbps connection with a backup line behind it.
The pay is written as ceilings, each keyed to a band of years. A candidate who meets the stated experience minimum does not reach the lowest one.
What the spec asks for
The duties cover different kinds of work: light bookkeeping, calendar and inbox defense, and research written up into reports. Somebody is also buying product samples and booking rental cars. That is not a role. That is a pile of leftovers with a title.
What is not in it is any statement of what finished work looks like. The posting says Wing may use AI tools to review applications and flag inconsistencies, with humans making the final call. A screen still needs something to grade against, and a spec this loose supplies a duty list instead.
The one line doing the filtering
Read the requirements as a set, and they are almost all permissive. Senior high school. Six months of experience. A proactive attitude, a willingness to be trained, and paid training once hired. Then one line closes the pool to a single country, and that line is the only criterion in the document with nothing to do with the work. The residency requirement has not been cross-examined here. It survives because it is cheap to check.
Paid training says the employer expects to teach the job. A location rule says it will not teach it to anybody outside one country. Postings have been flagging remote and hybrid arrangements for years, and the flag has been tracked across occupations long enough to be ordinary. What a flag never says is where remote stops.
Where the line belongs
A firm about to hire a legal virtual assistant writes the same document, in the same order, and faster. Location first, because it is one sentence. Duties second, because they can be copied from whoever is drowning. The standard the work has to meet comes last or never, and a spec built that way has filtered hard on geography and not at all on capability. For general administrative support, the bench is deep, which makes it selection rather than search, and a geographic filter is the one cut that tells you nothing about the person it keeps.
A location is not a standard.
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