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Re:Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant by joshaidan on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @01:28PM (#5287380)
I noticed they don't talk about where they get their virtual assistants from. Do they hire them themselves, or do they recruit them from another agency? How do I sign up to work as a virtual assistant for them?

Oh well, I guess that's part of their trade secrets.

Re:Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant by prayag on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @01:48PM (#5287541)
We can definitely share this information. We are a crowdsourcing company and have tens of thousands of people in our crowd in more than 55 countries with variety of backgrounds and education. We also have a history of what kind of work a crowd member is suited for. We scout our crowd to find the most suitable members of Premier, we then train them, test them and after a brief vetting period they become a full premier member.

We occasionally hire from outside of the crowd too but our crowd has such diverse talents its great to channel that talents and have them interact with clients directly.

Re:Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant by ajiang on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:20PM (#5288288)
When you say crowdsourcing, how exactly do you crowdsource? Are you pulling from people who sign up online somewhere? Or is it just euphemism for outsourcing?
Re:Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant by prayag on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:38PM (#5288418)
We have a platform where people can sign-up, get trained and work. We launched it about 1.5 years ago and have partnerships with both government and non-government agencies. You can read more about the platform at www.mobileworks.com
Re:Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant by aymeric on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:58PM (#5288562)
Could you please link to that platform?
Re:Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant by prayag on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @04:07PM (#5288633)
I did in the previous post. https://www.mobileworks.com
Re:Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant by aymeric on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:36AM (#5290881)
My apologies I thought you were linking to the same site. Didn't notice the "premier" subdomain.