Whether you want freelance clients or a remote job, this covers both. You learn office systems, Word, Excel, Xero, project work and client support. Online study, and the pace is yours.
Starting up a VA business is the first topic, not an afterthought.
Bookkeeping, Xero and project work widen what you can be hired for.
Twelve months of access. Take one certificate at a time.
Virtual assistant work is remote support for small businesses. A week is inboxes and diaries, invoices in Xero, then a project.
Freelance or contracted remote support.
Run a diary and inbox from anywhere.
Keep systems, records and suppliers straight.
Track timelines and chase the detail.
Look after a book of clients.
Invoices and reconciliation in Xero.
Cover admin, accounts and projects.
Support content, ads and reporting.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience.
Four certificates: the business, the books, the software, the projects.
Three things worth knowing.
Accounting basics and a full Xero certificate, not just admin.
Planning, monitoring, stakeholders and closing a project out.
An optional digital marketing certificate with AI, Google and Meta ads.
Plus CPD credits and career support
Issued once you finish the diploma.
Counts toward your professional development.
The college is an official Xero Partner.
Your own clients, or a remote job.
An advisor covers all four certificates.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Enrol and open the first certificate.
None needed. The first certificate starts with setting up.
Access runs twelve months. The four parts come to about two hundred and fifty hours.
None, ever. You work through each certificate at your pace.
The course covers starting up, communication and client care. Finding the clients is still your job.
Yes. A full Xero certificate sits inside the diploma.
No. The digital marketing certificate with AI is optional.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office. It carries CPD credits. It is not a QQI course and not a national award. VA clients hire on what you can take off their plate.
There is a fourteen day money back guarantee, less the administration fee.
The Career Academy sells this course. It trades as The Career Academy Limited.
The college is an ICOES accredited centre. It also holds CPD Standards Office accreditation and is a Xero Partner.
Picture the Monday you open your laptop and the clients are yours.