Kara Chan – Digital Marketing & Administrative Assistant

Hi, I am Kara Michelle Chan, you can call me Kara. I am a wife and mother of 3 lovely boys. I graduated with a degree in Operations Management in the University of St. La Salle and took my postgraduate at the Auckland Institute of Studies in New Zealand. A few years back, I would not have thought of myself as working from home, nor imagining as such. But life can throw you a curve ball and things just unfold. I never knew working from home could be so fulfilling, stress free, and enjoyable.

I started out working as a marketing associate for a bank, dealing with clients, accounts, investments, filing, and paperwork. Then along came an opportunity for me to work remotely. It was not an easy decision since this is a new environment, full of unknown factors involved but I took the leap and chose to work homebased after I had my second child in 2015.

Surprisingly, it didn’t take long for me to be able to adapt to the new environment. I built my experience through client support, back-end maintenance of websites, flow and operation, marketing and promotions, social media marketing, finance and payroll, hiring, training, coaching, reporting, scheduling, and digital marketing. I learn fast and can cross function within the company. I can work well alone or with a team. I find teaching my colleagues what I know fulfilling, as I aim to set a great work environment and work culture for the team. Being diligent in my work, goal-oriented, keen to details, resourceful, and equipped with different set of skills and knowledge makes me an outstanding Virtual Assistant.

Over the years, understanding the culture and environment of the company is important, a good attitude and consistently giving your best and be accountable for your work in all aspects is an important factor in achieving success. No problem is too difficult when you give your all – understand, ask when needed, and be responsible to deliver.

Working at home is very different from being at an office, but I know that this environment is best for me and my family. Aside from providing for my family, I believe that time is one important factor I can give them, and by working at home, I am able to provide all this.

I aim to grow further with my career, and learn more skills and knowledge along the way to better myself and apply them to both my work and life.

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