Episode 2042-042

Episode 2042-042

Welcome to Sideosal School. My name is Chris Gillibow. Welcome as well to Throwback Thursday.

In this weekly segment, we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them.

Last week we heard from the co-founder of Happy Box, a service that offers unique care packages for all occasions.

We've had lots of others throughout the year. You can listen to all of those features completely free,

wherever you get your podcasts, or directly on SideosalSchool.com. Just go to the episodes page.

Today in our latest feature, we'll hear from John Jonas, founder of OnlineJobs.ph.ph.

That stands for the Philippines, or it is the domain based on the Philippines.

John's business is really cool. It basically connects employers and entrepreneurs,

even some side-ussellers, with virtual assistants and other professionals in the Philippines,

where English is widely spoken, but the cost of labor is less.

Let's hear a bit more about that from John, including what has worked well, and his current challenge.

So I'll be back at the end with a quick wrap-up.

My name is John Jonas. I'm from Highland, Utah, and my side hustle is OnlineJobs.ph.

OnlineJobs.ph is a job board for employers around the world looking to hire a virtual worker from the Philippines.

It's kind of like, indeed, dot com, but it just focuses on the Philippines so that people have a good experience

when they hire a virtual worker. I started it out of necessity for myself in 2008.

I wanted to be able to recruit someone myself, and at the time, there were only agencies,

and they kind of did a crappy job of finding people for you.

So I hired a programmer and built the software, this job board, hoping that maybe I'd get a couple hundred profiles

so that I could recruit someone myself.

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