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Looking at various job boards and domestic employment agencies who specialise in the placement of professional private staff, you’ll find that the demand for Personal Assistants and Private PAs is extremely high with many advertising for talent in areas such as London, New York, Los Angeles and other areas with a …

The challenges facing the recruiting industry during the COVID-19 pandemic are complicated (an understatement). Accordingly, we have divided the subject into two companion pieces (you can read the first part here). This article focuses on domestic staff recruiting post-COVID-19, which will not approximate anything like turning a light switch from …

Like many of us, I have been doing a lot of reading, listening to podcasts and television binge-watching in order to occupy myself through the tedium of isolation and to escape the steady onslaught of unfathomable news. All that escapism might provide some needed mental health salve, but there is …

Whether for the purposes of asset preservation or lifestyle enhancement (or both) the idea of retaining a highly trained provider of professional property management services for the home one lives in is now coming of age.  Referred to simply as PRM, this rapidly growing home service is destined to positively …

Together with watches, jewellery, cars and many other valuable collector’s items, cigars are also to be considered a delicate item, a result of a unique craftsmanship that requires great care. The anatomy of a cigar. Cigars are usually made of five leaves, three of these leaves are blended to form …

Doing Christmas the UK way: how do multicultural household staff coordinate and incorporate traditions to lay on an authentic and professional British experience? Most international clients living in the UK use the Christmas break to travel and thus private staff are busy in the run up to the festive season planning flights, …

Canada was not always a wealthy nation. Voltaire famously dismissed Canada in Chapter 23 of “Candide” as a worthless place and a sad matter of “a few acres of snow.” In Voltaire’s opinion, France would be better served focusing on its colonies in the Caribbean. Leave Canada to the snow …

When discussing Private Staffing we often think about renowned cities such as London, New York and Geneva! I had a small window in which to chat to Anthony Mauro, CEO of Adventurepreneur Escapes based in St Croix, US Virgin Islands to chat about his business and the staff which are most commonly …

If you want to employ a Personal Assistant or Carer in your home, there are a few steps to go through and legal requirements that you need to be aware of. You may wish to use an agency, in which case a lot of the admin and responsibility is taken …

“Self defence” a term we all know too well in today’s climate, there are dozens of different “styles”, classes and courses one can take to give you confidence and the ability to defend yourself from attack, or do they? Whilst I have no martial arts or modern fighting technique qualifications …