Tag Archives: Personal Assistant

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 conclusion from the longest (75 years and ongoing), most expensive (20 million USD) and most extended scientific study about happiness (The Grant Study, named after its main funder), conducted by Harvard, was: the ONLY great factor defining happiness in our lives is the quality of our relationships! Furthermore, another …

“Imagine a world where people wake up inspired to go to work.” Simon Sinek “Start With Why”   It happened again. Hardly any hands in the air. I believe executives and principals need to know this. I was recently speaking at a professional conference for Personal and Executive Assistants in …

Recently, I noticed certain disturbing resume trends that have serious impacts on candidates’ job search. Some of them are new variations on the old mistakes and some are new problems that arise from the prevalence of app-based job searching. Hopefully you won’t fall for these insidious mistakes and ruin your …

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 …

Not surprisingly, what assistants do is not exactly clear to others. There are a few reasons for this. First, we don’t promote ourselves correctly. Then, there is the issue of too many different titles. Some research says that there are over 150 variations of what we Assistants do. And the last …

I started my Virtual Assistant (or VA) business in September 2015 and I find I get asked the same questions time and time again by perspective clients as well as my friends and family.  I have written the following article to try and answer some of these questions   Who …

Many of the professions which inhabit the world of private staffing are extremely idiosyncratic in terms of the way specific duties are managed…there is always a professional, methodical way in which only a fully-trained individual would have knowledge of which enables to person to carry out duties effectively and to …

In our world where good is never good enough we all strive to be perfect. We want to get the maximum out of every minute, every penny, every contact, every employee, every meeting and every task. But then, somewhere along the way we realize – we are exhausted! This ‘burn …

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker (The Color Purple) There’s good news and bad news in the workplace of 2016. The good news is that there has never been a better time to be a personal assistant than …