One of our most respected colleagues, Bonnie Low-Kramen, was featured in a Forbes.com article recently. It’s a good read and a quick intro to her amazing work with Executive Assistants around the world. The first thing to know, Bonnie Low-Kramen tells a full conference room, is that you are not secretaries. You are executive assistants…
This post is a nice update on family service positions. The modern day Family Assistant is becoming popular again and including elements of traditional PA’s, Social Secretaries, and helping with children. Maddie Gray’s working day begins at 9am, when there are bills to be paid, invoices to issue and dozens of snags and queries to…
As always… Be careful who you hire! Also having great S.O.P’s in place and redundant staff oversight for security purposes wouldn’t hurt. The former personal assistant to Goldman Sachs co-president David Solomon fled to Rome in November 2016, one day after privately admitting he took $1.2 million worth of rare wine from the executive’s collection.…
This is one of the ideas I present in my book. The only disagreement I have is that CLIENTS themselves are the root of privacy issues. Unless they have a dedicated staff intentionally protecting them, many mistakes get made they probably are not even aware of… …In this age of the internet, social media and…
My favorite article of the week – A Personal Assistant who will not reveal anything to the press and maintains her professionalism. If she must give information under oath, I’m sure she will comply, but otherwise her knowledge on all employer matters is not for sale! A former Sydney woman employed as Harvey Weinstein’s “gatekeeper”…
This one is from a few years ago, but it just came up in a current article about becoming a high profile personal assistant. I thought it was worth another review. Nearly every exclusive field runs on assistants. The actor James Franco, like Buddha before him, had an assistant keep track of his meals and…
Assistants take note – If you need to get your employers to Burning Man right away, here’s your solution! If you thought Burning Man was just a steampunk renaissance fair for filthy hippies, like I did, you too may be surprised to learn that this $10 million helicopter is doing taxi service for (rich) people…
The palace may not pay well, but is this not the ultimate resume builder? Buckingham Palace is looking to hire a new household assistant.An vacancy has appeared on the British monarchy’s official website advertising a domestic position for which the successful candidate will be “specifically responsible for the care of guests and maintaining the cleanliness,…