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January 18th, 2018

1/18/2018

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5 Reasons Why You Should Hire Personal Assistant

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Many successful businessmen and businesswomen have experienced all benefits of hiring such professional time-managers and organizers as Personal Assistant.
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A qualified personal assistant can be a valuable asset both for your business and for your household.

For those who do not understand the real value of a personal assistant, and that the presence of such a candidate in your arsenal will significantly simplify your life, Morgan & Mallet International would like to provide a list of important responsibilities that can be performed by personal assistants :


  • Schedule management is one of the main tasks of a personal assistant. A busy person having a lot of tasks on their table may just forget to write down some arranged meeting in a diary and miss that after all. A personal assistant will always make sure that you remember about an important meeting or appointment and will reschedule it if necessary.
 
  • Make travel arrangements. A personal assistant will always be willing to organize their client’s trip should it be for business or pleasure. They can do their own research in order to find the best hotel for your business trip in any part of the world or contact special agencies in order to collect information about the best resorts for your vacation.  
 
  • Secretary role. Personal assistants can even cover such basic secretary role as filtering your phone calls, answering emails or dealing with correspondence.
 
  • Household management is an integral part of your daily life that takes a lot of your precious time you can spend with your family or on yourself. A personal assistant can help you with recruiting the right staff for your property as they definitely know your character, preferences and needs; they can deal with different kinds of payments; they can even contact contractors and suppliers and liaise with them afterwards so you will not need to bother if everything is done.
 
  • Event planning and gift shopping. You may feel free to ask your personal assistant to organize a corporate party or, if he/she is close to your family, the PA can arrange a birthday party, as normally a qualified and professional personal assistant may have such experience in their background. â€‹They will know how to book a table in the best restaurant in the city at a short notice or will have the list of bespoke catering companies for your event. They can keep a list of gifts you gave to your friends and relatives for birthday or Christmas last year and can recommend presents in the future or you can choose the present on your own and just ask your PA to order that. A good PA will always try to get a better price for their employer.

If you are still trying to find the right Personal Assistant or after reading this article you have decided to hire one for yourself, please feel free to contact Morgan & Mallet International.

Our consultants will provide the best specialists and the right personality for you.
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In case you have all the skills listed above, please feel free to apply through our agency so Morgan & Mallet International can help you meet your future employer. 
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Personal Assistant for you. Insight into the PA profession

6/26/2017

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When your life is missing organisation and order, you keep forgetting important things, your workload is ever increasing and the organiser in your phone is no longer being helpful – it is high time to hire a personal assistant (PA).
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Who is PA and why he or she can be a real magic wand for you  ? Here is the answer.  
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  • Benefits of hiring Personal Assistant

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Once you have hired yourself a personal assistant, who is dedicated, assertive and skilled, you would be surprised how much time you could save. As a PA can perform a wide range of tasks and duties personally for you or for your family, hiring one will help you keep an ideal balance and harmony between your work and your household life.

​You can focus more on your family, your business or yourself as someone has already paid your bills, taken your clothes to the dry cleaners, made a reservation to your favourite restaurant and done grocery shopping, and this is just the top of the list.
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Personal assistant can be responsible for a lot more, starting from dealing with personal correspondence and answering your phone calls, taking responsibility for household budget to taking your children to school and supervising the household staff. 
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  • Difference between PA and Secretary 

Sometimes, there is a confusion between such professions as personal assistant and personal secretary.

The difference is very slight, but it still exists, and before hiring a personal assistant, you should make yourself sure who you are looking for.
​A private secretary usually works solely for one family and mainly is accountable for diary and correspondence management, arranging meetings and appointments, and some reception duties.

As well as a PA, secretary should be very initiative, proactive and with a strong sense of responsibility regarding personal errands of the employer. Both of them keep close contact with their employers at all times in order to keep the private and professional affairs in order and well organised.

They both should be aware of their employer’s desires and wishes. However, secretary usually would not be involved in such matters as work of other staff, outside contractors or childcare. Secretary positions are mostly focused on administrational tasks, dealing with budgets and accounts, and very often they would work in a family office. If you are looking for someone to run your personal errands and be the right hand for you then you are certainly in need of a personal assistant. ​
  • Qualities and Skills good PA must have

Whether you are looking for a PA or you are considering becoming one, it is essential to know what qualities and skills are the most important for such profession.

First, personal assistant is someone with exceptional organisational skills, as he or she should organise their own duties additionally to the life of the employer. Good PA is an enthusiastic and confident individual, computer literate, tech-savvy, and experienced in management. Secondly, flexibility is an absolute must for a personal assistant. Moreover, flexibility concerns both the working hours and the nature of tasks to do.

Quite frequently, PAs do not have a fixed schedule and can be asked to perform some tasks, which are not very typical and ordinary.

Other important traits are definitely discretion and confidentiality. Professional PA who is trusted with the most intimate issues of their employers’ life will always keep everything in privacy, as the trust between PA and the employer is fundamental. Finally yet importantly, perfect PA is someone who has matching personalities with their employer. Someone who could foresee the needs and desires of the employer and act on behalf of them at all times. 

If you are looking for a personal assistant – do not hesitate to contact us and we will help you with your search.
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