Household Staff of the Future This is not, as you may think from the title, a new Marvel movie, but the first piece in an occasional series providing guidance for those candidates who think they might like to work in private households. We thought it might be helpful to take a brief look at the…
The Benefits of Employing a Governess A governess, as we’ve mentioned before, is someone employed within a private household to teach the family’s children. The role is not to be confused with that of a nanny – a governess focusses on education, rather than caring for the development of young children. The male equivalent is…
Recruitment Conduct: Help Us to Help You We receive hundreds of applications for the roles for which we recruit, and deal with many, many people as a result. Those that tend to be successful in the application process often have a number of attributes in common – not necessarily in terms of their skills, but…
What Kind of Chef is Right for You? How do you decide what kind of chef is right for your home? One size does most definitely not fit all when it comes to food, so it naturally follows that there is a veritable smorgasbord of chefs to prepare it. Some people might require a full…
The Importance of Vetting What is vetting? Vetting simply means the procedures we follow in order to verify a candidate’s background. It is a vital part of the recruitment process, helping to determine if they’ll be a good fit for the proposed household, if they have the right skillset, personality and work ethic for the…
Find Me a Carson! Here at Pembury Partners we often get requests from clients asking, “find me the perfect Carson”, or indeed Mary Poppins, Jeeves or any number of other well-known household staff from books, TV and films. Whilst these characters are of course entirely fictional, we straight away know what they are looking for…
21st Century Housekeeping What does it take to ensure seamless running of the home? We took a look into the modern world of housekeeping in a fully staffed formal 21st century private household. To outsiders, traditional formal housekeeping might appear to be an anachronism. However, this is not the case – it definitely has a place…
Family Assistants One of the most noticeably useful roles on a day-to-day basis for a busy principal is that of the Family Assistant. An UHNW (Ultra High Net Worth) individual will very likely have numerous business and other projects all making demands upon their time, yet like many of us they might also have a…
Benefits of using LinkedIn for Candidates for Private Household Roles From a candidate’s perspective the benefits of using LinkedIn, as part of the process of finding, interviewing for, gaining and progressing within a role in the private household sector, are many and noteworthy. At a basic level, LinkedIn is somewhere where available jobs are often…
Job Focus: PAs The role of the Private Personal Assistant is well known in the business world – assisting CEOs and upper management with many facets of their day-to-day activities. In private households the skills PAs bring in order to facilitate the lives of the principals and their families are essentially the same – they’re…
