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Employer & Candidate Resources

Because on the overwhelming demand for guidance, we have supplied both candidates and employers with resources to help them better understand the nuance of our industry.

More resources are added every week, so sign up for our newsletter to be updated every month. If you don't see your desired topic below, simply use the search box above. 

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A

• A day in the life of a PA to the HNW (video)
•​ A day in the life of a celebrity PA (video)
• About Brian Daniel 
​• About personal assistant jobs
​• Administrative assistant job description 
•​ Advertise your job (NEW) ​​
• AOL: America Online Interview
​• Applying for jobs: The 100-hour rule 
​​• A380 private airline suite (video)

B​

• BBC News Interview: PAs to sports stars ​
​• Background checks (NEW) ​
• Being a PA in today's job market
​• Being humble and willing to change 
​• Billionaire capitals of the world
• Blog (Employment, Careers, Lifestyle)
• Branding a professional image
​• Brian Daniel on location (photos) 
• Brian Daniel: A real-life Jerry Maguire 
• Butler job description 

C

•​ Car fleet management
• Career coaching (NEW) 
• Career coaching (videos)
• Caviar: Eating & etiquette 
• Celebrity entourage  
• Celebrity nanny
• ​Celebrity protection 
​• Changing careers: Becoming a PA to the 1% 
​• Chef job description 
​​• Chief of Staff job description  
• City pages luxe resources 
​• Coat of Arms: Understanding aristocracy 
​• Confidentiality agreement
​• Consulting (candidates)
• Consulting (employers)
• Consulting (recruiters)
• Contact

D

• Daily checklist for personal assistants
• Dealing with difficult people ​
​• Downton Abbey: The Real-life Family
• Dubai: Assistants on assignment (7-star hotel)
​• Dubai: Assistants on assignment (indoor skiing) ​
​• Dubai: Assistants on assignment (Atlantis)

E

• Effective communication (at work) ​
• Employers
• Estate manager job description 
• Estate Management tools (NEW) ​​​ 
• Etiquette: email
​• Etiquette: table manners 
• Executive assistant job description 
• Executive assistant headhunter
​• Executive PA Magazine interview 
• Executive Secretary Magazine interview

F

• Facebook
• Family Office defined
• FAQ for assistants ​(NEW)
​• FAQ for employers ​
​​• Female PA-Bodyguards needed 
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (restaurant) 
​• Fighting stress at work 
​• French Chateau (video: costs of running)
​• Forbes.com: Brian Daniel

G

• Getting a pay raise (asking) 
​• Getting employers to call you back
• Getting the job (closing the deal)
• Gift shopping for billionaires

H

• HNW, UHNW, UHNWI, UHNWF (defined)
• Headhunter Academy Awards Interview 
• Hidden Job Market defined 
​• Hire a personal assistant
• Holding your boss accountable
​• Hollywood personal assistant portrayals 
• Home movie theaters for the UHNW
• Household manuals for estates ​
​​• How to work for a celebrity

I

• Interview Advice: How to dress
​• Interview Advice: How to follow up
• Interview Advice: Phone interviews
• Interview Advice: Private Offices ​
​• Interview Advice: Skype (how to)
​• Interview Advice: Strategies
​• Interviewing contractors (how to)

J

• Jobs
• Job description: Executive Personal Assistant 
​• Job Search Secrets Book
• Job titles and descriptions (domestic staff)

K

• Keep Learning: Spotlight interviews with experts 

L

• Legal and Privacy Policy 
​• Life in a mega-estate (video)
• Lifestyle Management defined 
• ​LinkedIn: 7 secret features to know
• LinkedIn business page
​• LinkedIn Brian Daniel
• LinkedIn: Do's and Don'ts
• LinkedIn (Featured career writer) 
• Living in a Western compound overseas
​• Locations we serve 

M

• Mega-yachts (the basics) 
• Members-only clubs (the best in the world)

N

​• Nanny job description 
• News and Media
​• Newsletter
• Negotiating your employment contract 
​• NDA: Non-disclosure agreement

O

• On the job: Celebrity PA at work

P

• PA eBook 
​• Palace life in the Middle East 
• Partners (NEW)
• Paying an ultra-large dinner check with tact ​
​• Personal assistant agency benefits 
​• Personal assistant job description ​
• Personal assistant resume
• Pinterest 
​•​ Post a job ad ​(NEW)
• Press & Media 
• Private Jets: Booking & Models 
​• Protecting celebrities and billionaires 
   ↳ Inside Warren Buffet's protection 
   ↳ Panic rooms & underground bunkers 
   ↳ Protecting Kings and Presidents
   ↳ UHNW security teams 

Q

• Qualities of a good assistant

R

• Recommendation letters (getting & using them)
​• Recruiters (partnership)
• Resumes: Old vs. New
• Resume secrets: (bypassing gatekeepers) 
• Resume submissions (beating ATS code) 
• Resume writing (coaching)
• Resume writing tips
​• Reviews and recommendations
• Riley Guide (our network mentioned) 
​• Rolling calls (defined) ​
​• Royal titles & addressing royalty 

S

• Safe rooms (aka panic rooms)
• Salary guide for paying assistants
• ​Security and bodyguards for the UHNW
• Setting boundaries with your employer 
• Site Map 
• Skype interview tips
​• SPOTLIGHT interview series with experts 
​• Staffing agencies (partnership)
• Surviving backstabbing and betrayal at work 
​• Super-yachts: An inside look

T

• Testimonials 
• The real-life Devil Wears Prada
​• The real Titanic movie necklace 
​• Traditional recruiting flaws
​• Training
• Travel Concierge 
• Traveling with billionaires & royals
​• Travel Tips: Getting free suites
​• Twitter 
• TV shows & movies about assistants

U - Z

• Understanding how to search for jobs 
​• Videos: On location around the world 
• VIP: How to get your boss in the front of the line 
• Wealth statistics: Working for the high net worth 
​• Weekend Update coaching videos
• Why you should use a recruiter to find staff 
• Why we are a unique staffing agency 
​• Wine & Champagne
   ↳ Billionaire wine cellar
   ↳ Decanting wine
   ↳ Glasses: flutes or coupes
   ↳ How to read wine labels
   ↳ Sommelier 101
   ↳ Uncorking Champagne
   ↳ Vintage: How to spot fakes 
• Working for UHNW families (how to get the jobs)
• Workplace survey results
• World's best presidential suite
• World's most beautiful estate 
• Yacht management (the basics)