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10 Ways To Tell If A Candidate Will Be A Good Fit

Hiring the right person for a role that works directly with you or your family can be a challenging task. You want someone who has the skills, experience and personality to fit your needs, but they also need to be capable of developing a strong rapport with you and your family, and contributing to your overall success. So how can you tell if a candidate is a good match for your role? Here are 10 effective ways to evaluate a candidate to ensure that you ultimately hire the right person: 1. Assess Their Skills If you work with a professional referral agency, each candidate you are introduced to will be qualified for the role. That

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What Executives Really Look For In An Executive Assistant

We’re seeing many changes to the administrative position, and to an inexperienced administrative professional or casual observer, you may think that this new era, defined by digital shortcuts and automation, will spell the end of executive and personal assistants. But any accomplished executive will credit a portion of their success to those around them, especially including their administrative and support staff. An Executive Assistant is an experienced and skilled administrative and operations specialist whose #1 priority is ensuring that their principal is organized and prepared for each day of their professional and often personal life. These executive support professionals provide administrative support and are trusted confidants to CEOs, MDs, and other top executives. There are

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The Combined Role Of An Executive Personal Assistant

As our lives become busier and often include working longer hours, or blurred lines between our business and personal lives, it can be difficult find balance and continuity between these different areas of one’s life. As an executive, you may need administrative support with tasks like scheduling, setting up business travel and project management, and with a busy personal life, with duties such as running errands, setting up appointments and dealing with family matters. Hiring two people to do these very different roles can be inefficient, expensive and redundant – so what’s the solution? Meet the Executive Personal Assistant, often shortened to EPA. The modern Executive Personal Assistant is an experienced, professional, tech-savy and multi-tasking

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How To Build A High-Performing Team For Your Family Office

If you run a family office, you know how important it is to have a team of talented and dedicated professionals who can manage your wealth and affairs. But finding and keeping such talent is not easy in today’s competitive market. You need to offer more than just a salary and a bonus. You need to offer a compelling value proposition that aligns with your family’s vision, values, and goals. In this article, we’ll cover four key topics that every family office should consider when designing and implementing their talent strategy: How to define your talent needs and expectations How to attract and recruit the right talent for your family office How to retain and

How To Attract And Retain Top Talent For Your Family Office

If you run a family office, you know how important it is to have a team of qualified and loyal professionals who can manage your wealth and affairs. But finding and keeping such talent is not easy in today’s competitive market. You need to offer more than just a salary and a bonus. You need to offer a compelling value proposition that aligns with your family’s vision, values, and goals.   In this article, we’ll touch on insights and best practices from Katten’s Family Office Compensation and Talent panels, which featured experts from Mack International and Botoff Consulting. We’ll also cover four key topics that every family office should consider when designing and implementing their

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How To Build A Top-Tier Resume As An Executive/Personal Assistant

A resume can only tell you so much about how a person will perform on the job, but this it’s the first impression you will make on a potential employer and a great opportunity to stand out among the competition. This is especially true if you are looking for work as a personal or executive assistant because these jobs are in high demand. To secure a job that’s a great fit with an employer you love working for, here are some tips for creating the best personal or executive assistant resume. Adapt Your Resume To Each Position Of course, it’s much easier to use one generic resume for all potential jobs, but employers want to

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The world is spinning faster every day.

Employment has changed drastically the past few years—how we work, the type of work we do, and even where we work. Yet, while the world adapts, solutions for hiring private staff seem to be stuck in the past.

 

At Old State Staffing, we believe the status quo is not enough, and that those who decide now is the time to settle will be left behind. In the face of great change, tinkering around the edges simply won’t do. Since Day 1, our approach has been built on four key principles:

1. Developing A Quality Product

We’ve built Old State Staffing from the ground up, implementing the same cutting-edge recruiting tools used by the nation’s largest family offices. Historically inaccessible to smaller clients, these tools improve the tracking and management of talent, utilize machine learning for smarter searches, and intuitively compare compensation and qualification benchmarks both regionally and nationally. This allows us to find and match families with the best candidates quicker and more efficiently than ever before.

2. Building A Great Team

We knew from the start that our team would be our greatest differentiator. That’s because our agency is composed entirely of family office professionals who know what exceptional candidates look like; because we’ve applied to, managed, and hired for each of those positions ourselves.

3. Creating Meaningful Relationships

Building and maintaining relationships is important today, more than ever before. We place immense value on our relationships, not just with our clients, but our candidates, and the community at large. We spent our “pandemic years” building partnerships with local universities, to open the doors of private staffing to recent college graduates in the most educated metropolitan area in the world.

4. Refusing To Settle

Change is inevitable, yet private staffing has historically lagged in both hiring and employment standards. We’ve always been disruptors, first to adopt AI and machine learning—ensuring smarter, faster, more accurate matches for our clients.


We know that choosing an agency is a personal decision, and we’re honored for the time you have spent considering us as a partner in your search. If you haven’t spoken to us yet, let me be the first to say that we can’t wait to introduce you to our contacts, to guide you through the hiring process, and to introduce you to the perfect candidate. We know the stakes are high, but so are the rewards. With Old State Staffing you’ll be empowered to make informed, meaningful hiring decisions, so you can continue to thrive in a world that’s spinning faster every day.

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