Insights & Useful Information

Notes from
the inside.

Guidance, perspective and useful information for the people who hire, and the people we place, drawn from years working within the private lives of high-profile clients.

What It Takes to Be a Celebrity PA

What It Takes to Be a Celebrity PA

Think being a celebrity PA is all backstage passes and red carpets? The reality is 3AM panic calls, last-minute rescues and the kind of problem-solving no job description could capture.

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Mental Health Matters - Especially in This Industry

Mental Health Matters - Especially in This Industry

The entertainment industry runs on passion, but it can be one of the toughest - and loneliest - places to work. On mental health, and why PALS will always make time to listen.

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What the PALS Standard really means

What the PALS Standard really means

Why PALS assesses the people it places on far more than a CV - and what emotional intelligence, discretion and a working mindset look like in practice.

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Hiring a Private PA: What to look for...

Hiring a Private PA: What to look for...

The difference between a good assistant and the right one. A practical guide for high-profile clients making a private PA hire that has to work first time.

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Discretion as a skill

Discretion as a skill

In this world, silence is a craft. What it really takes to operate at the highest levels of privacy - and why it cannot be taught on the job.

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In the Press

The agency quietly placing staff for the famous

The agency quietly placing staff for the famous

A feature on how PALS Recruitment became the discreet first call for high-profile individuals building the teams around them - and why the founders having 'done the job' changes everything.

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