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Individual employers

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Our Employing personal assistants toolkit will help you to think about your responsibilities as an employer, and includes guidance, templates and resources about recruiting, training and managing your team. 
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Being an employer

#1

Recruiting a PA

This section guides you through the process of recruiting a personal assistant, including advertising, the application form and interviewing.

#2

Before your PA starts

This section outlines the key tasks that you should do before your personal assistant starts work.

#3

Managing and developing your PA

This section explains what you need to do once your personal assistant starts work and explains more about training.

#4

Sorting out problems

This section explains how you can sort out some of the problems that you might come across.

#5

Templates

This section links to useful templates to help you when employing a personal assistant.