Travel management companies (TMCs) provide specialist advice and expert itinerary planning to make your life much easier. Here, PA Life helps you find the TMC that’s right for you What is a TMC?Formerly called business travel agencies, they largely booked and delivered air tickets. Now, a TMC will provide expert itinerary planning and exceptional buying […]

As a way of selecting the best applicants from a wide field, a number of companies resort to using personality questionnaires nowadays. Sometimes they can be a minefield to navigate but luckily help is at hand, as assessment and development consultancy Cubiks has put together a helpful Q&A, based on comments from its candidates. The […]

There are many accounts of the shocking tasks celebrity assistants have been asked to do and now a new tell-all book shows that Hollywood’s show business executives are getting in on the act too. Lydia Whitlock worked as an assistant in various sectors of the entertainment industry for five years. While none of her bosses […]

What do a forecast of business travel trends, tips for booking chauffeur-driven cars and an update on the serviced apartments sector have in common? They’re all featured inside the latest issue of PA Life. Our PA Profile for January/February talks to Katie McEwan, who works for the CEO of lingerie retailer Ann Summers; she talks […]