Jill Glist of Pelham expands Lambent Services NYC to serve Westchester and Fairfield Counties

Jill Glist of Pelham founder and President of Lambent Services New York City opens a branch to serve Fairfield County and Westchester County.

Lambent Services is an agency that has been supplying personal assistants on a long-term part-time or per project basis to people needing help in their homes, offices or home offices in New York City. The company has been operating in New York City since 2006.

Lambent Services was founded by Jill Glist, a Westchester resident who lives in Pelham Manor. For years, Ms. Glist has been using personal assistants in her own home to help her with the running of her household with a husband and two children. “I realized there is a big need for a company like ours in Fairfield and Westchester counties,” says Ms. Glist.

Lambent Services specializes in assistants who are an elite group of intelligent, motivated, and personable individuals and are graduates of some of the country’s best universities. Many assistants on the roster work for Lambent Services part-time while they pursue other interests.  This has allowed Lambent to attract very experienced assistants with varied skill sets.

“The current economy gives us access to amazingly qualified people who are interested and available to work as personal assistants,” says Glist, "Everyone needs some personal help, and the best person to get it from is someone who is efficient and intelligent. Most of our assistants are often from highly competitive, top tier and sometimes Ivy League schools, and are available to work part-time because they have elected to follow a non-traditional career path.”

Among the many things a Lambent personal assistant can do are:  transform a makeshift at-home office into a working office; sort through boxes of paperwork and business cards; organize closets; organize kitchens; clean out a garage; organize a yard sale; figure out a purging and filing system for documents; set up auto-pay billing; tax prep; bookkeeping; decorating; party planning; running errands; buying groceries; composing letters; writing school and grant applications; booking flights; paying bills; returning calls; retrieving dry cleaning; bookkeeping; computer set up and maintenance; correspondence; diet design and supervision; editing; exercise enforcement; health insurance reconciliation; hiring other staff; internet research; meal preparation; packing and unpacking for travel or for a move; photo organization; and second home maintenance.

Basically, they do everything they can to make a client’s life run more smoothly.

All assistants go through a rigorous interview process and a thorough background check by Lambent Services. The new office, located in Westchester, already has an impressive pool of assistants in the new Lambent office in are highly educated (one actually speaks four languages), degree holding (some have a Master’s) exceedingly qualified assistants. These assistants include a former Director of Media Operations; a former assistant editor of  Vogue; a former publisher;  a project manager who has handled million dollar renovation projects;  a former election campaign advisor; a yoga teacher;  a decorative arts expert; a former assistant to a director of a large company; a former celebrity nanny; a marketing analyst; an attorney; a stock trader; a former art director/packaging designer; a health and wellness expert and a former assistant to a CEO.

When placing assistants, Lambent Services thoroughly assesses each potential client to ascertain what skills they will need in a personal assistant, what kind of personality they like to work with, and what is their preferred work schedule.

Next, Lambent sends the client three dossiers of potential personal assistants.  This gives the client an opportunity to choose which person they feel would work best for them.

Shifts are typically four hours or more and can be a one-off session or continual. 

Simply put, Lambent Services is dedicated to bringing personal assistants to people who value high-quality individualized assistance in their home, business or home office.

To contact the new Lambent Services branch dedicated to serving Connecticut and Westchester, call the Director Geraldine Sheridan at: 914-338-7225. The company website is www.lambentservices.com

Lambent Services has been featured in;  The Daily News, The New York Post,  CNN Money.com, Pulse, Worth, Maxim, Radar, Urban Daddy, Daily Candy, and Wallet Pop, and on television on Fox 5 News. Most recently Lambent Services has been featured in the January 2012 edition of Smart Money who noted that Lambent Services is a great way to outsource errands.