Lambent Services Founded by Pelham Resident Comes to Westchester

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Lambent Services New York City founded by Pelham Manor resident opens a branch to serve Westchester County and Fairfield 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, 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 Westchester and Fairfield counties,” Glist said.

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 qualified 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,” Glist said. "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 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 setup 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 at Lambent Services. The new office, located in Westchester, already has an impressive roster of talent in their personal assistant pool.

The talent 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. The roster of 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.

In order to hire an assistant,  Lambent Services goes through a thorough assessment with 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 their preferred schedule for working with a part-time personal assistant would be.

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 Lambent Services in Westchester, call the Director; Geraldine Sheridan or the Director of Client Services; Jesse van Buren at: 914-338-7225. The company website: lambentservices.com

Lambent services has been featured in;  “The Daily News,” “The New York Post,” CNN Money.com, “Pulse,” “Worth” magazine, “Maxim,” “Radar,” “Urban Daddy,” “Daily Candy,” and “Wallet Pop,” and on television on “Fox 5 News.”