Puerto Rico Domestic Staffing
From A-list celebrities to high-net worth icons, founder and CEO Peter O’Donovan has decades of experience in successfully placing all functions for household and administrative roles. Peter and his staff specialize in highly-scrutinized placements to meet the most discreet and specialized needs for their clients. Experience unparalleled service when filling your needs for domestic staffing in Puerto Rico. At IDC, we understand every residence has its unique needs. It starts with us listening closely to your requirements, then exceeding your expectations every time we onboard a qualified addition to your staff, including:
Kristina is IDC's trusted representative in Puerto Rico, leveraging her deep local knowledge and extensive network to connect clients with top-tier domestic staff. A proud Puerto Rican native, she has a background in Property Management, Construction Project Management, and Executive Household Roles, which give her a unique understanding of the high standards and specific needs of clients relocating to or already residing on the island. Kristina's strong local connections across the San Juan and Dorado municipalities help her make it happen, , and ensure she can deliver tailored staffing solutions to meet every client's needs. Kristina has additionally been working with ACT 60 participants since 2014, guiding them on the relocation process.
Peter is the owner of International Domestic Staffing, a premier U.S.-based agency specializing in luxury household placements. Over his 30 year career, Peter has worked for some of the wealthiest families in the world. This experience gives him a unique insight into understanding the staffing needs of discerning clients; enabling him to provide just the right candidate (both skills and personality-match) for a position. Peter has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, Gourmet, and The Boston Globe for his efforts. He excels in sourcing top-tier domestic staff for households worldwide, and in Puerto Rico where he visits often.
Hire a Private Chef
Peter O’Donovan has decades of experience as an executive chef and has been featured in global publications for his expert abilities to find the right chef for high-net worth households. After all, life’s not only about fine dining experiences for dinner parties, but there’s the daily food management services needed for grocery shopping and meal prep to feed the family and their guests. Private chefs are typically full-time employees, who may live with the employer or nearby to be on call to cook at any time.
Although there are no hard clad rules for a private chef’s job description, a personal chef is usually considered to be a senior staff member and may oversee cooks and supervise servers as well as provide meals for members of your domestic staff. Once IDC understands your expectations, Peter and his team will find someone who is the right fit. We specialize in placing vetted chefs with a passion for preparing seasonally inspired, nutritious meals, including the culinary skills to develop menus for specific dietary needs.
At International Domestic Consulting, we also can find the right private chef based on your travel requirements. Someone who clearly understands and has the culinary experience of performing their role in private service. IDC’s patented approach to staffing ensures a strong onboarding that goes well beyond the typical orientation. That way your private chef will have a clear understanding of household protocols as well as the tools they need to seamlessly elevate your food experience.
Hire Butler in Puerto Rico
Traditionally hired to oversee an estate home, today’s modern butler needs to have a thorough understanding of home care and possess the supervisory skills to oversee staff and onsite workers. Their primary responsibilities include being well-versed in serving etiquette and preparation for special events while caring for people’s needs to ensure everyone’s comfort during their visit. Peter O’Donovan understands every aspect of onboarding staff for individuals of utmost luxury and refined taste.
Although the exact duties of a butler will vary based on the employer’s requirements, they are senior members of the domestic household staff. Butlers have to wear many hats, such as a majordomo, chief of staff or estate administrator. Their spectrum of duties can include making travel arrangements, managing your wine cellar, looking after your yacht, getting the kids ready for school, overseeing dinner parties, and serving as liaison to chauffeurs and other personnel.
At the top of their list of qualities, a butler must be loyal, discrete and respectful of the family’s privacy with high levels of attention to detail. Staying calm under pressure by being a proactive problem solver in today’s world means being computer literate. At IDC we offer bespoke services to ensure our placement is the best match for you and your existing staff. Exceptional levels of common sense and confidence in diagnosing and fixing problems are a must. Let IDC find you someone with impeccable service and home management skills.
Hire Driver in Puerto Rico
Hiring a personal driver or chauffeur can take the stress out of traveling to and from your destinations. Plus, it affords the flexibility to make last-minute changes to your schedule without worrying about the logistics of getting from point A to point B. Most chauffeurs have the skills to operate luxury vehicles like a limousine or expensive sedan, but IDC can also provide a personal driver that is skilled in keeping your vehicles well-maintained and polished to perfection.
Whether you’re a full-time resident or part-time traveler to Puerto Rico, Peter O’Donovan and his staff can help you sit back and relax by having a skilled driver. That way you arrive feeling calm and collected. In addition to having evasive and defensive driving skills, we can place a highly vetted chauffeur with years of safe driving experience. Moreover, our driver placements are well-groomed, will adhere to your dress code, and understand that their demeanor must meet the highest standards of politeness.
Not surprisingly in today’s world, most personal drivers who work for private households are multi-taskers who can take on duties other than keeping vehicles clean and polished. Some are experienced in techniques for passenger protection or can take on administrative responsibilities for logistics and travel. IDC’s placement of private drivers goes well beyond the traditional staffer who opens car doors for occupants and assists with luggage. Our goal is to always match the right person to your purpose and needs.
Hire a Houskeeper in Puerto Rico
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to placing candidates for domestic staff. When you choose to partner with International Domestic Consulting, Peter O’Donovan understands each household’s needs will differ. For that reason, our team focuses on qualifying the right person for the job. Rather than simply filling a traditional job opening, our bespoke staffing services can include vetting placements with multiple housekeeper skill sets to meet an expanded list of duties and responsibilities.
If you need highly vetted assistance for caring for the home as well as for the family and/or children, IDC is well experienced at qualifying and onboarding a candidate for a hybrid role. House managers, housekeepers, and nannies are all essential roles that can be correctly tailored to ensure your house runs smoothly. Often a second residence can be successfully managed by a multi-task staffer, whereas larger estate homes may need a domestic manager or house manager with the skill sets to manage a parttime staff.
IDC can place vetted housekeeper staff for traditional household positions or locate the ideal fit for a modern-day service position that combines tasks for cleaning, childcare, transportation, shopping, cooking, or household management. High profile families often require a nanny with special skills to deal with the ever-changing family dynamics. This may include a broad range of nanny positions for live-in or travel-related job descriptions, including childcare, cleaning, tutoring, and other activities.
Hire Yacht Stew and Crew
Puerto Rico is a vibrant US territory and a dream destination for yacht enthusiasts. Positioned between the Dominican Republic and the British Virgin Islands, this picturesque archipelago is the smallest island of the Greater Antilles. With the mighty Atlantic Ocean to the north and the serene Caribbean Sea to the south, Puerto Rico offers ideal conditions for exploring its azure waters. The Spanish Virgin Islands off the east coast, including Culebra and Vieques, boast white-sand beaches, colorful coral reefs, and idyllic settings perfect for a relaxing adventure.
Whether you’re planning a getaway with family, friends or colleagues, Peter O’Donovan can place the perfect crew to suit your vessel’s unique needs. Yacht crews typically include a skipper (the Captain and person in charge), a stew (steward or stewardess with client-facing responsibilities in caring for the vessel’s interior), and the yacht size may also require a crew (chef, deckhands, or additional stewards). For a more tailored experience, you can even hire additional staff, such as a nanny or diving instructor.
At International Domestic Consulting, our goal is to ensure your crew creates a relaxing and enjoyable onboard atmosphere while taking care of the yacht’s interior/exterior, running tenders to get guests ashore and collect provisions, acting as lookouts, and coordinating as a team to ensure smooth and safe berthing. With all these elements in place, your crew will maintain full compliance with maritime regulations so your yachting in Puerto Rico is both a seamless and unforgettable experience.
Hire a Nanny or Tutor
Peter O’Donovan’s decades of experience allows him to understand the strong bond that children develop with their nanny, so we always listen carefully as the family explains their expectations and needs. Unlike a sitter, a nanny is always on duty when they are caring for others. In addition, a nanny must have complete respect for a family’s privacy and remain transparent regarding all matters. That’s why we take special care in vetting candidates to ensure they thoroughly understand your family’s needs.
Where the traditional baby nanny is usually hired after the child’s birth to provide ongoing childcare, a doula also cares for the mother before and after a child is born. A baby nanny is a specialist that has the necessary training and experience to provide non-medical care for infants and newborns. They may also be responsible for everything related to childcare needs, including managing the baby’s schedule, meal preparation for the infant, packing for trips, and taking care of baby items at-home and on the road.
High net worth families often choose to hire a governess over a tutor. Whereas a tutor is primarily responsible for supplementing the child’s education to help slow-learners with a particular subject, a tutor nanny or governess may have responsibility for full-time education and the development of early social skills. Both a traditional nanny and a tutor nanny can be responsible for picking up, cleaning and straightening the child’s room as well as supervising the daily completion of their homework.
About the IDC Approach
Before inviting a potential candidate to your home for a face-to-face interview, Peter O’Donovan and his team will have conducted a thorough background, and references check. A one-on-one interview can provide you with an opportunity to ask revealing questions, observe the candidate’s body language, and identify any red flags that give you concern. Once the ideal candidate is found, IDC will handle the onboarding to assure a seamless transition with your existing workforce and the family.
If you’re ready to experience distinctive personal services that are scaled to your lifestyle, Peter’s honed skills for training and placing vetted domestic support and estate management services have been commissioned worldwide. International Domestic Consulting is currently a staffing consultation services provider referred to Chubb PRS Clients.
Our goal is to take the hassle out of recruiting, training and onboarding domestic staff at all levels and for any unique set of tasks they will be asked to perform. International Domestic Consulting also provides services for training and periodic check-ins to ensure staff members proficiency, diligence and unwavering commitment. When you work with us, its all about fostering a relationship of trust by catering services to your specific needs with an end goal of elevating your comfort for luxury living.
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