Would you enjoy managing others to serve the wealthy? Consider a career in Private Service Management through Starkey International Institute.
The Starkey International Institute is celebrating its 35th year in certifying and placing qualified individuals from all walks of life as a second or third career in the profession of Household and Estate Management to manage the homes and estates of the wealthy in the United States and worldwide. These can be personally and financially gratifying positions of which most professionals are unaware or don’t have access to. Salaries in general, not including housing or benefits, range from a low of $50,000 to well over $100,000 annually depending on one’s education and experience.
Furthermore we have financial assistance if needed to help each qualified person desiring to attend our world class, comprehensive certification programs designed to prepare him or her for his or her new career. We also have an experienced placement department dedicated to assisting each Starkey Certified Private Service Management Professional in acquiring full time employment thereafter.
If you are interested in learning more about this rewarding, yet little known, vocation please contact us!
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Dear Starkey Patron;
Starkey International and I extend our sincere appreciation to you for your donation to Restoring the Art (RTA) Student Assistance Fund. RTA is a not-for-profit and maintains its 501c(3) status. Starkey and 4,000 other small vocational schools lost all funding support in the recent economic turn and we are most grateful for your generosity.
All donations will be utilized to support student’s efforts in attending Starkey and entering the Private Service Industry as an educated professional. Service has long been seen as a non-educable and domestic population, which continues to serve a servant mentality and a historical slave cycle. To continue to have service providers available to the high-net-worth, Service must continue to be elevated to an educated “Service as an Expertise” and as a Profession.
My great appreciation,
Mary Louise Starkey
First Lady of Service
CEO Starkey International
I am frustrated today with the level of knowledge a few of my current students have exhibited. Now in week four and having completed approximately 150 hours of Starkey education, they have not taken on the conscientiousness or service savvy one would hope for. While they are indeed serious students, how hard can it be to just bring in my daily lunch without someone holding their hand? Sound familiar? “How hard can it be to perform simple tasks?”
In the world of education we all want to be shown exactly how things are done in order to be successful. However, in private service, each Principal may give these students unique directions on how to accomplish a specific task. Now, this is week four, as I stated, and I have held the hand of the first three students who have carried out this somewhat simplified task. They each request that they be individually instructed, as opposed to learning from each other. On the other side of the coin, these are not beginners to service we are educating; these are bright Household Management students expecting to take over the overall management of sophisticated homes. Are we ever in trouble! In reading other industry newsletters over the years, one reads about how to polish silver, wash a fine piece of china, and of course iron a shirt. On the NBC Today Show, Ms. Martha Stewart said a white shirt could be ironed in 10 minutes but Matt Lauer was still stumbling after 20 minutes.
But we are speaking of just bringing in lunch here, not a highly technical, product proven skill! So I began to consider the number of factors associated with bringing in lunch. They have to include: intrusion into someone’s space, privacy of the activities being performed within the space, is the person hungry, what is the lunch, how do you interrupt to ask if I am interested in eating, knowing what the culinary offering of the Chef is, how the food was prepared, what is in the recipe, what beverage would go with the food, where to position the tray, how to put the tray in front of me without disturbing me as I am on the phone, taking just the plate off the tray, and placing it before me as to accommodate a small amount of available desk space, where to stand when doing so, and if one should speak to me or not — to just name a few of the factors. This is a great exercise in service delivery.
In the end, Service Management is 60% psychologically understanding who you are serving and their specific expectations. The balance is technical and you really have to know your Principal.
