Are you envying people working and enjoying working as a couple? You are right then, this is one of the best decision to improve your mental health and private assets. The pandemic helped many people realized that they are a strong couple, they could help and support each other through the lock-down. Reflectively, this indicates strong bonds and a capacity to be together, with the strength to overcome tensions. Now, back to almost normal working life, some couples are tempted to continue the experience to work as a team. Also, the development of working from home has woken up the cook lying inside many people, and the maintenance of a living place does not seem so terribly difficult if compared with the past.
Where to start ?
Firstly, you have to have a very detailed discussion about working as a pair. If you decide to work together for a family, it may help to read attentively multiple job offers for couples to determine where you are corresponding to the highest percentage. Some jobs request experience and letters of recommendation for maintaining estates. In this case, it is always helpful to organize how you can show that you are trustworthy. Letters of recommendation are a strong element, think about any former employer and if you haven’t got the document already, ask for it.
Then, you have to prepare the job interview. Since you also may be interviewed together, you have some rehearsals here to do before the big day! It would be a mistake if one of you speak on top of the other, or if one of you contradict the other. Also, if one of the members of the couple hardly speak, this is not sending a good signal. You really need to show you can work as a team and support each other. You have to analyze the job offers you are answering. Furthermore, you have to scan the offer and discuss the pivotal questions, such as :
- Do you know the whereabouts of the estate?
- Are you good drivers?
- Can you deal with pets if it is requested?
Some families will be in-house, with small children, others will be with visiting grow-up children. Some other offers request a full estate maintenance and the villa will be occupied for holidays and parties. So, if you have been working in catering it would be useful but not only. You have to explain how you can be responsible for precious artefacts and reactive should any problem arise. The owners in general hate micromanagement. For them, it is exactly the opposite.
They expect to arrive or to live at their place and be discharged of any difficulties about the gardens, the pool, and the mansion. This means clearly that your spouse is also your best friend, that you can rely on each other to discuss any issue. Another positive characteristic to forward is your capacity to remain silent about your employers. Contrary to the expectations of some, who are making money on giving some information about their private life to the public, most of the people do not wish at all to have their private life splashed out in social media.
