Traditional recruiting couldn't keep up so this global organization turned to Prialto for an outsourced admin team.

The organization’s leadership team was growing faster than it could recruit, hire, and train executive assistants. The Vice President of Finance and Operations is responsible for executive support, and they needed to speed things up. 

"We found some great traditional recruiters, but we still couldn't hire fast enough," the VP said. "We also wanted to look outside the box of the traditional 1-1 executive to admin model because our executives and their team's needs differ significantly."  

The organization’s executives include scientists, educators, academics, investors, analysts, program leaders, and operational staff in HR, events, and other corporate functions. "What appealed to us about Prialto was their team approach—we hoped that Prialto would enable us to scale faster and tailor services for each executive."   

Hiring executive assistants one by one was not working, and the company did not want to be in the business of hiring and managing dozens of assistants. The VP liked Prialto's managed service model, where Prialto hires, onboards, trains, and manages remote executive assistants, so the service does not add any HR or management overhead. Executives document their task requirements with Prialto's Engagement Managers, and Prialto adds virtual assistants with the skills and experience they need.  

"We were growing faster than we could hire executive support and traditional recruiting couldn't keep up."

--Vice President of Finance and Operations 

Adding administrative support for a fast-growing executive team to free executives to focus on their programs and initiatives. 

Prialto worked with the team to identify five executives with distinct types of responsibilities for a pilot program to test the service:  

1. The Head of Talent oversaw the pilot as a potential company-wide staffing model.  
2. The Executive Director of a multi-million-dollar talent program focused on identifying the world's most exceptional students and supporting their visions. 
3. The Director of Strategy oversees ten programs worldwide and has an extraordinarily complex calendar.  
4. The Director of Recruiting is tasked with doubling the organization’s headcount in a year.  
5. A Senior Manager who plans 60 events a year, from dinner gatherings to week-long conferences to VIP retreats.  

"So many of us were buried in task management and needed support desperately," said the Head of Talent. "I wanted to get help to as many people as possible, but we had to prove the concept first."  

Calendar Management

"Coordinating meetings with large global teams is incredibly time-consuming," the Head of Talent said. "A lot of them are meeting with very high-profile scientists, government officials, and authors that expect white glove treatment. The Prialto assistants just took it on and ran with it and have been practically flawless."  

Travel and Expense Management

"It can take one person several hours to plan a long business trip, and then they return with expenses from multiple countries and currencies. Expense account support was the number one need for many of us. Prialto assistants are travel and expense wizards."  

CRM Contact Management 

"The volume of contacts we're working with is huge, and we use different CRMs for different functions.” The Prialto team seems to have experts for every business tool."