Life in Private Staffing
Life in Private Staffing | 4.9 – Hannah Kennedy-Haynes, House Manager Dubai
12 Apr 2023
Today we head out to the UAE to chat with Hannah, a House Manager who has been in the industry for the last 10 years. I love talking to candidates who have made the decision to relocate and work somewhere which has such a different culture and temperature (!) to see why they decided to move and what the benefits of taking such a big step have been. We discuss the highs of working in the private sector and why she has stayed in the industry for so long. We also chat through the challenges she faces in her role, especially in a UAE household which brings numerous challenges of its own. Supported by our sponsor Kelly Dixon, Estate Management Systems and her fabulous new podcast called Dear Billionaire. Use discount code LIFE25 for any of her products or services on her website.
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Welcome to Life in Private Staffing with me, Philippa Smith, MD of Silver Swan Recruitment. As we all know, the private sector is a pretty crazy one. Not only can it be very challenging to work in, but it can be pretty lonely too, as let's face it, no one really understands what it is that we do.
So let's come together, help, support, educate and inspire one another, and hopefully we'll have a laugh along the way. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to this week's episode of Life in Private Staffing with me, Philippa Smith, as you know, MD of Silver Swan Recruitment. Hope you're all well. Hope you've all had a good week. I always say this, but I do like doing these weekly.
I seem to be just super busy recording loads of episodes. It means that we can talk to loads of different types of people. We've got loads of cool people lined up. I'm actually like really ahead for once. I've never really been this organized in my podcast. It's normally recording the day before it's released. But no, we've approached it very differently this season.
So we're really thinking about who we're getting on and making sure we get different people from different parts of the world, etc. So today we are looking forward to talking with Hannah. So Hannah is a British house manager, but based over in Dubai. And she's actually part of our UAE house manager community.
So I was really fortunate enough to meet with her when I was in Dubai just a couple of weeks ago. I had a really nice afternoon and I was like, you have to come on our podcast. I like talking to British people in different countries because I like to talk about What made them move? What are the differences?
People, you know, people here in the UK at the moment or over in the States, considering going to work in Dubai, it's good to get a bit of an insight as to life there and what they should know and if the work's much different, etc. So, lots to talk about today. Just before we do, our fabulous sponsor, Kelly Estate Management Systems. Please do go check out her website, Estate Management Systems.
All sorts of things on there to support you as an estate manager from... training, modules to project management tools. And if you haven't already, please do tune into her new podcast called Dear Billionaire. If you do purchase anything from her website, please do use discount code LIFE25 to receive 25% off. Right then, on with the show. Hello, Hannah. Welcome to the show.
Oh, thanks for having me. Oh, sorry for dragging you on. No, not at all. So just to give everyone a bit of insight, I was with you, was it how long ago? Two, three weeks ago when I came out to Dubai and joined our community event. You're part of our house for the community in Dubai. Yeah, yeah, straight on the art.
It sounded like I wasn't very eager then to join the podcast and I totally am. So thanks for having me. I'm excited to get started. Yeah, good.
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