Founded in 1974, Great Start was a pioneer in offering the first fully furnished, equipped and staffed temporary office service in Brazil. Astrid Rizzi, who was herself a top multi-lingual secretary in various international organizations before launching Great Start Executive Offices & Services, founded the company.

After several years of matching clients to candidate secretaries and other middle management staff, the company turned its attention fully to selection and placement in 1980. Currently, Great Start has a staff of consultants, working under the direction of Astrid Rizzi, and continues serving the personnel requirements of some of the foremost global organizations entering Brazil to compete in the opening up of the national market. Over the last few years, Great Start has had the pleasure of helping some of these companies. Just to name a few – Amway, Applied Communications, Bank BBA Creditanstal, Banco Union, Cafe do Ponto (Sara Lee), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Federal Express, MasterCard, Measurex, National Semiconducters, Nortel, Renault, Russel Corporation and Springer Carrier.

The Great Start promise of "Quality and Guarantee" of service extends to other areas with the increasing number of companies newly arriving in São Paulo and requiring everything from offices, furniture and equipment, etc. This is best achieved by hiring a first class completely bilingual executive secretary/office manager through Great Start.

The next requirement will be the middle management startup team where, once again Great Start has a reputation for finding and placing key personnel.

Whatever your needs, you can only gain by calling upon Great Start to assist you.