stop sharing your religion!
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Anonymous
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Dear APs,
Stop sharing your religion. Noone cares and it doesn't give you a leg up in the interview. thanks. |
Anonymous
| Hm, I've never seen this happen. In all my years interviewing, I've only come across one woman who makes her political views very prominent, but it's easy to avoid candidates like that. |
Anonymous
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I disagree as a long time HM. For me the signaling of being religius has reflected alignment with my family's values -
- not necessarily the same denomination or anything but just general understanding. |
Anonymous
| . In the past, we've had an AP who said she was fine with a non-Christian family. However, it turns out she didn't really understand what it meant...and there were some serious anti-islamic views coming out of her. And when I told her that those views hurt my family (we are Indian Hindu), she was like, "why you are not Muslim?" I said, It doesn't matter. We can still be lumped in, and even if we weren't lumped in, we don't want those views. So if I see someone sharing how religous they are, I want to see if they are open to religiouns outside of theirs--nor families who are not religious |
Anonymous
| Long time HM here. It never bothered me one way or another if APs share their religion on their profile. |
Anonymous
| If a religion is important to an AP...wouldn't you want to know that ahead of time, OP, rather than find out once she arrives at your house? If religion is not your thing that's fine, just better to know where everyone stands ahead of time, so you can find the right match. Hence why being honest in interviews is important... |
Anonymous
It's on their aupair questionnaire. I think it's bizarre that it wouldn't be shared. |
Anonymous
Speak for yourself. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
I find it humourous when current APs spam the nanny boards and write their religion their too. It's really not a qualification to be a nanny! |
Anonymous
Some families use it as the initial criteria, especially for a live-in nanny or a nanny expected to take the child(ren) to religious school or services. |
Anonymous
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That's funny. I applied to be an Au Pair in 1996. The application asked about religion. I asked what religion was. The agency told me to write Lutheran.
I ended up in a family in Brookeville Maryland that were very Catholic. The parents were Joseph and Mary. I kid you not. Nuns came to the house even. They never took me to church or taught me to say grace. I think they were glad I was an ex communist and stayed out of religion. |
Anonymous
Then hire a Nanny and not an AP. Wait, don’t have means to pay a nanny, thats right. Then suck it up and deal with it! |
Anonymous
| Yeah we definitely appreciated people sharing that info about themselves. We are atheist and we wanted someone who would be compatible with that, since we'll be spending a ton of time together. |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous]I disagree as a long time HM. For me the signaling of being religius has reflected alignment with my family's values -
- not necessarily the same denomination or anything but just general understanding. [/quote] I couldn't agree more. |