Where are people finding all these great nannies?

[Anonymous]

I get an email about an available nanny, with great accolades, probably 1x a week on my neighborhood list serv. Does your area have one? If not I recommend starting one, it's so fantastic and community building!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We found our nanny through neighbors after a bunch of bad interviews. She had nannied for another family and the mom who recommended her to us was friends with them and had met her at the bus stop. It was luck. But maybe talk to your neighbors or people at your preschool or wherever and see if you can gt any leads. Our youngest starts school in the fall and another family down the street has already asked me about hiring our nanny at that time.

The family asked you and not the nanny, right?

Yes. One of my neighbors spoke to me to confirm that we would no longer be using our nanny after our youngest child starts K in the fall. I confirmed that we would not (something that has been long discussed with our nanny, we're all on the same page).
Then my neighbor asked if I would mind if she spoke to our nanny at some point to see whether she would be interested in coming to work for them after she is finished working with us. I don't and I gave our nanny a head's up that this mom may approach her at some point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get an email about an available nanny, with great accolades, probably 1x a week on my neighborhood list serv. Does your area have one? If not I recommend starting one, it's so fantastic and community building!

I'm a little suspicious of all the recommendations for fantastic nannies because "our needs have changed" with little notice. I noticed on my listserv that some nannies were getting those glowing recommendations every few months. I think the best of the best never need to be advertised because they are passed along to friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get an email about an available nanny, with great accolades, probably 1x a week on my neighborhood list serv. Does your area have one? If not I recommend starting one, it's so fantastic and community building!

I'm a little suspicious of all the recommendations for fantastic nannies because "our needs have changed" with little notice. I noticed on my listserv that some nannies were getting those glowing recommendations every few months. I think the best of the best never need to be advertised because they are passed along to friends

Lots of people don’t have friends who happen to need a nanny right at that very moment and lots of nannies can’t standby for a perfect job.

[Anonymous]

I found my fantastic nanny through sittercity.com. We have had her for almost 6 years. She is from Paraguay. English is great. She has a college degree. We pay her a salary of $50k which comes out to $17 something an hour for the first 40 hours and $25 something for the 10 hours of overtime she works. The key to finding a good nanny is talking to references.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We found our nanny through neighbors after a bunch of bad interviews. She had nannied for another family and the mom who recommended her to us was friends with them and had met her at the bus stop. It was luck. But maybe talk to your neighbors or people at your preschool or wherever and see if you can gt any leads. Our youngest starts school in the fall and another family down the street has already asked me about hiring our nanny at that time.

The family asked you and not the nanny, right?

Why? Nannies are human beings. They have the right to learn about and explore other job possibilities. Their bosses are not their mothers or their owners and conversations about jobs should not go through them.

[Anonymous]

Former teacher from daycare.

[Anonymous]

My next door neighbor thinks her nanny is the BEST. Her nanny hangs in the lobby of our building all day on her blue tooth talking to whoever completely ignoring the little boy she watches. People think they have great nanny’s and the reality is that many don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My next door neighbor thinks her nanny is the BEST. Her nanny hangs in the lobby of our building all day on her blue tooth talking to whoever completely ignoring the little boy she watches. People think they have great nanny’s and the reality is that many don’t.

Good way to get around nanny cams.

[Anonymous]

We sucked it up and paid for an agency. They only provided vetted, high quality candidates who met our requirements on schedule and salary. We did initial interviews with six candidates, brought three back for second interviews / trial days, and made an offer to our current nanny. This cost us $2800 but it was worth every penny in time saved (the agency also handled reference questionnaires, background checks, helped us set up payroll, etc.).

[Anonymous]

MOTH

[Anonymous]

I interviewed 5 nannies recommended on moms lostserves. Two were native English speakers and wanted $20 and hour. One was a day care worker. We ended up going with someone else who we loved (fluent in our native language) but there are good quality candidates out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found ours through care.com - but you have to be prepared to sift through a LOT of applications

+1

[Anonymous]

English speaking, college educated career nanny here-

You will find us through an agency. Agencies usually have the best jobs and we feel protected because the agents negotiate guaranteed hours and benefits and holidays, so that’s where you will find us. People looking for in between jobs or just doing nannying here and there are on care.com and sittercity etc. Hope that helps! You’re offering a good rate so you should be able to find someone great!

[Anonymous]

MONA if you’re in Arlington.