Where are people finding all these great nannies?

[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?

Sounds like the new family wanted to make sure they weren’t poaching a nanny who was possibly going to be retained. Kudos to them!

[Anonymous]

I’ve worked for the same family for the last 10+ years. I found them here on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Are you all able to share the listserves that you used?? FTM here also and I’m definitely in the hunt!

[Anonymous]

Word of mouth from a friend. I told everyone I knew that we were looking, and a friend called me with a name of a nanny she knew was looking a few weeks later. One interview, and she was hired. Still with us two years later and we love her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

Exactly which agencies do the negotiating for the nannies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Exactly which agencies do the negotiating for the nannies?

[b]

Any agency should be negotiating for the family and the nanny. Care/sittercity are kind of places to find mediocre nannies. Go with an agency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

+1

Same here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Exactly which agencies do the negotiating for the nannies?

[b]

Any agency should be negotiating for the family and the nanny. Care/sittercity are kind of places to find mediocre nannies. Go with an agency.

Are you bitter others have found nannies without coughing up a few extra thousand dollars?

[Anonymous]

care.com

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Exactly which agencies do the negotiating for the nannies?

[b]

Any agency should be negotiating for the family and the nanny. Care/sittercity are kind of places to find mediocre nannies. Go with an agency.

Are you bitter others have found nannies without coughing up a few extra thousand dollars?

[b]

Why would I be bitter? I’m a NANNY. I was giving advice on where to find a great childcare provider.

[Anonymous]

I’ve used this forum and have been with my family for a long time. I have used agencies but some of them try to force you into jobs you don’t want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't mind the terrible English as long as she'd be able to call 911 and being understood if need be. That'd be my 1st concern.
Then, I wouldn't want my child to be speach delayed because of their nanny.

Why would your child be speech delayed - is your nanny mute?
Your child would probably just start speaking her language.
BTW your nanny may speak more languages than you do.
The average American only speaks one language - average english...

[Anonymous]

You can find a great nanny on caredotcom or sittercity.

You just have to sift through 199 candidates who aren's right for the job before you find the 200th person who is perfect or near perfect.

You need to conduct thorough interviews. Eliminate the ones who would not fit before you ever meet in person.

Look through the list of potential nannies on the website. Eliminate 80 percent of them just by looking over their profile.
Contact a few who appeal to you from reading their profile. If all goes well from chatting on the website, then you either swap personal email addresses and talk some more that way, or be brave and swap phone numbers and talk over the phone. Make a written list of at least 30 interview questions to ask over the phone.

If a person from the website still seems appealing after that, then meet in person. You can meet at Starbucks without the kids if you still want to be cautious before allowing this person to show up at your home and meet your children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't mind the terrible English as long as she'd be able to call 911 and being understood if need be. That'd be my 1st concern.
Then, I wouldn't want my child to be speach delayed because of their nanny.

If the primary caregiver has terrible English, what exactly do you expect? If she has your child for only a couple of hours a week, it’s not such a big deal.

[Anonymous]

We found our nanny right here on DCUM. We have a nanny share, and both my family and the other child's parents could not be happier with her. I truly wouldn't change a thing and will be so sad when it's time to send the kids to preschool.