how many au pairs go into rematch?

[Anonymous]

30 to 40% seems right to me, based on my many years of being a HM and hearing about all the rematches from my AP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a HM and I would like transparency on this issue as well. It would help everyone to understand that it may, indeed, happen. It would also help the potential APs understand their risks as well. That said, they should also publish the stats for what % of APs rematch and then finish out their year.

I'd also like to know- what % of APs match or don't match in the first place.

+1,000,000
What % of APs leave the program before their contract year is completed?

[Anonymous]

30-40% seems really high -- why would anyone stay in the program if every one in three is a dud or leaves? I feel like the families that have been in it the longest say about 1 out of 8 or so. Maybe those families have a higher tolerance or are better host families??

It would be nice to have some real statistics, but I'm guessing it doesn't benefit the businesses (i.e. what parent or au pair would sign up if they knew 40% didn't have a successful match).

My LCC mentioned that most rematches seemed to be initiated by the parents so it wasn't that the au pairs necessarily picked up and left unless the situation was bad or they had unrealistic expectations of the job. But that still doesn't answer the question. Why so many unsuccessful matches?

Some of the companies would be wise to produce an hour long training video the parents haven't to watch before they match so they also have realistic expectations. I truly didn't know what to expect the first time. But the one piece of friend I received from a friend that I took to heart was -- if you want the program to work, you have to accept them into your family and we aim to do that. Fingers crossed.

[Anonymous]

PP raises good point. But can't really look at it that way. Many families leave the program have a couple unsuccessful attempts. The families with only 1 in 8 rematch stayed in program and clearly have great screening skills.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our agency told us the rate is approximately 33%. Our coordinator's rate seems much lower (very small cluster though).

Will they confirm this in writing? Or not?

I never asked. And don't care really.
We had one rematch in 15 years. We rematched an AP who left our 1 year old and 3 year old alone for "just a second" (the second was long enough for me to come home for lunch, make myself a sandwich and wait another two or three minutes for her to show up, I don't know how long she was gone but would assume five to ten minutes at least) and who forgot to pick up our 13 year old at baseball practice, she did ask his older brother where he was and when older brother said he didn't know she left to meet friends. She was a great driver, good English, mediocre housemate but made horrible decisions. We are now on our last AP (youngest is aging out) and except for her all our matches were more or less successful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our agency told us the rate is approximately 33%. Our coordinator's rate seems much lower (very small cluster though).

Will they confirm this in writing? Or not?

Are you affiliated with the program? I don't know any host parents who are so concerned with the national average.

And to that point, if you are that interested, please call yourself and report your findings.

Everyone has a right to know your basic statistics of failure or success. Surely you must keep these numbers. How else would you evaluate the abilities of your employees?

But anyone who's a part of the program cares how the facts break down for their region, their LCC, and the factors that are relevant to them. The fact that APs assigned to families in the middle of nowhere might bail after realizing how lonely it is aren't relevant to HFs in DC. Or the high rematch rate with LCC's who are quick to say "rematch!" instead of trying to mediate situations are also not relevant to those of us in clusters that have more stable dynamics. In my area, half the current APs have extended with the same family for a second year and I have yet to meet any rematches originating in our cluster, though we have had a couple APs relocate to our area after rematching from another area. So for me, what does it matter if the national average rematch rate is 15% or 40%?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our agency told us the rate is approximately 33%. Our coordinator's rate seems much lower (very small cluster though).

Will they confirm this in writing? Or not?

Are you affiliated with the program? I don't know any host parents who are so concerned with the national average.

And to that point, if you are that interested, please call yourself and report your findings.

Everyone has a right to know your basic statistics of failure or success. Surely you must keep these numbers. How else would you evaluate the abilities of your employees?

But anyone who's a part of the program cares how the facts break down for their region, their LCC, and the factors that are relevant to them. The fact that APs assigned to families in the middle of nowhere might bail after realizing how lonely it is aren't relevant to HFs in DC. Or the high rematch rate with LCC's who are quick to say "rematch!" instead of trying to mediate situations are also not relevant to those of us in clusters that have more stable dynamics. In my area, half the current APs have extended with the same family for a second year and I have yet to meet any rematches originating in our cluster, though we have had a couple APs relocate to our area after rematching from another area. So for me, what does it matter if the national average rematch rate is 15% or 40%?

Of course you should want to learn your local stats, as well as the national stats so you can compare agencies, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my experience with three agencies over 10 years, the LCCs are pretty open about these numbers with HFs and APs. They will absolutely give you rough numbers from their experience and will also tell you which nationalities have the higher rates of AP-initiated rematch and HF-initiated rematch and also which nationalities tend to have the highest rates of driving-related rematches.

If you are a legitimate HP, you should just ask your LCC or AD.

Yup.

I'm in Ashburn and our LCC said that every single Asian AP she has had has gone into rematch foe driving.

She has 35 families and said that she deals with approx 3 rematch a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my experience with three agencies over 10 years, the LCCs are pretty open about these numbers with HFs and APs. They will absolutely give you rough numbers from their experience and will also tell you which nationalities have the higher rates of AP-initiated rematch and HF-initiated rematch and also which nationalities tend to have the highest rates of driving-related rematches.

If you are a legitimate HP, you should just ask your LCC or AD.

Yup.

I'm in Ashburn and our LCC said that every single Asian AP she has had has gone into rematch foe driving.

She has 35 families and said that she deals with approx 3 rematch a year.

Yup, when you "just ask" they can just tell you anything they want.

When these au pair businesses are legally required to disclose their stats (national and local) on their website, they can't "just tell" you anything they want.

There's a good reason these numbers are kept secret......

[Anonymous]

I've never asked the stats, but our Au pairs have told us which of their friends have re-matched. I had one Au pair who had a group of friends that stayed with their original families; I had another Au pair whose friends, every single one, had re-matched at least twice. Peer support or peer pressure may be a part of the re-match rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my experience with three agencies over 10 years, the LCCs are pretty open about these numbers with HFs and APs. They will absolutely give you rough numbers from their experience and will also tell you which nationalities have the higher rates of AP-initiated rematch and HF-initiated rematch and also which nationalities tend to have the highest rates of driving-related rematches.

If you are a legitimate HP, you should just ask your LCC or AD.

Yup.

I'm in Ashburn and our LCC said that every single Asian AP she has had has gone into rematch foe driving.

She has 35 families and said that she deals with approx 3 rematch a year.

Yup, when you "just ask" they can just tell you anything they want.

When these au pair businesses are legally required to disclose their stats (national and local) on their website, they can't "just tell" you anything they want.

There's a good reason these numbers are kept secret......

I don't think you understand statistics, PP. So what if every agency published their statistics for the percentages of au pairs that go into rematch or return home in a year. What do you think that tells you about the agency? Not a lot, really. Why? Because there are several possible reasons au pairs go into rematch that have little or absolutely nothing to do with the agency. So, these percentages can't really tell you how successful an agency is. In fact, it's about as useful as a percentage of overall matches.

If you want to know how successful an agency is, you need a lot more information than this, and contrary to your earlier post, "everybody" does not have the "right' to this information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my experience with three agencies over 10 years, the LCCs are pretty open about these numbers with HFs and APs. They will absolutely give you rough numbers from their experience and will also tell you which nationalities have the higher rates of AP-initiated rematch and HF-initiated rematch and also which nationalities tend to have the highest rates of driving-related rematches.

If you are a legitimate HP, you should just ask your LCC or AD.

Yup.

I'm in Ashburn and our LCC said that every single Asian AP she has had has gone into rematch foe driving.

She has 35 families and said that she deals with approx 3 rematch a year.

Yup, when you "just ask" they can just tell you anything they want.

When these au pair businesses are legally required to disclose their stats (national and local) on their website, they can't "just tell" you anything they want.

There's a good reason these numbers are kept secret......

I don't think you understand statistics, PP. So what if every agency published their statistics for the percentages of au pairs that go into rematch or return home in a year. What do you think that tells you about the agency? Not a lot, really. Why? Because there are several possible reasons au pairs go into rematch that have little or absolutely nothing to do with the agency. So, these percentages can't really tell you how successful an agency is. In fact, it's about as useful as a percentage of overall matches.

If you want to know how successful an agency is, you need a lot more information than this, and contrary to your earlier post, "everybody" does not have the "right' to this information.

Rematch stats have *everything* to do with your agency, as the agency PICKS both the au pairs AND the employers. No one is looking for zero rematches, but the more you have, the worse it looks. That is clear.

[Anonymous]

Here are my stats.

6 stayed a year or more.

6 rematches. 3 initiated by us, three by au pairs.

Out of the rematches, four were because i didn't screen for what turned out to be a problem, i have learned from those experiences. Of those four one should havr never been an au pair, one was too immature to make safe decision s for really small kids, two were personality misfits for our family.
One remstch was a Thai girl who asked for a rematvh three months in and never intended to find snother family, instead eloping with her American boyfrirnd. Now chalk it up to a cultural misfit with our family and i won't match with Asians now, their conflict avoidant communication style feels like a string of white lies to me.
One of six rematches still haunts me. She interviewed perfect and turned out to be a chronic but very artful lyer who put my kids in danger many times (as i discovered after dhe was gone...). But that was years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are my stats.

6 stayed a year or more.

6 rematches. 3 initiated by us, three by au pairs.

Out of the rematches, four were because i didn't screen for what turned out to be a problem, i have learned from those experiences. Of those four one should havr never been an au pair, one was too immature to make safe decision s for really small kids, two were personality misfits for our family.
One remstch was a Thai girl who asked for a rematvh three months in and never intended to find snother family, instead eloping with her American boyfrirnd. Now chalk it up to a cultural misfit with our family and i won't match with Asians now, their conflict avoidant communication style feels like a string of white lies to me.
One of six rematches still haunts me. She interviewed perfect and turned out to be a chronic but very artful lyer who put my kids in danger many times (as i discovered after dhe was gone...). But that was years ago

Oh yeah and i want to add thay i have bern eiyh many agencies over yhe years and four rematches came fron one of them (interexchange or aupairusa). Two others were from CC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP raises good point. But can't really look at it that way. Many families leave the program have a couple unsuccessful attempts. The families with only 1 in 8 rematch stayed in program and clearly have great screening skills.

5 APs, no rematches here. Our LCC said in general it's the same families going into rematch multiple times. It's not her call, but she feels many of there habitual offenders (families ) should be asked to leave the program.