Nannies do you give out references?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agencies provide recommendation letters prior to interviews. Go that route.

What if you don't even want the job after you meet them? Complete waste of time for your former employers if they're called.

This is a sale point from agencies that they check all references and background check before they send nannies out. Agencies will do this for regular employer clients but not for new clients, it would be a waste of time and money for an agency to go through all that work to then the client decides not to use the agency. Most agencies don't even have that pool of nannies like they say they do, if they tell you otherwise ask them to see the candidates they have on board before doing business with them though they will give you every reason not to do this.

What most agencies do is call the references and do background check after a client decides to hire that nanny and the really bad agencies will try to get a fee from you first, then if the person does not check out they will tell you they will give you the free replacement which the most likely do not have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agencies provide recommendation letters prior to interviews. Go that route.

What if you don't even want the job after you meet them? Complete waste of time for your former employers if they're called.

This is a sale point from agencies that they check all references and background check before they send nannies out. Agencies will do this for regular employer clients but not for new clients, it would be a waste of time and money for an agency to go through all that work to then the client decides not to use the agency. Most agencies don't even have that pool of nannies like they say they do, if they tell you otherwise ask them to see the candidates they have on board before doing business with them though they will give you every reason not to do this.

What most agencies do is call the references and do background check after a client decides to hire that nanny and the really bad agencies will try to get a fee from you first, then if the person does not check out they will tell you they will give you the free replacement which the most likely do not have.

Most agencies do have a non-refundable up front fee to cover some of these costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agencies provide recommendation letters prior to interviews. Go that route.

What if you don't even want the job after you meet them? Complete waste of time for your former employers if they're called.

This is a sale point from agencies that they check all references and background check before they send nannies out. Agencies will do this for regular employer clients but not for new clients, it would be a waste of time and money for an agency to go through all that work to then the client decides not to use the agency. Most agencies don't even have that pool of nannies like they say they do, if they tell you otherwise ask them to see the candidates they have on board before doing business with them though they will give you every reason not to do this.

What most agencies do is call the references and do background check after a client decides to hire that nanny and the really bad agencies will try to get a fee from you first, then if the person does not check out they will tell you they will give you the free replacement which the most likely do not have.

Most agencies do have a non-refundable up front fee to cover some of these costs.

And that is what the agencies want you to believe, but in reality they do not spend the time and money checking out a nanny unless they have a sale, business first then people