Would you be interviewed by the current nanny?

[Anonymous]

I applied for a position via care.com last night. I got a follow-up response from the current nanny. She said age will be handling the interviews instead of the employers. It seems like a nice temp job ( 4 months) but I hate that I can't meet my future employers until I start. Would you interview anyway?

[Anonymous]

Did you post this last month? I think I've seen this before - or maybe, it's just a common enough situation.

Sounds like the current nanny is going on maternity leave and the family is leaving it up to her to find her own replacement. I'd go for the interview and ask to meet the family if invited to a second round.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you post this last month? I think I've seen this before - or maybe, it's just a common enough situation.

Sounds like the current nanny is going on maternity leave and the family is leaving it up to her to find her own replacement. I'd go for the interview and ask to meet the family if invited to a second round.

No I haven't. This is the first time I've encountered this situation. The current nanny is leaving or a different profession. They need a temp nanny trough the year and then they will be utilizing daycare services.

[Anonymous]

Agree you should go to the intèrview and make sure you meet the family before you decide on the job. It's probably easiest for her to schedule interviews and weed down to a couple of candidates for the parents to meet.

[Anonymous]

Hell no. Mb and db sound lazy.

[Anonymous]

I think a nanny that is on such good terms w/ her employer that she is doing initial screening says a lot about everyone involved. You would learn a great deal from meeting her.

I would never take a job until I'd met the parents of course, but I think this is a pretty neat opportunity.

[Anonymous]

OP here. The nanny said she will be the one to do interview and hire. I will not meet the parents prior to starting the job.

[Anonymous]

Well then the advice here is not to take it. Of course you'd have to meet them before you start, not meeting the person who'll be managing you is an unreasonable expectation for those employers to have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hell no. Mb and db sound lazy.

No, they sound busy.

[Anonymous]

I only would if I truly NEEDED the money. Otherwise it just sounds too weird to me.

[Anonymous]

I've been interviewed and hired by an employee (house manager once, nanny who was leaving another time). In both cases, it worked well, and I hardly interacted with the parents anyway.

[Anonymous]

Go to the interview and then decided from there

[Anonymous]

I'm a former nanny for a family and interview any nanny they have had after me. I only do the initial screening and offer my opinion to my old bosses. They do any follow up of they desire, otherwise I handle letting the people I have interviewed that we are no longer interested. I realize it may seem wierd but this is becoming the norm now. I would never advise anyone to accept a position without talking to the parents first.