Care.com question....

[Anonymous]

This is only for people who are going to answer my question. I know a lot of you hate care.com, but it is the best option I have in the area where I am located and I have found many wonderful families to work for through the site. I just noticed that I can only apply to a certain job I was looking at if I have the premium membership, is this something new? I thought the only thing the premium membership did was put you higher in family's search results. Without the premium membership can I not view all the job postings?

[Anonymous]

I've run into this as well. I'm not sure what's going on, and the only thing I can assume is that the family thinks they'll get less applications from unqualified people (people who can't/won't pay for premium).

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure how it works on the nanny side, but I just put a job posting up on the employer side today and there was no mention of Premium vs non-Premium nannies. I can see whether a nanny is Premium when I do a search, but plenty of the candidates who responded to my job posting are non-Premium.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure how it works on the nanny side, but I just put a job posting up on the employer side today and there was no mention of Premium vs non-Premium nannies. I can see whether a nanny is Premium when I do a search, but plenty of the candidates who responded to my job posting are non-Premium.

12.02 here. I've run into three positions in the last two weeks which required the nanny to have a premium membership, and all three required the nanny's profile to fit certain criteria before an application could be submitted. It seems to me that the parents are paying more, and possibly having care post the profile.

[Anonymous]

Wow.

Looks like big changes have emerged as of late.

I would still hire a nanny who didn't carry the prestigious bells and whistles.

Maybe she is a superb nanny, just not able to afford a premium membership since she is unemployed.

Makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow.

Looks like big changes have emerged as of late.

I would still hire a nanny who didn't carry the prestigious bells and whistles.

Maybe she is a superb nanny, just not able to afford a premium membership since she is unemployed.

Makes sense.

A superb nanny would have money sense and self control and have been saving up and not living paycheck to paycheck. Just a thought.

[Anonymous]

Op here, thank you for the comments. I did end up getting the premium membership, I guess they are probably trying to find ways to get more nannies to pay. If it means there will be less applicants for some of the jobs then I suppose that's a good thing for me.

[Anonymous]

So now care.com is trying to make money on both ends of the deal? They really need some damn competition.

[Anonymous]

Interesting. I use an agency but used to use care for tutoring and babysitting. I never noticed this but will log on to my account later to see if it does that to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So now care.com is trying to make money on both ends of the deal? They really need some damn competition.

They have plenty of competition. They're just testing the waters for increased revenue. Don't bite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now care.com is trying to make money on both ends of the deal? They really need some damn competition.

They have plenty of competition. They're just testing the waters for increased revenue. Don't bite.

Not really. There's sittercity but they aren't nearly as popular. Care has pretty much cornered the low-mid range nanny industry for people who don't want or can't afford to work with an agency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now care.com is trying to make money on both ends of the deal? They really need some damn competition.

They have plenty of competition. They're just testing the waters for increased revenue. Don't bite.

Not really. There's sittercity but they aren't nearly as popular. Care has pretty much cornered the low-mid range nanny industry for people who don't want or can't afford to work with an agency.

Care, craigslist and sittercity all list the same types of positions, sometimes identical postings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now care.com is trying to make money on both ends of the deal? They really need some damn competition.

They have plenty of competition. They're just testing the waters for increased revenue. Don't bite.

Not really. There's sittercity but they aren't nearly as popular. Care has pretty much cornered the low-mid range nanny industry for people who don't want or can't afford to work with an agency.

Care, craigslist and sittercity all list the same types of positions, sometimes identical postings.

Lowest of the low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow.

Looks like big changes have emerged as of late.

I would still hire a nanny who didn't carry the prestigious bells and whistles.

Maybe she is a superb nanny, just not able to afford a premium membership since she is unemployed.

Makes sense.

A superb nanny would have money sense and self control and have been saving up and not living paycheck to paycheck. Just a thought.

I am doing just fine financially, but I would never pay for a premium membership because care is just one of the many sources are used to search for jobs. If care.com continues to put up the barriers to nannies using their website, they will drive even more of the decent nannies away. For nannies like myself, care is not competing for my attention with craigslist, but with agencies and word-of-mouth. I will often post on care.com, but because I have so many other avenues to finding a job I am not going to invest a huge amount of time or money in them. I think most other nannies who have The ability to work with an agency instead feel the same way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow.

Looks like big changes have emerged as of late.

I would still hire a nanny who didn't carry the prestigious bells and whistles.

Maybe she is a superb nanny, just not able to afford a premium membership since she is unemployed.

Makes sense.

A superb nanny would have money sense and self control and have been saving up and not living paycheck to paycheck. Just a thought.

I list on five sites as well as scanning through indeed, monster and craigslist. Some of the premium memberships are pricey. So, which sites, in your opinion, are more worth it? I'm certainly not going to shell out for a premium membership on each site when added up, it's over a week's wages. There's not enough benefit to outweigh the cost.