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[quote=Anonymous]We saw several great candidates from the NW current and the Gazette. We posted on-line and print. Its best to cast a wide net and invest a fair amount of time phone screening. Yes, there are tons of unqualified nannies out there but this doesn't mean that there are not tons of qualified nannies out there too. The problem is that when you first start screening and run into all the people who are not legal or have lost the jobs in retail and want to be a nanny because they have babysat once or twice in the past, you wonder where the good candidates are hiding. They aren't hiding, they just are overshadowed by everyone else because there is a low entry to be a nanny.

Many good nannies didn't really have written resumes. I started out assuming that I would only screen people who sent me resumes. The majority of people sending resumes were not nannies and didn't have nanny experience. I figured out that a resume just isn't as standard with nannies so lengthy phone screening was important. (You should feel free to politely cut the conversation off if the candidate you are phone screening has a deal breaker.) [/quote]

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