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[quote=Anonymous]I email first and check that our arrival date works for them.  Our agency occassionally has gotten au pairs who say on the application that they want to come in May, but when you contact them all of a sudden they can't come until July.  So I screen for that immediately.  I keep it short though - I say I live outside DC and have two kids ages X and X+3.  I also mention that we have a current au pair and have had a good experience but she is leaving and so we need to find someone else.  Then if they email back, ok the arrival time and presumably say our application looks nice or our kids are cute or something, then me or me and DH together usually have a phone call.  If that goes well, I have them connect with our current au pair, who checks them out over skype and also on Facebook.  If all goes well, we may call again.  Finally DH and I will skype with them, and sually the kids are around for this.  We usually only skype with the kids when are fairly certain that we are planning on picking this au pair though.  I find that I get more from a call and reviewing the application than from a skype session where they are nervous and I'm trying to promt the kids to say something nice to them.  [/quote]

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