Reply to Long-Term Nanny- How Long?

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "Long-Term Nanny- How Long?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny here. Kind of surprised at the answers. I always tell families I am looking for a long term position of at least 1 year. In the nanny world I feel like 1-2 years is long term. I do have a lot of 1 year or less jobs on my resume but that is because the youngest child started school. I hope potential employers don't see that as a negative.[/quote]

No, not a negative with that explanation.  When we were hiring a nanny for DS, he was a baby and one of the things we looked for were those who stayed with a family for at least 2 years.  Since we anticipated needing/wanting a nanny for at least 3 years, we wanted to make sure we hired one who had a history of staying.  Ours ended up staying for 4 wonderful years.

I think it is only a negative when you appear to bounce from job to job. In the same sense, as a nanny, I'm sure you'd want a family that has steady nanny employment and not 3 nannies a year.  But with the explanation that your charges went off to school, it is certifiably understandable. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics