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[quote=nannydebsays]Longevity is a very small factor in a successful nanny/family relationship. Why? Because not every family wants a nanny who will stay for years on end, and not every nanny wants a job that lasts for years either.

Perhaps a better measure of an agency is how well they listen to you when you are interviewing them (and this goes for nannies and families), and how well they translate what you tell them you are seeking into potential candidates or potential positions.

An agency could boast of it's 97% match success rate, but if they don't do a decent job of matching families to nannies and vice versa, that statistic means nothing other than that they are able to convince clients and nannies to "stick it out" for a full year.

OTOH, if parents have a specific (and reasonable) list of things they visualize in their perfect nanny, and the agency manages to meet most of their requirements with the candidates they send the family, why make the time the nanny stays with the family the only success statistic?

As a nanny, I'll use an agency if they listen to me and present opportunities to me that match my wants and needs. The fact that I like to (and always plan to) stay with a family for many years is kind of irrelevant - if a family is an awesome match in every way except timeline, I am still open to meeting them.

And agencies that insist on my filling out a 16 page application (that they apparently then use to train their new puppy), and who interview me without listening then often call me with LI jobs when I only LO, or PT jobs when I only want FT, or jobs with teens when I prefer to start with infants? I generally tell them to stop bothering me, even if they have a "nearly perfect" success rate. [/quote]

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