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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For us personally, I am looking for someone who could be with us for at least 5 years.  It's something I bring up on the phone because I don't want to waste someone's time with an in person interview if they know they want to go back to school in a year and are only looking for a short term job.[/quote]

Can you really plan for a 5 year commitment? That seems like something that just happens, to bring up a possible 5 year commitment in an interview (phone or in person imo) is like saying I love you on the first date. You need to wait and see how things work out so there's really no point in asking that at this point. [/quote]

Well, here's what I told the last candidate: "Obviously no one knows with certainty what the future holds and we can't know for sure how this will work out but [i]if[/i] we are all a good fit, ideally we would really like to have someone long term who would want to stay with us for at least 5 years."  Her response was "Well, then I don't think I would be a good fit because I do plan to go back to school in about a year." We ended the call on good terms, she appreciated that I didn't waste her time and I appreciated that she didn't waste mine. We both wished each other luck.  We have since hired someone who was with her last family for 10 years.  She is a career nanny and is looking for something similar to her last position where she can be for a long time.  She of course also has all the other qualities we were looking for as well.  Obviously we can't say for sure this will work out but what is the point of hiring someone who already knows they won't stay more than a year at most?  Some nannies (I'm probably some parents as well) on DCUM like to talk about the revolving door of nannies and how that is detrimental to children.  I'm not sure I actually agree it causes any long term problems but certainly it is more difficult for children in the short term to keep changing nannies.  If I KNOW that someone is definitely not going to stay for the next several years why would I hire them when I had tons of candidates who wanted something long term.  I completely understand if you DON'T want to stay that long and there are certainly any number of short term jobs too, you would just not be a good candidate for me.  Also, I'm not actually asking for a 5 year commitment.  I can't expect anyone to agree to that but I'd like to know it's a possibility as opposed to hiring someone I know will only stay for a year.[/quote]

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