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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think her age is probably a major factor. People worry about the stamina, health, and "fun factor" of an older nanny. For better or worse, people also have a hard time hiring someone older than themselves that they will have to manage as an employee, or might have to let go at some point.
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There is also the fact that you seem to be acting as a go-between for her, which suggests either that her language skills aren't great, or she's not able to use technology well.[/b]

How has she found jobs in the past?[/quote]

MB here and I agree with this, especially the bolded section.

We hired an older nanny for our babies, and she was terrific.  But her language skills were a bigger barrier as the kids got older.  So in subsequent hires we were much less flexible on requiring true fluency in English - both written and verbal.  At $18/hr parents will be interviewing a pretty wide range of people so they may be tipped easily in a different direction by fluency, more recent employment, perceptions of age/stamina/energy level, etc...

See what you can do in terms of local listservs, parenting groups, etc... - my best leads have always come from other parents (rather than DCUM or care.com or those kinds of places.)  So maybe you can get some traction if you get people to put a note up on neighborhood listservs, or your mom can offer to be a vacation nanny or something like that until she finds full-time employment.

I just hired a new nanny last month and it's pretty competitive out there at the $18/hr level.  There are lots of people looking for work, so your mom is experiencing the hard side of that.[/quote]

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