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[quote=Anonymous]I'm looking to hire a part-time (25 hours/week) nanny to watch my 3 year old just for the summer.  Since it's a summer job, it tends to attract students and recent grads with limited to no nannying experience and I am fine with all of this as it is just for the summer.  The candidate in question is a mid-20s graduate student with occasional sitting experience.  She is American, but as she has been living abroad until about a year ago, I cannot verify her most important references, namely, the bulk of her caregiving experience and her two-year full-time office job.  Her only American references are her weekend job as a waitress and occasional babysitting for a friend's nephew and niece.

The reason I am considering hiring her is because of her linguistic skills; she is fully bilingual in the language she spoke abroad and that I speak to DD.  Looking for a bilingual caregiver inherently restricts the candidate pool and I know that by hiring one, I am not getting the "best" person, but I still want someone "great."  The fact that I cannot verify this candidate's references really bothers me.  She seems very nice and good with DD, but who knows what she will be like when I am not there.  I do have a back-up candidate who is qualified (preschool teacher) with references, but not as strong with the second language.

I'm not sure how to deal with the lack of references of the first candidate.  Ideas?[/quote]

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