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[quote=Anonymous]This will happen to some extent regardless of your position. My guess is that there's a combination of 1) nanny job searches can go pretty quickly, so people may have received another offer and just not bothered to tell everyone else they've been communicating with, 2) especially for summer nannies you may be dealing with a lot of students, so the level of professionalism in communications is not going to be what you'd be used to with seasoned corporate workers, 3) a lot of nannies seem to dislike confrontation so they may say yes to moving forward on the phone even if they decided during the conversation they aren't interested. Frankly it happens the other way as well, where parents often ignore messages they're not interested in because they get flooded with respondents who are clearly mass applying and not even reading the postings. So communication in general is just not going to be quite at the level that you'd expect in say, applications for residency or interview processes for corporate jobs, unless you're going through a nanny agency.

Nothing in your posting jumps out as a red flag. With a FT job, variations in schedule are not as major an issue as it might be in a PT job, as long as you can give nanny advance notice. It's quite common to have to go through 20+ phone interviews during the process to get one nanny, so if it's only 2 people who have "ghosted" you thus far, I would say just keep trying for now.[/quote]

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