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[quote=Anonymous]Nanny here.

I use care (but find most families are looking for date nights or babysitters, not nannies), sittercity (same issue), gonannies (I search for live-in nanny positions only, and get a good national list), enannysource (search for live-in nanny positions, good national list) and nannies4hire (dashboard is set to US/Canada live-in positions, best option for finding diverse jobs).

From the feedback I've gotten from parents (and my own feedback):
Nannies4hire: allows a nanny to give access to all parents, no matter who purchased the background checks and driving record, which parents like!  The parents seem to like that it's up to them how much of the profile to fill in, and there's no word limit, so some have nothing filled in until later in the first week, and others post 1000+ words per section.  If you go into the contact tab of a profile, you can see all communication between a nanny and the family.  Nanny can give family access to list of references with one click, same with background check and driving record, and it's easy to go into the reference and background check pages to take a family off the allowed list.  Replies automatically copy the message into the bottom of the response.
Enannysoure: No feedback on background check/driving record.  Providing references is very cumbersome, most easily done through a message (I keep mine in a saved message).  Communication between nanny and family is NOT grouped together in any way, so unless you remember who you have contacted, it's very easy to apply for the same position multiple times.  Replies do NOT copy the original to the bottom of the response or put them in a thread.  Most cumbersome site that I use.
Gonannies: Nanny may purchase basic background check and provide access to families, but it's not worth it (only SSN trace and sex offender database check).  When a family purchases a background check, Nanny can't see the background check or give access to another family.  Only way to see all messages between nanny and family is to go into the profile, click the icons at the top for either sent or received, it will pull up both.  Allows nanny (not sure whether nanny can do same) to save numerous searches to run anytime with new results.  1000 character limit for all messages, but will allow as many extras as necessary to be sent.
Sittercity: No feedback on background check/driving record.  Replies to messages are kept in a thread together.  Search feature is annoying trying to narrow/widen, so I customized my search and bookmarked it. 2500 character limit, no contact with families until they reply to application.
Care: Replies to messages are kept in a thread.  Search is easy to narrow/widen.  Nanny may grant access to any family for all background checks/driving records on file.  There was a mistake in my background check; trying to get it fixed took 3 hours on the phone with the company who ran it, they can't update the check on the site and Care only lists one page (the highlights of my 10 page check).  With that said, the check is thorough, but families may not believe that due to the brevity of the information on the site, so now I'm offering a scanned copy of my corrected check at interview.

None of the sites charge nannies for the basic site services, but all try to get the nanny to purchase their own background checks.  All sites require the family to pay if they want to reply to nannies.[/quote]

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