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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I completely agree that a nanny should be paid for a trial day. However, many, many different jobs and careers require extended, multiple interviews that are not paid.

I think you need to move away from the idea that you are being paid for your time. If the parents want to sit and chat for four hours to get to know you, I'd say they were nuts, but not that they should pay you. A nanny should get paid for a trial because she is presumably offering some value to the parents. She is essentially doing her actual job, just with no promise yet that there will be an ongoing relationship.[/quote]

I think you need to move away from comparing my career as a nanny to other jobs and careers.  Like I have said before, in my 8 years of working in the early childhood field Ive never done trial days and certainly won't for free.  As a nanny YOU are the service provided.  Trial days are NOT interviews.  You are with the kids and working and unless the 2 year old puts on their reading glasses then whips out an iPad with questions for me, Im working.  They have already interviewed me more than once.  Trial day is a work day without the contract being signed to cement the deal.  Stop looking at trial day WORK as an interview.  It is the step AFTER the interviews.  If you must compare, compare it to orientation and probationary periods on other jobs which are also paid.[/quote]

You realize the PP is saying the exact same thing as you?[/quote]

Let me clarify. I keep seeing people say they should be paid for a trial day because it takes so much time. That leads right to the response that many jobs have prolonged interview periods. That's exactly how this thread, as well as 100 others on this topic, have started. Yes, you should get paid. But, because you are doing the job. I don't pay people because their time is valuable. I pay when their time is providing value to me![/quote]

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