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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have hired two nannies before and don't remember it being this hard.  I am not in DC and my prior nanny I found on DCUM.  [b]In my new area I am using care.com and a nanny agency.[/b]  The agency has yielded nothing and care has been incredibly frustrating.  Candidates do not show up to scheduled phone interviews, and most people applying for the job do not meet the requirements stated.  I have probably corresponded with 40-50 people and yet most cancel on me, or cancel an in person meeting.  I have gone after people as well as taken a look at those who have applied to my job.   I am paying a competitive rate and nothing in the job is unreasonable though I am not willing to pay under the table.  I have tried the local facebook page and list serves.  I am at a loss.  I know the market moves quickly and I am ready to make a decision.

What am I doing wrong?  I am in a suburb of Boston.

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There is also sittercity.  Sittercity is like care.com, but smaller.

I am a nanny.  I found the two families I work for on sittercity.  I have been with these two families for close to two years now and all three parties are happy with each other.  But every now and then, just for fun, I log onto sittercity just to see what is going on in my area.  When I log on, it says there are like 350 people available as nannies in my small town in Florida.  However, when i narrow the search down to within 10 miles of me, and show only those who have logged on within the last two months, then there are less than 40 people available.

I know care dot com is more widely known because they have commercials on TV, but I like sittercity better.

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