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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agencies provide recommendation letters prior to interviews. Go that route. [/quote]
What if you don't even want the job after you meet them? Complete waste of time for your former employers if they're called.[/quote]

This is a big advantage to using an agency, though, for parents. When the nanny signs up with an agency, the agency verifies her references and usually solicits written references as well. So, parents who are interviewing the nanny know that someone from the agency has checked references, and the nanny knows that only one person (the agency) has bothered her references. Once you get to the hiring stage, the family may want to call those references, just like in any other position.

There's a woman on Care in the DC area that has been on there for years, telling the same story. Her profile looks great, so she gets interviews, but her references are clearly FAKE when you call them. I know at least two other people who have interviewed her. Presumably, an agency would save you that time.[/quote]

This just proves my point that everyone and anyone who has access to the Internet can post a free online profile and attach the term "Professional Nanny" to themselves and willing parents have no issue paying a fee to gain access to these people that they can just find for free on Craigslist.

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