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[quote=Anonymous]OP - I actually think it's fine to tell either during the interview if it comes up (when can you start/we need someone right away/etc.) or after the offer.  The only thing I would caution is that with any job, it is the employer's prerogative to say no. Given that you would likely have to decline a job that said no, I would tell before the family goes through the trouble and expense of calling your references and doing a background check.  You'll annoy both them and your references if they do all that only to have you present a condition that would effectively require them to rescind the offer.

I do think that nanny jobs are a little different in that if the family loves you and can make it work, it's not going to hurt your chances and if they love you but can't make it work, they are going to say no no matter when you tell them and you are going to have to decline the offer anyway.  We would have had to pass on a nanny with that stipulation no matter how much we liked her before or after the offer.  Our back up child care is 10 days of drop in day care through my job (enough to cover five vacation days of the nanny's choice plus three sick days and two extra emergency days but definitely not enough for two unpaid weeks plus that).  No way I would have used them up right away without knowing if the nanny was going to work out/take a ton of sick time/leave us after a month and require us to go through the nanny search again/etc.  The other difference is that nanny employers may still use you for babysitting or mention you to friends and neighbors who are looking for a nanny, but they are more likely to do so if they feel like you are upfront and honest (again, doesn't have to be before the offer, but I'd be annoyed if I paid for a background check and called references and then had a nanny decline an offer on a condition that would have deterred me from giving the offer in the first place).[/quote]

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