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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was wondering what's the most common reason from au pairs not being interested in interview. I get : I don't think we will be a good match reason but that doesn't say anything unless I ask why and then I can see they're lying.. Is it DC is not California thing? I'm tired of this.[/quote]

I rejected one family because they were... odd.
AP didn't live with them but in a different apartment in the same building. Their previous AP had run off (for an undisclosed reason) one Sunday afternoon, leaving them a note on the kitchen table. They had gone through four APs in two years. The schedule was erratic (there really was not, it was "you will be on call from x to y" with x to y being a lot more than 10 hrs). The questions they asked were more than strange. They didn't tell me a single thing about their family, all I knew was that they had two boys (2 and 4) who must have been disbehaving 24/7 because all questions they asked were about how I'd discipline their children (children I didn't know yet and thus had no idea how to handle best).
When they talked to my mother they asked her if I had plans to travel because the program was not for traveling and sight seeing but for work. After a five minute conversation with them my mom told me to run.

I rejected another family because they took their adopted toddler daughter to little miss pageants. AP was supposed to coach toddler daughter for said pageants and of course be there for support. Ever single weekend. 
One of the girls I met at orientation matched with them. She didn't last two months.

In the end I matched with a family with four children (1-13) in the Midwest, 45 hr work weeks. Best decision ever. Plenty of time for traveling and sight seeing. Still love them to bits. Would have loved to extend (wasn't possible back then) as my HM had another baby two weeks before the end of my year.

We get rejected because of living arrangements (AP has her own room but we share one bathroom as a family), disability (DH, not one of the kids, no impact on AP whatsoever), location, no car (not that it's needed - DH and I rarely use the car, we don't drive more than 3,000 miles a year) and I guess split schedule which runs late-ish (we used to schedule AP as an extra set of hand for dinner when the kids were little, working until 7/7.30 pm).[/quote]

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