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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is your education and continued learning??
Are you keeping up with all the current recommendations and changes to raising children? Do you attend your local conferences like iNNTD? NNPD? Or annual conferences like INA, nannypalooza, or maybe DEMA just to name a few. Are you part of any associations like INA, NDWA, NAYCE etc???

What was required or recommend 5 yrs ago isn’t what is now. Keeping up with different parenting styles, education and laws (local and all over).

Is your resume changing with the newer looks that are coming out (not just the same 1 pg black and white paper. FYI nanny resumes don’t need to be 1 pg).

Also depending on the area, if your resume don’t stand out it may just get passed up. Agencies are looking for that over all nanny with skills, education and more. Parents the same.

Stand out and shine bright. Own the age, prove that age is just a number  
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Please. You do not need to attend a nanny conference and let me tell you, from someone who has worked in childcare for a long time and has went to school etc., a degree does NOT teach you common sense- something you need when taking care of young children. I’ve learned more about ‘how’ to care for children under age 5 from childcare courses from the state or MD and in person training, than when going to school for ECE to be honest.

Parents definitely discriminate and it’s not just based on age but color too. I’m in a new area now and I know my credentials (a long list too) are valid and up to date, yet the jobs I’m applying to (a specific race) looks at my message and keeps going. And while I think care.com is going down the drain, I have both a background check and drivers record displayed on my page. [/quote]

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