Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Your Nanny's work agreement with your family

Nanny Contract - It is simply a list of terms to which both parties agreed. But written agreement provides to you and to your nanny a legal document stating the expectations of both parties and how the negative situations will be handled. Another fact is agreement are also legally enforceable in a court of law. Make sure your agreement out line every details regarding your nanny's job. Below I mention few important details you should enter to your agreement.

Your nanny's primary job would be caring your child. So include all the childcare duties your nanny would be doing. You may include things like taking your child to school, picking from after school activities, preparing meals for your child, dressing, brushing teeth, scheduled hours for any playing activities etc. The agreement may also include safety caring of your child, monitoring educational work etc. If you are willing to get help from your nanny to household work, include those household duties in the agreement as well. It can be regarding your child's work or over all household work. Clean up the kitchen, dining table and child's laundry, vacuuming, making meals would be few examples.

Something you do not want to forget is, mentioning the work schedule of your nanny in the work agreement. How many hours per day, per week, and what are the days to work - include those in the agreement. Also mention a leave plan,  how the leaves are allowed. Like any work agreement a well detailed paying method. How much do you expect to pay your nanny for a hour? How much for an extra hour? Will the payments are deducted by leaves? etc. Also clearly mention when the payment review will take place. In case, your nanny may need to her vehicle to transport your child, will you are willing to pay the fuel charge? Mention those as well.

The agreement should clearly outline what can lead to termination of your nanny's job. So I hope this will help you to make a good agreement with your nanny. Try to make it simple, but do not try to shortened it.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

How to Find the Best Nanny for Your Child?

For each and every parent their child is precious gift from goad and parent always wish to give the world's best care for their young kids. But due to different lifestyle to cover up economical, financial situations or due to passion towards career, usually both parents used to work either full time or part time. This is very true in a busy city, such as Melbourne. Because Melbourne is one of the well developed city with more population and with more demand for nannies Melbourne from working parents. Hiring a nanny may be a hardest thing in the view of parent, because they want to leave their ever loving kids on the arms of a stranger – The Nanny. Anyhow it is not hard as parents think. Find a nanny – the BEST nanny is not a difficult task if the parents know(understand) some basic things about nanny selection. In this article we will detail some tips and ideas to hire a nanny.

Identify type of nanny in need and responsibilities / duties of nanny

Before starting the search for nanny, you have to clear about they type of nanny that you  require; you may need a full time nanny – Works full-time (8-10 hours a day) regardless of day or night depends on your requirements, live-in nanny- the nanny lives with your family and take care of your kid. You may have to have accommodation arrangements on this case, Day-time nanny – Works only during day time, Part-time nanny – works few days or few hours of the week as per your requirements, On-call nanny – works only when she is needed or etc. You also have to think about tasks which nanny should do. Tasks may be housekeeping, cooking meals, take children to outdoor activities and/or pick up them from outdoor activities, help children on doing home work, teach children and etc.

Usually parents do not allow nanny to smoke or any guest to nanny during child care time. It is best practice on concern with child's safety. Parent can setup hidden video camera to monitor nanny, such nanny cameras are available at low cost in the market that you can get with single Google search.

There are more Asians parents in Melbourne, they prefer English speaking nannies to improve child's learning skills. Most of such foreign parents prefer nannies in their own community to develop religious activities in child's day to day life. You have to decide on it as what kid of nanny is needed for you.

You have to do small research using internet and find out ongoing hourly pay rate for nanny in Melbourne (or in the area where you are). That will help you to determine whether you are affordable to have a nanny or not. Anyhow, parents usually do not bother to pay for care their kids. But to make sure that you are not paying higher than on-going market price, the small research will help. Other than pay-rates (or in case if you are not affordable), you can think of some other motivates for nanny on top of pay; like household share, free holiday package with family and etc.

At this stage you may be able to list down, type of nanny that you are looking for, responsibilities of nanny that you require, dos and dont's of nanny, pay rates & other benefits, terms & conditions. Listing these will help you a  lot on finding the best nanny for your kid.

Where to find a nanny & What to ask from nanny at very initial stage?
You can find a nanny with help of nanny online directories that bring nannies & parents together (there you may find huge number of nannies in your area), nanny agencies, posting advertisement on newspaper (or magazine or etc). Once you locate a nanny, you should ask for references(may be nanny's previous clients), valid passport( or any identification card that is offered by government or driving license or etc), background check, police check report, certificate of completed child care courses, first aid course and etc, basic contact details. If you like you can check phone number re-verse look up as  background check, but as far as if you able to get the police check report, phone re-verse look-up may not be required.

Once you will get all required details from nanny applicants, you can filter and go for phone interview or face to face interview. You cannot and should not take decisions to hire a nanny only with phone interview.

If you are very busy person and have no time for all kind of checks and filtering nanny applicants, you can go for nanny agencies who can help you, because nanny agencies do thorough checks on each and every nanny who are registered with them But, you should not hire a nanny without interviewing her by yourself even she is recommended by nanny agency.

Usually nanny agencies do extensive analysis on every nanny that on their database; the analysis includes criminal checks with fingerprints, employment background checks, verified references, phone reverse lookup and etc. As a reuslt of such detail analysis, nanny agencies charge some high fees from parents. Anyhow you may not sure on kind of checks that the nanny agency does; if so, you can ask it to them as well as aks about their services from their previous clients (It is better to make and appointment with their previous client and ask questions about the agency). Also, by asking what number of years the nanny agency is in business and number of nannies it places every month, you can learn more about professionalism of the agency.

In summary, it is recommended to do all kind of checks for a nanny along with a face to face interview and that will result the best nanny for you.

Source : http://nanniesmelbourne.webs.com/

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Where to find a nanny in Sydney?

Sydney is one of the popular city in the world and it is one of the busiest city too. The demand for nanny Sydney is comparatively higher than other cities of Australia due to the city is with more working population. There are several ways to find a nanny in Sydney such as posting advertisement on newspaper (or magazines), references from friends, using bricks-and-mortar nanny agency, online nanny services (like nanny directories, online nanny agencies) and etc. These days, using internet to find a nanny makes the search processes quicker and easier and going online to hire a nanny has more benefits and reduces costs comparatively with other sources to get a nanny.

Online nanny directories may offer various number of options and may have huge amount of nanny candidates to serve you, where traditional nanny agencies may have list of nannies on particular area only. For an example, if you are looking for a live-in nanny to stay with you and serve you in Sydney, you may find a live-in nanny from Canberra who is willing to travel and live with you in Sydney. If it is local nanny agency, the nanny candidates are limited to the local location only.

Usually, local nanny agencies do extensive research on every nanny candidate who is registered with them. So, local nanny agencies may charge high amount of money to find the best nanny to suit your family needs. These charges are to cover their administration costs, costs on doing research on every candidate – like employment history check,  criminal checks, verifications and etc. Anyhow, it is not possible to make sure that all the nanny agencies that charge high, do all kind of checks and ready to locate you the best nanny. If you are going to use local nanny agency services, it is always better to do some learning about the particular nanny agency before get help from them (before get registered with them). As per some research, there are nanny agencies that may charge $3000-$4000 to find a nanny for you.

When it comes to online, you can use online advertising services like Craiglist, GumTree and etc to post an ad to get a nanny, but those sites are similar to local newspapers and may not have huge number of responses from qualified nannies. But, if you can use websites that are specialized in nanny services, that worth it and you can get lots of help from such websites on finding nannies. You can read more articles on tips & hints to know before hiring a nanny and etc. If you use online nanny services, the cost may be reduced a lot, and you have huge amount of nanny candidates who are ready to work with you and various options to filter and find the nanny who fits with your requirements. Other than that, you may need to do criminal checks, employment history checks, verifications and etc by your own. There are tools available online to do so, with some fee applied, you can use Google to find out such websites/online tools to do all kind of verifications and checks.

It is always better take some care of your security when you are posting ads online to hire a nanny. You have to make sure that your name, address or phone number are not publicly available as that may cause you prank calls, unexpected visits and more issues to you. You have to make sure you do NOT leave your address or phone number or last name on before hand. There are nanny services use instant messaging through their website itself, you can communicate via that with prospective nanny and once you finalize the things, you can exchange your details.

Hiring a nanny is a bit of time consuming but it is not difficult to do if you are using an online nanny agency.

Source : http://nannysydney.blogspot.com/

Saturday, April 20, 2013

How to Find a Nanny in City like Melbourne

Melbourne is one of the popular Australia city with massive number of working crowds. Mostly both parents of a child used to be working full-time, such people in Melbourne need another help hand for sure to look after their young children and/or babies. Such situation opens more market for nanny Melbourne and many parents are in need of finding the BEST nanny for their child and they struggle on finding their nanny as far as the nanny market is filled up with very few spammers/irresponsible people. If you are such a parent who is in need of a nanny in Melbourne, keep reading.

Usually, parents need nanny to look after their children during their absence at home. There may be exceptions, sometimes, parents may be working from home, but cannot spend time with child due to their job. There are lots of ways to find a nanny in city like Melbourne. Let's discuss.......

Word of mouth – That is one of the powerful tool on getting best nanny for your family. Tell your relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers and people with whom you talk to, that you are in need of a nanny for your child and spread the word. As a result, people may recommend nannies whom they worked with already or nannies to whom they know already in your area. Usually, most of parents do not do this, such parents do not aware the power of this method.

Visit to park – Specially in day time, nannies used to bring children to park and enjoy sometime on park with children and helped some outdoor activities for children. If you visit to park on that time, you may get chance to talk to nannies over there and ask them if they know anyone who are read to be your nanny. Usually, nannies used to have big friends networks and exchange jobs with other nannies when they are busy their other clients.

Nanny Wanted Notice – You can use your local library, community board and etc to post your nanny wanted notice. It is free. Other than that you can use your local newspapers to find a nanny in your area. This may cost you more.

Nanny Agency – Find a nanny agency in your high street and get registered with them, they may require some initial payment to register with. But in return, many nanny agencies have collection of nannies in that particular area, huge database of nannies. That may help you quickly to find one for you. Also, professional nanny agencies do all background checks and other verifications when a nanny is getting registered with them, so you may not need to worry about it when you are looking for a nanny through agency.

Online Nanny Directories – These can help you to find nannies in your area, specially near by your post code. Such directories gives you some trail period to post an ad and see the response to your ad. To read the messages/replies to your ad, you may need to upgrade your membership with them. Such directories link nannies with parents. Mostly they do act like nanny agencies, but these directories does not do background checks and etc.  To find such directories you can always use Google, for example, if you are in Melbourne, Google “Nanny Melbourne”- That may list you nannies around Melbourne or such nanny directories where you can locate/find nannies in Melbourne.

Gumtree.com & Craiglist.com – These are very popular ads posting sites where you can post your nanny wanted ads (Craiglist is free and you may need to pay few bucks for Gumtree). When it comes to responses, it may be comparatively lower than online nanny directories

Any of above mentioned methods can be used to find the BEST nanny for your family, good luck with your nanny finding processes.

Source : http://nanny-melbourne.webnode.com/

Thursday, April 18, 2013

How To Hire a Nanny

Hiring a nanny is not an easy task as many people think, it requires good research and some ideas on how to filter the nanny candidate. In English country like Australia, since old days (during our moms and dads period) people used child care centers for babysitting and child care. The government offers some rebates for using child care centers in Australia as well. Anyhow, using child care centers is not a choice for all the time, for an example, when child is sick or you (i.e parent) in need of help in cleaning, washing & etc. On the other hand, it is not always possible to get rebates from government easily. There are many ways you can welcome applications for a nanny to take care of your children from your home, such as publishing advertisements on your local newspapers, using brick-and-stone nanny agencies, online nanny agencies and etc. Let's check out these in detail.

You can find some nanny agencies on your high street, you can go directly to them and get register with them, they may help you to find a nanny near by your area. It is not free, you may require to pay up some amount for registration. Usually professional nanny agencies do have register themselves, do not hesitate to check out their registration certificate as nanny agency (You pay for them, so you have rights to ask about their registration and make sure that they are offering professional services).  They may give you some list of nannies who fit with your requirements, you may contact them and interview those applicants and go ahead further. It may require some long time to do all these process (in case if the nanny agency do everything manually rather than online) & that may lead some poor satisfaction from your end.

Anyhow, there are online nanny agencies which has lots and lots of nannies details to serve you (compare to your high street nanny agency). You can have all details of every single nanny that they have. Of course, you may required to pay small amount to get access, but there are few online nanny agencies that offer like 7 days trial period for FREE, you can post ads within 7 days time on their site and see responses, but to read the messages/responses, you may need to upgrade your membership with such nanny agency to paid membership. You can read testimonials from previous clients of such online agencies as well, apart from that make sure these online nanny agencies have registered themselves (You can check out their ACN number). Apart from these kind of nanny agencies, there are online nanny directories that connect nannies and parents, such directories too charge some kind of payments or give some trial period to post ads, and help you to find a nanny in your area.

Apart from these nanny agencies, or online nanny directories, you can post advertisement on your local newspapers which may cost you about AUD30. That may give you responses from nannies who are interested to offer their service to you. Let's look into some tips on filtering your applications and find the best.

Before selecting your nanny, you have to be very clear about your requirements, terms and conditions of work. You have to prepare a list before you start filter your nanny applicants and call/email them for more details. Here are some example situations that you may be in.

  • Where does nanny live? Is she around your area? - Nanny who is living around your area should be given first priority as she can be available quickly as possible in any urgent situation or it may be very easy for nanny.
  • You may need nanny for three days of a week, only for 6 hours of the day. Those three days may be fixed or any three days of the week. So, you should note this on a paper as when you need your nanny to work for you.
  • You may need your nanny to take or pick up your child from school, basketball practices or etc, in some cases, the nanny may need to drive. To do so, your nanny should have a valid driving license, preferably with vehicle & insurance, most importantly your nanny should be without any offenses or penalties given for driving.
  • You may have some special cases, like your aged grandma or grandpa is at home, will that be an issue for the nanny OR you may be a home-based working dad or mom and you will be staying at home, will that be an issue for your nanny?

Also, you should expect a nanny should give/show you below details:
  • Resume with recent photograph (may be with application you get this, with all contact details of nanny, qualifications, experiences as nanny in details)
  • Police clearance certificate
  • First aid certificate
  • References for background check

Other than listing down your requirements, you also have to list down the terms and conditions like how you expect the nanny to be, what does nanny should do, what should she should take care of? How she will teach discipline to child and etc. Listing down the requirements, terms and conditions are important to hire a nanny who is more suitable for your family. With your list, you can prioritize those and filter out the applications or may contact the applicants for more details (in case the details that you expecting is not presented with the applications).

Once your list is ready, you can filter the applicants and start with phone interview and then person-person interview to find the best nanny for you. Do not forget to find the best hourly pay for nanny in your local area, do small research on internet may help you on that.

Source : http://howtohireananny.weebly.com/

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Market Yourselves to Get Babysitting Jobs

Even though child care centers are there in Australia for several decades, these days babysitting jobs have more demand, due to increased number of working parents and more development in lifestyle. The pool of Babysitting jobs that is being used by unemployment people until they get a job, due to good earnings with this job. That creates lots of competition for full time babysitters. How a babysitter can face such high competition and get a babysitting job – Let's discuss the marketing plan for a babysitter.

Word-of-mouth is one of the traditional and stilling well-working method to get more   jobs for you. Tell your friends, relatives and neighbors that you are ready to babysit and ask them to recommend you for their friends, neighbors, relatives or co-workers. Always go comparatively lower price than child care centers, that will open more jobs for you. May be there are people who are not happy with their current sitter or may not afford big payouts for babysitting which child care centers demand, or may be there are people who do not happy with their current sitters performance (the way that he/she babysits with) or etc. In such cases, you have more room.

Printing visiting cards with your details and experiences too may work well. You can go for low cost budget to print these cards or may make your own using your PC or PC on your local area library (If you are familiar with some software like Microsoft Word or etc, otherwise, you can get help from your friends to do so), take print outs, cut & paste those in small card-boards and make them look like visiting cards. Distribute those visiting cards people around your area. To distribute you can place your visiting cards to all homes in your area (like postman places letters and other ad-words people place their details to home), or you can go to crowded areas like shopping mall, cinema theater & etc, and distribute your visiting cards to people who come over there, specially for the people with kids and babies. Another places to place your visiting cards are your local area community board, library, local area coffee-shops, gyms, swimming pool, church board or etc.

Do not forget your local area nanny agencies, you can register with them, make sure you give you all contact details, most recent photograph (nice smiling one), your qualifications, experiences and other details. There are some agencies that may charge  you are percentage of hourly payment once you will get a job via that agency. There are some community magazines, newspapers which may accept ads on low cost or free. You can try to place ads on them as well. Of course, if such ad gives you back at least one client, one day or one evening babysitting would compensate your ads cost. Search on internet and get registered with online nanny directories which help to link nannies/babysitters with parents. Make sure you fill up your profile in professional manner and you have your all details there along with references. Most of such directories are free of charge and do not charge you once you will get a job on their site. So, it would be absolute a FREE way to get babysitting job.

Now lets see the things you should take into account after accepting a babysitting job. These questions/things-to-note will help you to do your babysitting perfectly.
  • Employers Address
  • Is there parking facilities available to park your vehicle (in case if you have a vehicle to drive to work)
  • What is the nearest train/tube station Or Bus-station (in case you use public transport)
  • What are the landmarks to cross-over to reach the house?
  • What is the working time?
  • Is the employer fixed with time or flexible? (If the parent is coming directly from office to home – it may be a fixed time, but in case, if parent attend party and come, it may be delaying sometimes)
  • What about child's personalities?
  • Is there any special need required for any children?
  • Does the child has behavior issues?

Now you have some ideas on how to market yourselves to get a babysitting job as well as what should you know after accepting a job offer in order to give your best as a babysitter. Good luck.

Source : http://tipfstogetbabysittingjobs.webs.com/

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Why to go for nannies but not to day care centers in Melbourne

Increased number of busy parents in city like Melbourne widely opens door for Melbourne nannies, to take care of young kids and earn good income. Anyhow availability of day care centers in Melbourne reduce chances for nannies to earn more.  Day care centers explore more room for socialization, sharing and learning new vocabulary for children. However, there are disadvantages of using day care centers that creates comparatively less competition for nannies from day care centers. Some recent studies correlated increased behavior problems later in school and day center. In a day care center there are more than one kid taken care of, that may causes to get infection quickly from other kid. A nanny can give better personal attention to kid compare to day care. If parent is late kid can be shuffled to another caregiver and that may lead more issues for kid as he/she is under care of different caregivers. With nanny, this will not be an issue. A parent can find a nanny who accepts less pay than day care centers. Likewise there are many reasons to go for nanny over day care center.

Once parents decided to go for nanny, they have to understand on what are their needs, the duties that are expected to do by nanny, pay rate that can be affordable, extra benefits that can be given to nanny, terms & conditions of the job. Depending on the situation parents may be in need of a live-in nanny, full-time/part-time nanny,. Or etc. The expected duties may include prepare breakfast or help to prepare, dress up the child and take to school (by a vehicle or walk), take children back from school and help to have food, help child to do home work and do some learning activities (like football practice, swimming, library and etc) and etc. Parent can estimate current pay-rate by asking other parents in the area. As well as parent can consider extra benefits like offering home-made lunch or etc. Under terms and conditions, all should have to be detailed about the jobs, but not limited to dos and donts.

Due to development of technology many parents are happy to search for their nanny by online. There are various places parents can find their nanny online. The first most place they for is Google search engine and search like nanny Melbourne (if they are in Melbourne) and that results nannies in Melbourne. Other than that there are nanny directories available online that help to find a nanny near your postcode quickly with single click. Parents can post job on those directories and can expect more results/applicants as those directories used to have huge number of nannies. There are some such directories allow 7 days free trial and pay to communicate with nanny. By using those directories details like nanny's references, police check certificate, educational qualifications, experiences can be obtained. But parent may need to do all checks like job background check, verification check and etc. However there are directories that do all kind of checks like nanny agency.

Parent should go for face to face interview with prospective nannies and explore more in details about nanny and compare what nanny saying with already checked reports. It is advisable to have kid with parent to see how kid reacts to nanny and how nanny reacts to kid. Parent must question about nanny's previous working experiences, what she felt about her previous child care jobs, what was her worst experience in her career, how she can entertain kid, how she enjoys working with children and etc. If nanny's duties involve with taking child to basketball practice or swimming and if nanny has to drive there, parent should ask about her driving experiences as well (this should be verified and checked at initial stage)

Good luck with finding a nanny for your kid. I hope my writing might help you to find the best nanny for your family.

Source : http://melbournenannie.weebly.com/

Monday, April 15, 2013

How to find best nanny for your child?

For each and every parent their child is precious gift from goad and parent always wish to give the world's best care for their young kids. But due to different lifestyle to cover up economical, financial situations or due to passion towards career, usually both parents used to work either full time or part time. This is very true in a busy city, such as Melbourne. Because Melbourne is one of the well developed city with more population and with more demand for nannies Melbourne from working parents. Hiring a nanny may be a hardest thing in the view of parent, because they want to leave their ever loving kids on the arms of a stranger – The Nanny. Anyhow it is not hard as parents think. Find a nanny – the BEST nanny is not a difficult task if the parents know(understand) some basic things about nanny selection. In this article we will detail some tips and ideas to hire a nanny.

Identify type of nanny in need and responsibilities / duties of nanny

Before starting the search for nanny, you have to clear about they type of nanny that you  require; you may need a full time nanny – Works full-time (8-10 hours a day) regardless of day or night depends on your requirements, live-in nanny- the nanny lives with your family and take care of your kid. You may have to have accommodation arrangements on this case, Day-time nanny – Works only during day time, Part-time nanny – works few days or few hours of the week as per your requirements, On-call nanny – works only when she is needed or etc. You also have to think about tasks which nanny should do. Tasks may be housekeeping, cooking meals, take children to outdoor activities and/or pick up them from outdoor activities, help children on doing home work, teach children and etc.

Usually parents do not allow nanny to smoke or any guest to nanny during child care time. It is best practice on concern with child's safety. Parent can setup hidden video camera to monitor nanny, such nanny cameras are available at low cost in the market that you can get with single Google search.

There are more Asians parents in Melbourne, they prefer English speaking nannies to improve child's learning skills. Most of such foreign parents prefer nannies in their own community to develop religious activities in child's day to day life. You have to decide on it as what kid of nanny is needed for you.

You have to do small research using internet and find out ongoing hourly pay rate for nanny in Melbourne (or in the area where you are). That will help you to determine whether you are affordable to have a nanny or not. Anyhow, parents usually do not bother to pay for care their kids. But to make sure that you are not paying higher than on-going market price, the small research will help. Other than pay-rates (or in case if you are not affordable), you can think of some other motivates for nanny on top of pay; like household share, free holiday package with family and etc.

At this stage you may be able to list down, type of nanny that you are looking for, responsibilities of nanny that you require, dos and dont's of nanny, pay rates & other benefits, terms & conditions. Listing these will help you a  lot to find a nanny for your kid.

Where to find a nanny & What to ask from nanny at very initial stage?
You can find a nanny with help of nanny online directories that bring nannies & parents together (there you may find huge number of nannies in your area), nanny agencies, posting advertisement on newspaper (or magazine or etc). Once you locate a nanny, you should ask for references(may be nanny's previous clients), valid passport( or any identification card that is offered by government or driving license or etc), background check, police check report, certificate of completed child care courses, first aid course and etc, basic contact details. If you like you can check phone number re-verse look up as  background check, but as far as if you able to get the police check report, phone re-verse look-up may not be required.

Once you will get all required details from nanny applicants, you can filter and go for phone interview or face to face interview. You cannot and should not take decisions to hire a nanny only with phone interview.

If you are very busy person and have no time for all kind of checks and filtering nanny applicants, you can go for nanny agencies who can help you, because nanny agencies do thorough checks on each and every nanny who are registered with them But, you should not hire a nanny without interviewing her by yourself even she is recommended by nanny agency.

Usually nanny agencies do extensive analysis on every nanny that on their database; the analysis includes criminal checks with fingerprints, employment background checks, verified references, phone reverse lookup and etc. As a result of such detail analysis, nanny agencies charge some high fees from parents. Anyhow you may not sure on kind of checks that the nanny agency does; if so, you can ask it to them as well as ask about their services from their previous clients (It is better to make and appointment with their previous client and ask questions about the agency). Also, by asking what number of years the nanny agency is in business and number of nannies it places every month, you can learn more about professionalism of the agency.

In summary, it is recommended to do all kind of checks for a nanny along with a face to face interview and that will result the best nanny for you.

Source : http://nanniesmelbourne.webs.com/

Friday, April 12, 2013

Points to know about Perth nanny jobs

Source : http://perth-nanny-jobs.webnode.com/

Perth has more working parents compare to previous decades, that makes parents to struggle to take care of their children, and creates the need for nanny. When it comes to nanny jobs, there are various types of it, like full time nanny jobs, part time nanny jobs, babysitting jobs and etc as well as a nanny can find a nanny job that suits to her requirements as well. The competition for Perth nanny jobs is high due to, there are more nannies in Perth are ready to offer more customer satisfied services to parents. To win the competition and get the nanny job in Perth, a nanny should be well-talented, experienced with so pleasing & kind personality. We will discuss on what are the options available for a person who is looking forward to work as a nanny in a crowded city like Perth and how a nanny can beat the competition to get the job.

There are nanny jobs, summer nanny jobs, nanny jobs with housekeeping, babysitting jobs available in Perth. First of all you have to decide on what to choose on available options for you to deliver your nanny services. Also, you should not forget to find out your passion towards child care as well as your strengths and weakness related to the job that you seek for. It is better to keep all these initial things in your mind and develop your resume. Usually employers need to get details about your qualifications (in terms of child care, cookery, house keeping & etc,) your experiences and your qualities. Detailing all these three in your resume which your prospective employer expects, opens more room for you to get the job easily than your competitors.

To perform well and continue with job, one should enjoy the job what he/she does. Usually nanny jobs are not get bored, because most of us feel happy with presence of kids/children and enjoy those moments; specially little kids may give more fun and may not let you rest your legs as far as those little kids are normally very busy by themselves without thinking about others. These may create more pleasant and fun environment which may put you to stick with nanny jobs and develop your nanny career.

Experienced nannies get more priority than inexperienced ones, because parents always want the best nanny for their child, and parents always comfortable and feel trust with experienced nannies. Anyhow it does not mean that inexperienced nannies cannot get job, but those inexperienced may get more competition from experienced ones, and may need to add more qualities and qualifications to their resume to get the job.

Parents used to monitor comfort level of nanny with kid, like how nanny deals with kid, does the nanny a short tempered and etc. To do so, many parents are using (and emphasized to use) secret cameras to monitor nannies. However, if you are ready to give lots of kind, care along with patience you may not get into trouble which may lead more future jobs for you by reference of current employer.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Complete List Of Hints To Get Nanny Jobs Sydney

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Sydney, the capital of New South Wales state is one of the most popular city in the world with more population compare to other cities in Australia. Finding nanny jobs Sydney is not a very hard thing because of there is more demand for nannies as far as Sydney has many working parents (double income families) another reason that makes getting a nanny job quicker is, Sydney has about one fifth of total Australia population. Even though there are more demand for nannies in Sydney, if you are willing to get a nanny job there, you should be well organized and ready to beat your competition and get the job offer. In this article, let's discuss on how to do that?

Preparing your resume
As the very first step, you should prepare your resume in professional manner. In a professional resume, you have to include your most recent photograph (with a smile is better),  full name & contact details, educational qualifications (more in details about child care courses that you had completed or following, first aid courses, cookery courses, house keeping courses, child psychology  courses and etc), your working experience as a nanny (details of your previous work experience, if you look after your younger siblings, you may detail that as well), your passion towards child care, some comments on why do you choose to be a nanny & what motivates you of being a nanny, references from previous employers, references from reputed people from your local area and etc.

Where to find nanny jobs in Sydney
Once you are ready with your resume to apply for nanny job, the next question is, where to find the job? There are various methods to do so.

Word Of Mouth :
It is most powerful method to get a job, spread the word that you are looking for a nanny job, spread it among your friends, relatives and etc, you may use your social media accounts (like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and etc) to say so even. Your friends may refer you to their friends whom are in need of a nanny.

Registering with brick and stone nanny agencies :
You can find nanny agencies in high streets of Sydney or around your local area. You can get register with such an agency and they may help you to find your prospective employer. There are some agencies do it for free, on the other hand, some agencies may require some commissions from your pay (once you will get the job through them). Most of such agencies, usually do all kind of checks like verification checks, background checks and etc for their clients (i.e : your employer – parents).

Registering with online nanny agencies :
Due to development of technology you can find nanny agencies that operate online as well. Before register with such an agency, you have to look up for their physical address and make sure they are not fake and they are registered as nanny agency. These online nanny agencies too may follow up same procedures as 'brick and stone' agencies, but they may do it quickly due to the reason that they are operating online and everything can be organized quickly and easily. They may have instant messaging services which you can communicate with your prospective employers.

Online nanny directories :
There are various online nanny directories that has huge number of nanny job offers and list of nannies. You can find such one nanny directories in Sydney by searching on Google. Such directories just connect nannies with parents, they usually do not do all kind of verification checks, background checks for their clients. But parents may do very often. Usually, such directories are free to register with and even they do not charge commissions from your pay as well. You may simply find nanny directories in  Sydney by searching “nanny jobs Sydney” on Google or other related terms.

Local community boards, forums and other local areas :
You can post a note about your nanny service on your local community board, forums or local library. Other than these, you can leave your note on supermarkets (usually there are supermarkets place ads on 'room for rent' and etc, so they may not hesitate to help you as well), local private gym, park notice board and etc.

Invest few bucks for your marketing :
You can give advertisements on your local area magazines, newspapers, community magazines and etc. You may create a small visiting card and distribute it to your local area members with kids (it may take more effort, but conversion rates may be higher).

How to approach your prospective employer and how to face interviews :
If you are called for an interview in person or over email or telephone, you should  always ready to talk in pleasant and professional manner. You may learn such interview manners by reading articles online (use Google to find such articles). Specifically for nanny interview, do not forget to discuss the time that you are required to work, what you should do (duties), what you should not do, what are terms and conditions and etc. Do not forget, child care requires giving lots of kind, love, dedication, patience and commitments compare to other jobs & as a nanny, you will be a part of the child's growth in terms of behavior as well which totally determines the child's future.

Good luck to get the best nanny jobs.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Hints to get good nanny jobs Brisbane

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Brisbane is the capital of Queensland, Australia with 2.15 million population. It is most populated city in Queensland and third most populated city in Australia. As a result, the city has more working moms and dads who are in need of helping hand on taking care of their young kids. This creates demand for nanny jobs Brisbane. Due to rapid development of technology, it is easy to find nanny jobs in Brisbane by online. Let's look into some tips for online nanny jobs seekers.

You can find huge number of websites that help you to find a nanny job specifically in your local city like Brisbane. Most of those sites do not require a fee or commission  on pay and those offer complete FREE services for nanny job seekers. What a nanny has to do is, create an account with them, set up/fill details, upload resume, photograph and etc. Many professional nanny websites that link nanny and parent do not show up/share contact details (like telephone number, addresses, email and etc) and/or other private details (like references details) on public. Such websites require to login and require the person to be registered as parent (these websites charge good amount of money from parents to get a nanny for them) to see details of nanny.

On the other hand, there are websites that places all contact details (specially telephone number, email) on public. So, anyone can see your details. That put risks for you, anyone can get your telephone number and do reverse look-up and find your current address, previous address, relative details, associate details and etc. That may lead to prank calls, unnecessary letters, strange visits and etc. But the chances are very less due to the reason that many reverse look up services require pay. Anyhow, you have to understand the risk of showing up your contact detail on public other than to your prospective client.

By now you understand that your potential employers can learn more about you by doing reverse look-up of your phone number and get to know details of you. At the same time if there is any phone number from your employer, you can do a reverse look-up and know more about your prospective employer that may help you on the job.

If you are called for a face-to-face interview, it is always better to take your friend or relative with you and it is important to inform presence of your friend to your interviewer. Your friend may wait on car or any coffee-bar on the near area. As well as give the address, phone number of home that you are going for interview, exact time of interview to someone in your family or any of your friends for safety.

Also keep a note on how the employer communicate with you, what they answered and not answered. If it is email, take printout at home and keep it in your home, if it is  call, do not forget to record the number from which you get the call.

Before accepting do not forget to have some chat with their former babysitter or nanny. That vies you more comfort level to work with. During the interview you may ask those to your interviewer. If there is no troubles interviewer always ready to give such details.

Hope all these hints are helpful for your nanny job hunt and get the best nanny jobs for your comfort. Best of luck with your career in child care.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Steps to follow to get nanny jobs in Melbourne

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Number of double income couples with kids in Melbourne, that is number of working parents, is increased day by day in Melbourne. It creates lack of time for parents to take care of child, guide the child in discipline, teach kids in doing school works and etc. That opens up (in other words “increase”) the demand for nanny jobs Melbourne. Even though Australia is one the English speaking country, these days cities like Melbourne are more populated with Asians who wants to improve their kids' English. This kind of situation creates more demand for English nannies in Melbourne. Let's focus on some tips to follow to get nanny jobs in city like Melbourne and earn good pay.

If you are looking for nanny job or babysitting job, the very initial step you should be following is, preparing your resume in professional manner. The best nanny resume may include the followings :
  • Name and contact details of nanny
  • Objectives
  • Family background
  • Educational qualifications (Demonstrate in depth about child care courses, first-aid courses, cookery courses and other related courses that you had successfully completed or following at the moment)
  • Experience as a nanny or as a babysitter (If you are the eldest in your family and if you took care of your younger siblings – do not forget to say about it as well)
  • Why do you like to work with children?
  • References (Contact numbers, Email addresses, Physical addresses of your previous employers or some well reputed people in the society who know you very well)
  • Availability of police check document
  • Availability of driving license & Availability of vehicles
  • Are you registered with local child care center or any other child care related organizations, as a child care professional?

The next step on finding nanny jobs, is identifying on where to look for nanny jobs. There are lots of Melbourne nanny agencies available online. You can find them using a single Google search. Specially, if you want to find nanny jobs in Melbourne, enter ' Nanny Jobs Melbourne ' would give you some list of nanny agencies or nanny job offers in Melbourne. Once you find them, you have to register with them to apply for nanny jobs available on their website. Please remember that you may not need to pay to get registered with the nanny agency's website that links nannies with parents. Usually the employer (parents) used to pay some amount to get registered with. In case, if there are no established or reputed nanny agency can be found online, you may go for your local high streets and register with traditional nanny agencies. Otherwise, you may look for nanny jobs in your local news papers, magazines or say Melbourne Craiglist or other classified ad posting websites for nanny vacancies. The other best way is, spread by word of mouth, tell all the people that you are looking for a nanny job in the particular area. If you are more interested to become a nanny and if you have some funds with you to invest on getting a nanny job, you may have printed cards with your experiences as a nanny along with contact details and distribute to your friends, relatives, neighbors and etc, as well as you can give a short advertisement saying that you are looking for a nanny job (do not forget to advertise your experiences and qualifications) on local newspapers or magazines. By doing any of the above mentioned ways, you will be able to locate on where to find your prospective employer.

Once you find the place to apply for nanny jobs, and if you apply for nanny jobs, you may be called up for an interview, usually initial interviews are conducted via telephone or e-mail or using any other instant messengers (example : Skype video calls). If you give good impression to your prospective employer at initial interview, you may be invited for a face to face interview with the parents (employer).

For the interview, it is must that you impress your employer with the professional and fresh look. You should dress up neatly, make sure you do not show up any tattoos or body art to the interviewer. Remember, the parent requires you to teach some discipline to the children, so of course, you should have it yourself before you will have to teach it.  Follow up other interview procedures like, make sure you turn off your mobile phone, there is no bad smell from you (neither of your body or mouth), your teeth is cleaned well, polish your shoes, less (or no) jewelry,  soft voice, polite, curtsey in answers and etc. Once the interview is over, do not forget to say “thank you” and once you will reach home, do not forget to send a thank you note via email. That will create a better positive image about you in employer's mind.

Also, remember, you may or may not be offered with the job. If you may not be selected, do not reduce your motivation to search for another. If you feel, if there are any mistakes, do not forget to correct as well and keep in mind that attending interviews too are some kind of experiences as that gives you better picture of current job market.

Monday, March 18, 2013

How does a nanny agency can help to find nanny or nanny jobs in Perth

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The capital city of Australian state Western Australia, Perth is one of the busiest city these days due to good development in the city and there are more working parents with very busy schedule in Perth who have comparatively less time to take care of their kids and help their kids on day to day work, doing school home works, spending some times with kids outdoor,  teaching kids for sometime and help them to learn new things and etc. It creates good demand for Perth nanny jobs specially from those working parents. These days with the help of modern and well improved technology, it is not hard to find a nanny in Perth with all verifications and checks. Of course there are online nanny agencies Perth who help to find the best nanny to work with.

During old days (before the internet and more technology come into action), nanny jobs can be found by word of mouth or small newspaper advertisements or 'brick and mortar' agencies in Perth. But these days the power of internet and other related things make it easier to find nanny jobs or to find a nanny in city like Perth. With the help of nanny agencies, you can apply for nanny jobs for free (sometimes, some agencies charge very small amount for application process, but most of them are free). Once you applied for nanny jobs using a nanny agency website, you may be contacted by the employer (who had posted the advertisement on the website) and may be asked to have an interview via email messages or instant messages; there are more nanny agency websites offer instant messaging services or you may be asked to contact via other instant messengers like Skype, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Google Talk or etc. On the other hand, you may be asked to attend a telephone interview or video camera interview using Skype or other messengers. At the same time, your background verifications too can be done via online, usually when you are registering with a nanny agency website, they used to verify you and check your background and other details, if not, your prospective employer will check it. If the interviews will have gone successfully and if the employer is ready to offer the job, in most cases, employers may wish to have a face to face interview with you to discuss the job requirements in more details, terms and conditions & etc. If everything is agreed by both parties, you may be emailed with a contract to be signed or you can get it in person at your employer's place.

To do all these kind of things and connect nannies and parents, nanny agencies do not have to have a particular physical place (i.e Office setup). They may work from their own home and connect nannies with parents in Perth or any other cities of the world with the help of internet and modern technology. Anyhow, these nanny agencies should be registered with local councils or government and should have details of nannies and nanny jobs to help both parties (parents to get nanny & nannies to get nanny job). Nanny agency should clearly display their address, the owner details, legally registered certificate and other contact details. It is always better to do some research on nanny agencies to find the best nanny agency that does not spam or phis nannies or parents. It is better to send at least one email or direct-mail to the agency with some questions and check back their reply for it. Their reply may indicate how do they serious about helping either to a nanny to get a job or to a parent to hire a nanny. Also, use internet, specially search engines to find out about their reputation.

Well established and reputable nanny agencies, usually do all kind of verification checks for nannies as well as do some credit checks for their clients (i.e Parents), and usually have some algorithms to match nannies with parents. Based on the requirements of parents, nanny agency can give a list of suitable nannies who fit with the requirements. As well as, nanny agencies usually (specially on websites) have rating system based on qualifications & experiences of nannies and reviews for nannies who had already worked with their clients. That helps to select the best nanny who fit with the specific requirements. Nanny agencies usually have to have lots of clients as well as lots of nannies, so it is easy to get nanny jobs with help of nanny agency.

If you are looking for nanny jobs, and going to register with nanny agency, the first thing you have to do is, setting up your resume in professional manner with all your qualifications and experiences related to nanny jobs or babysitting jobs.  A good nanny resume may include, all the courses that you had completed (or following now)  related to child care, cookery, house keeping, first-aid and etc along with your contact details, experiences (starting from most recent job) and references to check about you or your nanny services.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

How to get nanny jobs Brisbane without experiences but with qualifications

Brisbane becomes a busy city day by day with very busy working parents who are looking for help from nannies or babysitters to look after their babies or children and take care of many aspects of the babies or children like helping children to get ready to school, having breakfast, go to school on time, teaching children & helping on doing school home works, preparing dinner, house keeping and etc. Brisbane has more Asian population who are very keen on education of their children, specially English education, that leads more demand for good English speaking nannies or babysitters in Brisbane and opens more vacancies for nanny jobs or babysitting jobs Brisbane for qualified and experienced nannies. In this article, let us look into how to get nanny jobs in Brisbane without much difficulties and how to improve career as a nanny and get well paid.

To get babysitting jobs or nanny jobs in Brisbane, you have to have three important things, such as good qualifications,  experience, and excellent marketing strategy. All these three will help you to demand more pay and get jobs quickly than others. To get qualifications you can follow some courses related to babysitting and child care on recreational centers in Brisbane, to market yourself, i.e to get jobs, you can register with websites that offer nanny vacancies, that is getting registered with nanny agencies websites. If you are fresher without any experiences reading books or magazines on child care too will help you to gain more knowledge on how to handle babies or children of different age groups. If you have both two and have good pleasant and more kind towards kids and love working with kids, of course, you may get hired even if you are a fresher. Then, you can gain more experiences and go ahead from there.

If you can deliver good services to a family and your services can be spread out via word of mouth to others in the area and that leads more demand for you. So, do not forget that giving................. read more...

Monday, March 11, 2013

What to Know on Finding Nanny Jobs Sydney

Sydney is one of the world's popular city with good demand for nannies and babysitters. That leads for more classifieds for nanny jobs Sydney. Usually a babysitter or nanny in Sydney earns about 18-25 dollars per hour. It is a really good pay and it attracts more people towards babysitting jobs to earn good money on part-time. Anyhow, nanny jobs are not suitable for everyone due to the reason that nanny should be more caring, more loving with child and should have lots of emotional responsibilities with the child and family. Even though there is good demand for babysitters in Sydney, it is hard to locate on where to find babysitting jobs Sydney. There are various ways to do search for the nanny jobs, that includes searching on websites, using search engines to find websites, browsing business directories, browsing nanny directories in Sydney, checking out forums, reading news paper magazines advertisements and etc. There are websites allowing you to post nanny jobs advertisements for free. Well, let's see what do you need to consider to become a successful babysitter.

If you can obtain a babysitting certification in your area, that will be a definite plus for your job search as a babysitter or nanny. If you do not have such a certificate, you can attend babysitting courses in institutions in your area, make sure the course offers you more in depth knowledge about babysitting, about first aid, handling dangerous situations (example : fire), how to handle different ages children, how to handle baby allergic, what are allergic things for babies & children, and etc. Getting certification in first-aid too will be another plus point for you. You can take these short classes and certification courses on babysitting as well as on first-aid on recreation centers around Sydney, if you want to find such centers, search on Google or Bing; you can easily find one. Attending CPR courses in red cross centers in Sydney too may help you as such courses teach you about first aid and basic child care. Please remember that, these certifications will ensure babysitting jobs for you in near future. You have to make sure that you are not smoking and you have police clearance as well. These are very strict requirements for almost every nanny job postings. If you can have driving license that may be plus too. That may help you to take the child to hospital if child got some injuries or sick or etc.

To get babysitting jobs Sydney constantly, you may register with employment agencies in Sydney. Of course, you may need to pay some commissions to them from your earnings. Anyhow, if you are earning continuously with their help, it will not be a big deal. Other that, there are websites that do allow you to apply for babysitting jobs for free through their websites and let you earn. You can create a network with other babysitters or nannies or home-stay moms, that will allow you to get good tips and ideas to improve your career as a babysitter, not only that, if other babysitters or nannies are too busy, they may need your help on babysitting for their clients; that makes you earn more. Also, do not forget reading books and magazines on child care (may be online or offline) helps you to improve your child care knowledge and helps you to be super best babysitter in Sydney.

If you want to be a successful babysitter, you have to know, I would say, you should be knowledgeable in child psychology. At least, you have to have some basic ideas on it. A babysitter can be required to help child in doing home works, on preparing breakfast for child, helping child to learn new things, break up fights among siblings and etc. To do so, you have to understand about their psychology and know the ways to motivates them and guide them in better way, you should take more responsibilities on these cases. On the other hand, as a babysitter you may need to take care of babies as well; it needs more understanding and knowledge on how to handle the baby, of course, it needs some background of baby care. Keep in mind that caring baby and caring young children are not same, baby care is required lots of attention. If you do not have such background, reading books on babysitting or ......... read source article

Friday, February 22, 2013

How to be a successful Nanny in Melbourne?

Melbourne is the capital of Australian state Victoria, the second most popular city in the country. It is often called as “Garden city” and it has population around 4.1 million (as per 2011 reports). It is one of the wealthiest city in the world. More crowd of the city is working people, in most cases both parents usually go to work. That puts the demand for Melbourne nannies to comparatively higher level. At the same time, supply of nanny jobs too seems to be higher. So, the demand and supply sides look like balanced. Anyhow, it is not easy to find a comfortable family to work as a nanny. Apart from that, being nanny is not an easy thing, it requires more skills and responsibilities. If you are looking for nanny jobs Melbourne, keep reading to know what to consider to become a successful nanny.

If you love to care children and love being with them, of course you are suitable person to be a nanny. If you are a college student or just looking for some other jobs but still you want to have some income, nanny jobs is better for you. Apart from source of income, you can be in touch with more families and young children that will give a positive impact on your among people in your area.

Being a babysitter is different than being a nanny. As a nanny you have more responsibilities than a babysitter. Taking responsibility is a key factor of developing your career as a nanny. You have been chosen to work as nanny to take care of the child's safety, welfare and etc, it requires more commitment to the job. You are going to be with the child for long time and the child's actions may reflect you as it get used with you, so you may have to be a role model for the child as well in every small things. For an example, wash hands before having your meals. Usually children follow up what others who often with them does. So, you should not forget that your attitude and behavior determines a child's future and you have to be ready to take the full responsibility.

Usually, parents prefer to hire someone who has experiences as nanny, or someone with childcare background and degree, specially early stage child care or someone with childcare training. Apart from these, parents will look for your ability to take care of their child in a good way and they may look for someone who can be trusted and be with them for long term period.

Other than educational qualifications to become a nanny, you have to be mature enough to take decisions, that is taking responsibilities. It is really important, so you should be very clear on what to do when some unexpected things happen. Usually, if the nanny too a parent for his/her own child, so parents may be more comfortable and they may not worry too much as far as you cared your own child and you have the experiences on child care. Anyhow, if you are not a real parent, you may have to ask question yourself, “what I will do it this child is my own child” and act accordingly, in other words, you give unconditional love to that child when unexpected things happen, and save the child. You may get clear ideas on these as you get more experiences as a nanny.

During nanny interviews you have to ask questions and get clear answers about the parents' exceptions and requirements. That helps you to understand the family and take decisions whether that family is comfortable to work with or not. Usually people go for nanny contract where the terms and conditions which both parties agree are clearly set out.

Even though almost all possible things are discussed during interviews and set out in the nanny contract, there may be new issues pop up as you work along. In such situations proper and clear communications with parents is one of the best method to get rid of issues. To avoid such issues, you may have a meeting with parents for once a week or once a month and communicate with them or you may ask support from other nannies or nanny support clubs around your area.

This article might help you on how to be a successful nanny. If you are looking for Melbourne babysitting services, visit WeNeedANanny.com.au for details and get hire or get hired.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Steps in getting Nanny Jobs in Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of Australian state Queensland and it is third most popular city in Australia. As it has decent amount of population babysitting jobs Brisbane is too have good demand as well as there are good amount of people who are willing to serve as a nanny or babysitter in Brisbane. In this article, lets discuss on what to be considered to become a successful Brisbane babysitter or nanny.

When searching a nanny jobs, the important thing to be considered at first point is, compatibility between family and nanny. These can be well discussed and addressed during nanny interviews. There are some steps that a nanny has to go through to get hired. On each step a nanny can learn more better about the job market and the expectations of families in his/her area, say Brisbane.

As first step a nanny Brisbane may look into online listings of jobs, there are various sources online, if you want to find listing, better to do Google to find. By looking at a listing of nanny jobs, a nanny can read about the job requirements of the parents, what are the “must do” or “should do” in the job listings and etc. This will give some ideas about the family and will help on take decision whether to go ahead with that listing or not. By reading the lists, nanny can find out number of children to be taken care of, number of required working hours, other terms and etc. Overall, by looking a listing, nanny can understand about the family whether they are easy-going or difficult to handle.

If the job listing is impressive or if the requirements are okay to deal with, as next step  nanny can contact the parents (who placed the ads) over the website and clarify his/her questions about the job and requirements via website's instant message or e-mail. You may ask about the ages of children, number of children and special needs of children and more other details about children at this position. (In case if all those details are not clearly stated in the advertisement for to hire a nanny.) During getting reply for the emails or instant messages, a nanny can easily understand about the family on how the answers are being replied, is there any forceful words used? Are the answers are in polite manner? Are the answers are rude? - these helps to determine whether to continue further with that Brisbane nanny jobs advertisement or not.

In case the email process go well, next step will be phone interview. At this point a nanny may want to know more details, like hours required to do the job, is there any specific hours in a day, duties to be completed (like cooking for children and or family,   cleaning up house, driving children to school or etc), more information about children and their current behaviors and personalities, discipline in children to be take care (or will the family look into this) and etc. By talking over phone, you can get more detailed information about the nanny job. If a nanny is ready to work for that family after the phone interview, the next phase is in-person interview.

Nanny can ask for appointment and attend an interview face to face with family and children whom the nanny is going to be taken care of. At this point nanny can observe about the family, how the parent treat nanny, how children behave in front of parents, and how children behave in front of nanny, how parents treat their children and etc. At this stage salary details, other terms and conditions too may be discussed, as well as a nanny may be asked for references to check with. If the things are still smooth a nanny may be hired for the family.

But some cases, there may not mutual agreement set for some terms and conditions, on such situations family may look for next candidate. Anyhow, attending interview will be a good for a nanny as she can learn a lot by so.

The Need of Backup Babysitters in Melbourne

Melbourne is one of the world's busiest city to be with better market for babysitters to find jobs there as far as most of the parents used to be working to cover up their living cost in Melbourne. As a result the demand for Melbourne babysitting services is comparatively higher. In this article, we will discuss of having a backup babysitting services in a busy city like Melbourne.

There are possibilities for unexpected things to happen in every person's live. It is applicable for babysitters as well. There may be some urgent or personal situations where babysitters may not offer child care services. Such position may put the parents in difficult position until they find another babysitter. As it the case, it is better if you can know someone earlier who is offering child care services, that would be easy when your babysitter is in a position of leaving his/her child care services for you. During initial stage of selecting babysitter, you could have applications from various other candidates other than your current babysitter. It is better to know about other candidates service details and contact details as well, that may help for your backup need.

Anyhow, all of your candidates might be looking for full-time babysitting job, rather than part-time one. If that is the case, you may ask your friends or neighbors to recommend a part-time babysitter for you. In most cases, it works as you may already know about the babysitter's family or friends and you have some ideas on how that babysitter will treat your child. By references you can hire the babysitter for part-time until your regular sitter is back.

Even if you are going around with references, some cases, you may not sure how the babysitter will treat the children and how the child may react to the sitter. In this case, you may need to be with the babysitter for sometime until the child get used to, that helps you to monitor the babysitter as well. You may setup some video camera at home to monitor the babysitter when you are away. Also, do not forget the determine the hours to work and when to work, say for example, Saturday 12.00 p.m – 4.00 p.m and make decisions about hourly charge as well.

We always cannot guarantee that our family, friends or neighbors may know or refer some babysitters, as far as they never worked with such services or the people whom your friends used are not offering such sitting services anymore or etc. In this case, next option may be finding someone around Melbourne who is looking for part-time babysitting jobs Melbourne, they may be college students on their late teen. You can find them via websites or local newspaper ads. Usually, late teen or college students do part-time babysitting as they need some extra money and they usually go college. Also, usually kids are happy to see younger babysitters than older ones. These young babysitters are age enough to look after a kid, you do not have to worry about them. Anyhow, if you are getting someone from newspapers or websites, make sure you do all usual checks like family background check, references check, police clearances check and interviews. Those will make you comfortable with your sitter.

When you are finding a part-time/backup babysitters, it is better to have at least three to four sitters in contact and you may use them for your future need.

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Some Ideas on Finding Better Canberra Nanny Jobs

Canberra is the capital of Australia is one of the crowded city with busy people around. Most of the people, young parents are mostly working and are in need of someone to look after their babies or children. That raises the demand of nannies in Canberra, as a result the demand for Canberra nanny jobs increases. Lets discuss on how to find the best family to work with as a nanny.

Finding the family which is compatible to work with determines the success of nanny jobs. Some basic compatible issues should have to be addressed during interview phase of nanny selection. On long run, as good relationship between nanny and the family develops, the compatibility issues may be disappeared. By facing interviews and checking out the job requirements online or offline, nanny is learning more and more in depth about the nanny jobs.

Listings of nanny jobs in Canberra can be found by browsing online nanny job directories or offline news paper or magazine advertisements in Canberra. With the listings, requirements of the nanny job, post code of the house to work and contact details of advertiser can be found. By reading requirements, the expectations of family can be outlined. There may be 'must do', 'should do' items as well as 'having these are plus' items on nanny advertisement. As a nanny, you have to search for more information on the advertisement like the size of the family, number of children to be taken care of, other duties to be completed like housekeeping, traveling with family on vacations and etc. By checking out the family's detailed information on offline listing or online listing, nanny have to take careful decision whether to go ahead with that family or not.

If you are happy with the listed nanny jobs and would like to continue further with that family, you can contact them via email, or online messaging services which are provided by some websites or via phone call. By contacting the family, you can get more details about the job as well as the family which is in question. You can get details of children, their ages, special needs and etc. It is better to avoid asking about salary at this stage.  During conversion with the family, nanny can understand on how they talk, are they forcing or easy-going and etc.

If everything seems to be okay, you can ask them for interview or to meet in person and can discuss more things in person along with salary and other benefits and requirements. If the family is ready to hire you, ask them to go for a nanny contract and put everything in the document that both parties agrees and signed up. That will help you to understand each other and have more compatibility.

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Things to consider to Start Brisbane Babysitting Business

Brisbane is capital of Queensland the state of Australia and it is one of the popular city in the country. Same as other popular cities in the world, living cost in Brisbane too may be comparatively above the average. If you are a college student or if you are a mom on late thirties or forties and if you are in need of some extra money and if you are a good care giver – become a babysitter is better choice for you. Before start doing child-care you have to understand few things and make sure you are completely fit to offer Brisbane babysitting services.

You have to have control of your daily work schedule and your availability hours for babysitting alongside you should be mature in thinking, take correct decisions and responsible. Also keep in mind that your professional babysitting business may really gives better impression about you to your future employers. Being dedicated and trustworthy and giving better love and care to children may lead you to become a successful business person in near future.

Let's get into details about things to consider to become a successful babysitter in Brisbane.

Knowledge on how to do babysitting is very important. If you are new to this, there are lots of online courses available for babysitters to follow up and those courses may teach you in detail about giving proper care to babies and what to do on emergency situations like household accidents, injuries, sickness and etc. Apart from that you can get clear ideas on how to treat and care children with different ages. As far as the age changes the care you should give too be differentiated comparatively. If you have some experience or some experiences by helping other babysitters – That would be a definite plus for your new babysitting business.

Keep contact details. Prepare a book to keep all contact numbers, addresses, alternate contact numbers (if they are not available on given phone number) and email address of parents of kids whom you are giving babysitting services. Also, have name of child, child's date of birth, age and etc as well. That will be easy for you to communicate with child's parent quickly and easily. Keep the things well organized and easy to refer quickly as possible when there is an emergency situation. Apart from  these details, you have phone numbers of police in your area, emergency police number, fire service number, ambulance service number and etc as well.

Decide what age group to babysit. Sometimes you may not comfortable to babysit with babies, on the other hand, you may all right to take care of children aged 7-11 or etc. Think about your ability and decide on it. Anyhow, once you get experience on babysitting, day by day, on later stage of your business, you may start to babysit for all age groups. But it may take time, it all depends on your effort towards your babysitting business.

Use references for more business. Get references from people to whom who had given babysitting services previously. Ask them to give you reference in form of letter or any feedback form. Otherwise, you can get their phone number and get their permission to give that phone number as reference.

If you want to get more business, look for online for parents who are looking for babysitters. Search on online babysitting directories like WeNeedANanny.com.au which is one of the BEST nanny and babysitting directory in Australia. That directory covers all over Australia, but not only Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Brisbane.

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Hire Melbourne Nanny and go for Nanny contract

Melbourne is capital of Victoria state, Australia and it is the second most popular city along with 4.1 million (as per 2011 reports) population. As it is one of the famous city in Australia, the working crowd seems to be higher compare to other cities. That opens up vacancy for nanny in Melbourne where both parents are working. It results to searching of Melbourne nanny to look after and care give babies and young children. During busy schedule with work, it may be hard to allocate time together with children and take care them. This of course requires nanny for you.

Finding nanny in city like Melbourne is not hard as far as most of the people are advanced with technology and make ease the nanny search process using online nanny directories or newspaper ads or magazine ads or etc. Anyhow, there are people who feel difficulties or hard time on selecting the perfect nanny who adjusts herself with the kids and the family. Let's discuss some useful tips to be noted to make your selection process easier at the same time to find out the BEST nanny in Melbourne.

Before hiring or offering the job to nanny, be very clear about you requirements – It is better to take some time and list out it on a piece of paper. Explain your requirements, needs and wants to nanny very clearly to avoid vague and to make clear understanding about the job. Put all of your requirements in contract (Nanny Contract) – all terms and conditions in detail and get signed on the job offer. This kind of nanny contracts help a lot to clearly understand about the responsibilities of the nanny whom you are going to hire. Apart from that, these contracts ensure that there is no unpleasant situations between both parties as far as everything is very clear in the document.

To make a successful nanny-parent relationship, communication is very important. Other than having good communication, praising nannies and their children also strengthen the relationship among nanny, children and parents. Usually nannies work odd hours and they have to be very clear about the expectations and boundaries of their job and both parties should be comfortable with these. These things should be very clearly communicated in the nanny contract.  Usually unusual tasks to nannies or  the tasks which nanny does not agree during agreement on nanny contract may lead unhappy nanny and leads quick turnover. On the other hand, parents may be unhappy as there are  nannies who use parents' vehicle for nanny's personal things or go out without any permissions from parent or do unapproved purchases or invite nanny's guests to home and let them stay night or etc. These kind of actions of a nanny may clearly show that the nannies are out of contract terms and conditions. Usually nannies do not happy to discuss with their uncomfortable as they want to work still. But that may lead too poor nanny services. So, to avoid all these misunderstandings and conflicts in actions – Nanny contracts should be clearly explained and both parties should remember important bullet points of the agreement. That may lead to a pleasant environment for children.

Better nanny contract may contain below details :
  • Responsibilities of nanny
  • Expected disciplines from nannies
  • Working hours (Work schedule)
  • Salary details & Pay dates & Over time payments details
  • Benefits
  • Deductions (possible taxes, insurances and etc)
  • Your state's regulations on hiring nanny
  • Children indoor and outdoor activities
  • Overnight care expectations

There are lot more to cover up in detail. Always make sure that both parties are happy about the contract and agree with the contract terms and conditions and will follow it up to have a pleasant environment for kids, parents and nanny.

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

How to Find a Babysitter in Perth?

Perth is capital of the Australian state Western Australia. It is one of the largest city and fourth most famous city in Australia with population around 1.83 million. As it is, the need of babysitting services in Perth too have good demand. Anyhow, there are people who may have no ideas on what to look or consider when choosing a babysitter for their child in Perth. In this article, we will discuss what to be taken into account to find Perth babysitting services.

When you are looking for a babysitter, the first choice may be someone who knows you very well like your relative or friends to take care of your child. Other options may be your neighbors who offers child care services, your co-workers children (teen/adult), your friends of your children, recommendations from your relative, friends, co-workers or neighbors. Anyhow, everyone is busy these days as everyone is running behind the clock and living on the fastest world; so, your relatives, friends or co-workers may not have any ideas on where to find a babysitter in Perth. Your next option may be looking for a babysitting agency or you can go online and search for babysitters in Perth and find babysitting services near your post-code. There are websites that offer such searching facilities to find a babysitter near your area. Of course, you can use search engines like Google, Yahoo to find websites that offer babysitting services around your area, say Perth. On this way you will be able to locate and find a better person to take care of your child when you are away from your child for work or for some other reasons.

Once you locate the babysitter, it is better to interview and ask references (get the phone numbers).  By getting name and phone number of people whom had got the babysitting services from the particular babysitter, you can call them ask about the babysitter and the services, what they like about the babysitter as well as how the child was treated by the babysitter. Many people will help you by answering. You can check out the references letters from previous clients of the babysitter and confirm with his/her previous clients as well.

When you are ready to select the particular babysitter, ask him/her to do some shift watching. Schedule some time with the babysitter and ask him/her to visit your home and look after the baby while you are doing some other work at home, you may be doing something on your garden or may be busy with cooking or may be working on some other things at home. By do so, you can see how the babysitter look after your child and you can make sure the baby is get used to with babysitter in that way when you left your baby with the selected babysitter. This may be perfect one, however, there are few babysitters may hesitate to do so or may charge little above the average for visiting your home. But it is worth.

If you are not happy about the babysitter and had some negative feeling, or if your baby is getting upset when he/she sees the sitter, it is always to go another. To check your babysitter, you can call when you are out or give some unexpected visit – by that way you can check your babysitter or you can have cam setup to monitor the babysitting services while you are away (this is possible, if you hire a babysitter to babysit on your home, if you are using babysitter's place, this facility may not be offered)

Last but not least, the things that you should consider when hiring a babysitter :
1.Does he/she live around Perth, specially around your area? (Assumed that you are in Perth)
2.Did he/she offer good services in past? (Check with previous people who babysat with him/her)
3.Do an interview and ask questions – Keep your child with you during interview and see how the child reacts and how the sitter reacts towards child
4.Ask for police check, first aid certification

Good luck with finding a babysitter in Perth. There are lots of people doing babysitting around Perth, you can check out by visiting nanny directories in Perth online.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Finding the best Babysitters in the City of Sydney

Finding babysitters in Sydney which is one of the busiest cities in Australia is not a hard issue. If you tackle the problem correctly, you will be able to find what you are looking for. Working parents with children always face a problem when they both have to stay late at work. This problem is babysitting. They would want someone to take care of their children while they are not at home. They would want someone who is responsible and knows how to be a caregiver to their children as they would not want to leave their children in the custody of reckless teenagers who cannot even take care of themselves. This is why the process of choosing a babysitter has to be done very carefully and slowly without any rushing.

The first thing you should do is ask family members and close friends if they have any recommended babysitters. There is a great chance that your friends needed to hire a babysitter once before for the same reasons. Another way is searching online for babysitting agencies. There are numerous agencies in Sydney who will provide you with top-notch babysitting services for a suitable price. All what you have to do is use the correct keyword and always try to incorporate the name of the city, in this case Sydney, in the search. This would allow you to find agencies that offer their services in the city you live in. You should then start comparing between the different agencies in terms of price, service and quality so you can get the best service for the best possible price.

After you hire the babysitter that will take care of your children while you are away, no matter how good she looks, you would want to monitor her performance on the first day. The only way to do this without the knowledge of the babysitter is to use a nanny cam. A Nanny cam is a very small camera that can be placed hidden in any place in the house and it cannot be spotted. This cam would record everything that the babysitter will do while you are away so you can view it when you come back. This would allow you to see how the babysitter interacts with the children and how does she satisfy their needs while she is alone with them. This cam can be bought online or at any computer shop.