Home work to do when hiring a Nanny

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When you are choosing a nanny, it is about what is the best for you and for your family. Hiring a nanny is a good option to take care of your child when you are not at home as your child can have one-to-one attention and care. To maintain peace and harmony in your family and in your living environment, it is vital to hire the right nanny for your family. So doing your homework before you hire your nanny can certainly help you to make this task much easier.

Before you post an advertisement to hire a nanny, figure out what exactly you want from your nanny. Make a timetable for your nanny which includes the time she should attend to work, what is the time she is allowed to go, days and times your nanny should pick your child from school/after school activities, specific time to drive your child to somewhere like park, music class, etc. Also you should make well detailed job description for nanny. Job description can include, whether you need your nanny to do household work also or not, leaves procedure, nanny pay, overtime pay etc. Signing a nanny agreement with your nanny is very important. Therefore making your nanny agreement before you rush into the nanny hiring/interviewing process is recommended. This is your bond with your nanny according to the law, so be careful when you are making it. You can ask for help from someone who has experience on making a nanny agreement.

As you may already know, arranging an interview with your nanny is equally important. You should be prepared to the interview as well as nannies. Preparing a list questions to ask from candidates at the interview is important. Few questions you can ask from each nannies would be “Why you become a nanny?, Where have you worked before?, Why did you quit from there? What is your salary expectations? Do you have any qualifications on childcare?, Do you have the knowledge on first Aid/CPR? (very important) and so forth.” You can give opportunity to candidates to ask any questions at the end of interview as well.