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.
Source : http://nannyblog.jimdo.com/2013/02/07/some-ideas-on-finding-better-canberra-nanny-jobs/