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Hints to get a 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.

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How To Hire a Nanny

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Hire 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.

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

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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.

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