Monday, April 15, 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.

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Thursday, March 21, 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.

Wednesday, March 20, 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 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 Melbourne 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.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

What to know on finding nanny jobs Sydney

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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 reading magazines may help you a lot, other than that, you may get help from your mom and dad as well as they know well about it (As they might have babysat with you). If you are doing babysitting first time, always keep your mom & dad phone number in hand, to contact them if any problem arises.

You have to be well organized and good time keeper. You have to talk with the parents and be clear on time which you have to do babysit. If you are a college student, you have to make sure that you are not running later than 9.00 P.M nights as that may makes you uncomfortable on next day at college. You should have contact number of parents of baby or children to contact them during emergency situations as well as list of doctors contact details, other emergency phone numbers as well – That will help you to take actions quickly if there is any problem for the baby. Always make sure you have all emergency contact detail with you (You may stick on your wall or hang out in kitchen or whatever.)

There are lots of licensed babysitting agencies can be found in Sydney to find babysitting jobs or to post babysitting ads on it. Most of those my require some payments but it worth it as they usually have lots of job openings on babysitting. Licensed babysitting agencies usually check all background and other details of babysitters who are registered with them, so, it makes easier for parents to select the babysitter for them without fearing about security. If you are looking for a babysitter or babysitting jobs, it is recommended to join with a licensed babysitting agency that will help both sitter and parents to be safe.

Wednesday, February 27, 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.

Tuesday, February 26, 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.

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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