Friday, July 27, 2012

Hire a Sydney nanny

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Sydney nanny is the person who is going to be with you and your loving children in Sydney most of the time. Finding a nanny is not easy task, it requires lots of time and careful analysis and selection. The person whom will be selected should be reliable, trustworthy and more caring. Because your nanny is going to be in your home almost ever with your children. You have to understand that nanny plays a vital role in your and your children life personally and sensitively. Because your Sydney nanny is going to stay with your child for long time of a day and taking more care of child. When a child is growing up affection and care-giving are very important as it determines child's future. Selecting a nanny candidate who is very hardworking, put extra care on child and expert in care-giving offers easy life for your child and you. So, let's see how to find a better nanny. If you are looking to hire a nanny in Sydney, you have to prepare a checklist, you can find some informative points to be included in your checklist by reading this article.

Process of finding a Sydney nanny begins with posting advertisements online, print media and word of mouth. With technology growth, posting online advertisements or seeking help of online nanny agencies in Sydney become more cost effective compare to other advertising media. Even, to contact people who are searching job as nanny in Sydney, you can use Google to find them or you can post job on popular online job boards or ad posting sites or even ask your Face-book friends or twitter followers to suggest/recommend some nannies for you in Sydney.

Print media is one of the traditional method to post your nanny vacancy like newspapers, magazines, job boards and etc. In Australia, there are many national and local area newspapers. If you are looking for Sydney nanny, you can use the newspapers which are being read mostly by people in Sydney. Even if this kind of advertisement cost you, the benefit is that your advertisement reaches more people than internet users and give an opportunity to get better nanny in Sydney.

Once you post ads or collected contacts who are looking for nanny jobs. You can start screening and interviewing process in order to select more suitable nanny for your family. You may get calls or emails with more inquires about your nanny vacancy like “what are hours to be worked”, “how do I will get pay” and etc. During call or email, you have got a chance to know about the candidate and their attitude. It gives you some ideas about the candidate. During interview you can ask about their experience as Sydney nanny first, and then about their background as well as how they will take care of children (think all the boundaries during preparing your questions) and etc. Ask for referrals, if they hesitate ask the reason. But, If they are good in their profession, they will not hesitate to give referral (Have this point in mind). As well as ask them details for background verifications. Discuss about good things and bad things which the nanny candidate faced in her career as nanny in Sydney or other areas. Do not forget to discuss the reasons for leaving previous employer. It will help you to understand more about your nanny candidate. Good luck to find more care-giving Sydney nanny for your children and family.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

The importance of hiring Canberra nannies

Canberra nannies are essential and vital for any new mom and dad. When parents are blessed with a new baby boy or a girl, they will have to make sure that they take good care of him. This is why they have to ensure his safety when they are busy at work; they have to make sure that this defenseless boy or girl is safe in their house when they are not with the baby. This is why they have to hire nannies to take care of their little child. In order to find the best nanny you have to follow these simple steps.

How to find the best nanny

If you are a part of a new mothers’ club, then go and ask your club members if they know good Canberra nannies that you can hire. You can also ask your relatives, friends, neighbors and even your friends at work. This is due to the fact that at a certain time, all of these people have been in the situation that you are in. After you get a list of names from your friends, start to interview these nannies one by one in your home. Also make sure that your baby is with you. A good nanny would arrive in time and will be well dressed.

Another thing that you should do is ask these Canberra nannies to bring you a reference list. A reference list is a list that contains the names of the people that the nanny worked for previously. This way you can ask these previous employers about the nanny’s performance and how good was she with the children. It is advised to call the references while the nanny is still at your home so you can ask her additional questions if they come up as a result of what you hear from the references.

Also you have to make sure that while you are interviewing the Canberra nannies that they know how to perform CPR on children and infants. This is due to the fact that the CPR process for infants is different from the CPR process for adults. This is why they have to be certified and know how to carry out CRP on infants. Matter of fact, it is advisable to know how to do it yourself as well, alongside the other residents of the house. There are places where you can take courses to teach you how to do CPR for infants.

After you narrow down the list of Canberra nannies invite them one nanny at a time to your house. Allow the nanny to interact with your infant while you are there, so you can check how she deals with the baby. You will see what she will do when the baby is crying or when he needs to get his diaper changed. You also should see how the baby reacts to the voice of the nanny, her touch and smell. It is vital to check this interaction between the baby and the nanny before you hire the services of any nanny.

After you decide on the best nanny from the many Canberra nannies that you interviewed, it will be time for you to back to your daily work and career. It will be the first time you go to work and leave your baby with the nanny. Of course, despite the fact that you have interviewed the nanny and called the reference list, but you will not be 100% sure that she is a good and reliable nanny. Don’t worry as there are ways that would allow you to be certain.

One of the most popular methods is a hidden camera, also known as a nanny camera. This camera would allow you to monitor and view what the nanny is doing with your baby the whole time while you are not at home. Nanny Cams are the best way to monitor the performance of Canberra nannies while you are not present in the house. These are state of the art cameras that are very easy to install and use. This will enable you to monitor the nanny pretty easily.

You don’t have to worry about where to put these cameras as they can be easily situated basically anywhere in your house and they will not be spotted by the Canberra nannies. After you go back home, you can easily view the whole footage of the Nanny Cam to see how did your nanny deal with your baby while you were out of the house. These steps are vital to make sure that you have a nanny that is caring and deals with your baby with care and love. If you follow these steps, you will make sure that your baby is being handled with care and love while your nanny is with him.

Source : http://nannyaustralia.snappages.com/blog/2012/07/27/the-importance-of-hiring-canberra-nannies

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

How to choose Canberra nanny?

Find a nanny in a city like Canberra is not easy as you think. Your Canberra nanny should be able to take care of your children and should be very professional. There are people who had made wrong decision on selection of nanny for their loving children. However, if you are very clear on your requirements as an employer and clearly explain it to candidate which will help you to find a nanny to fit with your requirements and needs. But, it is not easy as saying. So, here are some ideas, on what are the things to be taken into account when choosing a nanny.

#1 Ask about their experience as Canberra nanny

Get clear ideas about candidate's experiences as nanny is very important. An experienced nanny only knows how to handle children, how to take care of them, how to treat them when they are doing some “child play”, like spit-ups, tantrums and etc. Inexperienced nanny may not well aware about child play and may become rude with child when child spit-up, tantrums or any other similar actions from child. It is advisable to ask questions on all the boundaries like how nanny will treat the child during tantrums, how to teach child, how to feed child, what to do during child is sick in conditions, what to do when child is wet and etc. There are young babysitters who take care of children mostly as part-time also may be one of your candidate, but it is not better to go for them rather than a full-time nanny as far as your need is to find a nanny. You are going to leave your baby on others arm for few times, so you should take full responsible on selecting perfect nanny.

#2 Is your nanny living near Canberra?

Finding a Canberra nanny will make your and nanny's life easier. There are chances for her to be late, if she is near, it is easier for her. Apart from that, if she is near by area of you, she is very much friendly with the areas, that helps during an emergency. There are cases, where nanny is great in all the aspects, but she has to travel about few hours to come – but that may bring issues as she needs to take long time to travel and she may not comfortable on long run, on the other hand, she may not familiar with your area and may find difficulty on finding stores like pharmacy and etc.

# 3. Verify references
An experienced Canberra nanny will not hesitate to give you references of her previous work. If an experienced nanny hesitates to give references or does not have any, it is better to stop at that point and go for next candidate. Why do I say so? If you have good experiences with a nanny, you will recommend her, but if you have bad experiences you will not.

#4. Ask for ID and fingerprints for background verifications
At the moment, many Canberra nanny agencies providing these things (You can check some websites), because background check is must as you are going to leave your loving children with some unknown people. So, you should have very clear details about that person. Sometimes, some may not like to give such details, if so, you can ask them to explain why? If you find the explanation is reasonable, you can hire them under your own risk, but that is not recommended. Also, even if you find nanny with the help of nanny agencies, it is important to ask for ID and fingerprints for a background check.

#5. Ask more details about previous job
There are people who are fond of children mostly choose their career as nanny, such people may express their views on taking care of children for her previous employer. As well as she may explain about how she was treated well by her previous employer? Tailor more relevant questions related to personal, emotional things and etc, that will show you very clear picture of your candidate, apart from that, it helps you to understand well. You can ask about her struggles with her previous employer. Even a nanny is well experienced and very qualified with good degrees and other qualifications, there are chances to work with a bad employer. Give a chance to explain those in detail before make a judgment about your candidate. More friendly questions will make her to open up her mind more widely, that helps you to listen and learn about her and decide whether to hire her as your Canberra nanny or not. 

Also, note that there are experienced nannies (aged nannies) do not desire to change their way of care-giving as they still in thought that their old methods are still best. It is wise to put up front all your needs and requirements at first point on such things. If your Canberra nanny agrees, she will go further on your interview phase, otherwise go for next.

Find a Canberra nanny may be difficult without asking above mentioned questions in detail. Also, keep in mind, relationship between your family and nanny is kind of long -lasting relationship, as it is very important to put additional care on nanny selection. Good luck on finding your nanny.