Increased number of busy parents in city like Melbourne widely opens door for nanny Melbourne, 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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For each and every parent their child is precious gift from goad and parent always wish to give the world's best care for their young kids. But due to different lifestyle to cover up economical, financial situations or due to passion towards career, usually both parents used to work either full time or part time. This is very true in a busy city, such as Melbourne. Because Melbourne is one of the well developed city with more population and with more demand for nanny Melbourne from working parents. Hiring a nanny may be a hardest thing in the view of parent, because they want to leave their ever loving kids on the arms of a stranger – The Nanny. Anyhow it is not hard as parents think. Find a nanny – the BEST nanny is not a difficult task if the parents know(understand) some basic things about nanny selection. In this article we will detail some tips and ideas to hire a nanny.

Identify type of nanny in need and responsibilities / duties of nanny

Before starting the search for nanny, you have to clear about they type of nanny that you  require; you may need a full time nanny – Works full-time (8-10 hours a day) regardless of day or night depends on your requirements, live-in nanny- the nanny lives with your family and take care of your kid. You may have to have accommodation arrangements on this case, Day-time nanny – Works only during day time, Part-time nanny – works few days or few hours of the week as per your requirements, On-call nanny – works only when she is needed or etc. You also have to think about tasks which nanny should do. Tasks may be housekeeping, cooking meals, take children to outdoor activities and/or pick up them from outdoor activities, help children on doing home work, teach children and etc.

Usually parents do not allow nanny to smoke or any guest to nanny during child care time. It is best practice on concern with child's safety. Parent can setup hidden video camera to monitor nanny, such nanny cameras are available at low cost in the market that you can get with single Google search.

There are more Asians parents in Melbourne, they prefer English speaking nannies to improve child's learning skills. Most of such foreign parents prefer nannies in their own community to develop religious activities in child's day to day life. You have to decide on it as what kid of nanny is needed for you.

You have to do small research using internet and find out ongoing hourly pay rate for nanny in Melbourne (or in the area where you are). That will help you to determine whether you are affordable to have a nanny or not. Anyhow, parents usually do not bother to pay for care their kids. But to make sure that you are not paying higher than on-going market price, the small research will help. Other than pay-rates (or in case if you are not affordable), you can think of some other motivates for nanny on top of pay; like household share, free holiday package with family and etc.

At this stage you may be able to list down, type of nanny that you are looking for, responsibilities of nanny that you require, dos and dont's of nanny, pay rates & other benefits, terms & conditions. Listing these will help you a  lot on finding the best nanny for your kid.

Where to find a nanny & What to ask from nanny at very initial stage?
You can find a nanny with help of nanny online directories that bring nannies & parents together (there you may find huge number of nannies in your area), nanny agencies, posting advertisement on newspaper (or magazine or etc). Once you locate a nanny, you should ask for references(may be nanny's previous clients), valid passport( or any identification card that is offered by government or driving license or etc), background check, police check report, certificate of completed child care courses, first aid course and etc, basic contact details. If you like you can check phone number re-verse look up as  background check, but as far as if you able to get the police check report, phone re-verse look-up may not be required.

Once you will get all required details from nanny applicants, you can filter and go for phone interview or face to face interview. You cannot and should not take decisions to hire a nanny only with phone interview.

If you are very busy person and have no time for all kind of checks and filtering nanny applicants, you can go for nanny agencies who can help you, because nanny agencies do thorough checks on each and every nanny who are registered with them But, you should not hire a nanny without interviewing her by yourself even she is recommended by nanny agency.

Usually nanny agencies do extensive analysis on every nanny that on their database; the analysis includes criminal checks with fingerprints, employment background checks, verified references, phone reverse lookup and etc. As a reuslt of such detail analysis, nanny agencies charge some high fees from parents. Anyhow you may not sure on kind of checks that the nanny agency does; if so, you can ask it to them as well as aks about their services from their previous clients (It is better to make and appointment with their previous client and ask questions about the agency). Also, by asking what number of years the nanny agency is in business and number of nannies it places every month, you can learn more about professionalism of the agency.

In summary, it is recommended to do all kind of checks for a nanny along with a face to face interview and that will result the best nanny for you.

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Melbourne is one of the popular Australia city with massive number of working crowds. Mostly both parents of a child used to be working full-time, such people in Melbourne need another help hand for sure to look after their young children and/or babies. Such situation opens more market for nanny Melbourne and many parents are in need of finding the BEST nanny for their child and they struggle on finding their nanny as far as the nanny market is filled up with very few spammers/irresponsible people. If you are such a parent who is in need of a nanny in Melbourne, keep reading.

Usually, parents need nanny to look after their children during their absence at home. There may be exceptions, sometimes, parents may be working from home, but cannot spend time with child due to their job. There are lots of ways to find a nanny in city like Melbourne. Let's discuss.......

Word of mouth – That is one of the powerful tool on getting best nanny for your family. Tell your relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers and people with whom you talk to, that you are in need of a nanny for your child and spread the word. As a result, people may recommend nannies whom they worked with already or nannies to whom they know already in your area. Usually, most of parents do not do this, such parents do not aware the power of this method.

Visit to park – Specially in day time, nannies used to bring children to park and enjoy sometime on park with children and helped some outdoor activities for children. If you visit to park on that time, you may get chance to talk to nannies over there and ask them if they know anyone who are read to be your nanny. Usually, nannies used to have big friends networks and exchange nanny jobs Melbourne with other nannies when they are busy their other clients.

Nanny Wanted Notice – You can use your local library, community board and etc to post your nanny wanted notice. It is free. Other than that you can use your local newspapers to find a nanny in your area. This may cost you more.

Nanny Agency – Find a nanny agency in your high street and get registered with them, they may require some initial payment to register with. But in return, many nanny agencies have collection of nannies in that particular area, huge database of nannies. That may help you quickly to find one for you. Also, professional nanny agencies do all background checks and other verifications when a nanny is getting registered with them, so you may not need to worry about it when you are looking for a nanny through agency.

Online Nanny Directories – These can help you to find nannies in your area, specially near by your post code. Such directories gives you some trail period to post an ad and see the response to your ad. To read the messages/replies to your ad, you may need to upgrade your membership with them. Such directories link nannies with parents. Mostly they do act like nanny agencies, but these directories does not do background checks and etc.  To find such directories you can always use Google, for example, if you are in Melbourne, Google “Nanny Melbourne”- That may list you nannies around Melbourne or such nanny directories where you can locate/find nannies in Melbourne.

Gumtree.com & Craiglist.com – These are very popular ads posting sites where you can post your nanny wanted ads (Craiglist is free and you may need to pay few bucks for Gumtree). When it comes to responses, it may be comparatively lower than online nanny directories

Any of above mentioned methods can be used to find the BEST nanny for your family, good luck with your nanny finding processes.

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Sydney, the capital of New South Wales state is one of the most popular city in the world with more population compare to other cities in Australia. Finding nanny jobs Sydney is not a very hard thing because of there is more demand for nannies as far as Sydney has many working parents (double income families) another reason that makes getting a nanny job quicker is, Sydney has about one fifth of total Australia population. Even though there are more demand for nannies in Sydney, if you are willing to get a nanny job there, you should be well organized and ready to beat your competition and get the job offer. In this article, let's discuss on how to do that?

Preparing your resume
As the very first step, you should prepare your resume in professional manner. In a professional resume, you have to include your most recent photograph (with a smile is better),  full name & contact details, educational qualifications (more in details about child care courses that you had completed or following, first aid courses, cookery courses, house keeping courses, child psychology  courses and etc), your working experience as a nanny (details of your previous work experience, if you look after your younger siblings, you may detail that as well), your passion towards child care, some comments on why do you choose to be a nanny & what motivates you of being a nanny, references from previous employers, references from reputed people from your local area and etc.

Where to find nanny jobs in Sydney
Once you are ready with your resume to apply for nanny job, the next question is, where to find the job? There are various methods to do so.

Word Of Mouth :
It is most powerful method to get a job, spread the word that you are looking for a nanny job, spread it among your friends, relatives and etc, you may use your social media accounts (like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and etc) to say so even. Your friends may refer you to their friends whom are in need of a nanny.

Registering with brick and stone nanny agencies :
You can find nanny agencies in high streets of Sydney or around your local area. You can get register with such an agency and they may help you to find your prospective employer. There are some agencies do it for free, on the other hand, some agencies may require some commissions from your pay (once you will get the job through them). Most of such agencies, usually do all kind of checks like verification checks, background checks and etc for their clients (i.e : your employer – parents).

Registering with online nanny agencies :
Due to development of technology you can find nanny agencies that operate online as well. Before register with such an agency, you have to look up for their physical address and make sure they are not fake and they are registered as nanny agency. These online nanny agencies too may follow up same procedures as 'brick and stone' agencies, but they may do it quickly due to the reason that they are operating online and everything can be organized quickly and easily. They may have instant messaging services which you can communicate with your prospective employers.

Online nanny directories :
There are various online nanny directories that has huge number of nanny job offers and list of nannies. You can find such one nanny directories in Sydney by searching on Google. Such directories just connect nannies with parents, they usually do not do all kind of verification checks, background checks for their clients. But parents may do very often. Usually, such directories are free to register with and even they do not charge commissions from your pay as well. You may simply find nanny directories in  Sydney by searching “nanny jobs Sydney” on Google or other related terms.

Local community boards, forums and other local areas :
You can post a note about your nanny service on your local community board, forums or local library. Other than these, you can leave your note on supermarkets (usually there are supermarkets place ads on 'room for rent' and etc, so they may not hesitate to help you as well), local private gym, park notice board and etc.

Invest few bucks for your marketing :
You can give advertisements on your local area magazines, newspapers, community magazines and etc. You may create a small visiting card and distribute it to your local area members with kids (it may take more effort, but conversion rates may be higher).

How to approach your prospective employer and how to face interviews :
If you are called for an interview in person or over email or telephone, you should  always ready to talk in pleasant and professional manner. You may learn such interview manners by reading articles online (use Google to find such articles). Specifically for nanny interview, do not forget to discuss the time that you are required to work, what you should do (duties), what you should not do, what are terms and conditions and etc. Do not forget, child care requires giving lots of kind, love, dedication, patience and commitments compare to other jobs & as a nanny, you will be a part of the child's growth in terms of behavior as well which totally determines the child's future.

Good luck to get the best nanny jobs or babysitting jobs.

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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.

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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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Nanny agencies were created to form the connection between nannies and parents. Their main intention is to recruit the applicants for nanny job and looking for parents. Then they will match both of them hoping to satisfy the requirements of clients. They do all these things for money. In many nanny agencies today the parents pay the placement or registration fees. Every nanny agency is different from each other. Different agencies follow different restrictions and rules. An agency could be newly established, old one, a one-man show or a corporation. This doesn’t matter as long as they meet the client’s demands. No matter how good the agency is, parents still have a doubt in their mind. Some questions like what if the agency is not legitimate come to mind often. You should be well aware of the methods of knowing whether the agency that you chose is good or not.

While choosing a nanny agency to help you in hiring nanny for childcare, you should keep your goal in mind. You want to have the best nanny for your kids and you look for the help of an agency to make the nanny search less annoying. First of all, be sure that the nanny agency of your choice has positive reviews. You have to choose a reputable agency. You can choose a newly established agency as long as their rate of success is high. You should be very interested in choosing an agency. This is necessary for both the nanny applicants and parents.

A nanny agency with exceptions service should save time for both you and the nanny. Both nannies and parents should be treated similarly by the agency as both are the clients of the agency. There are different things that a client must know about when choosing a nanny agency. The things may be fundamental but it would be of great value.

Parents should be aware of the basic details about the agency. This consist information such as the company and its owner’s name, how long the company has been working, its rate of success and likes. Parent should also determine if the agency is subscribed to any local or international nanny agencies. Agencies should abide the rules and regulations set apart by the organizations to which they are connected.

Apart from that, parents should be aware of the recruitment policies and terms of the agency. The agency will perform important examinations and interviews of the nanny provided by them. They will share the outcomes with you in writing.

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It can be an overwhelming process to hire a nanny, nanny contract can be a good tool that you can use during this process. This will help to make sure that all the terms and conditions of the job are properly understood by you and the candidate for nanny job before hiring her. The most important mistake that can happen during the process of hiring the nanny is being unclear about your expectations. You should tell her directly about your expectations from the beginning, it will help you to make sure that there are no issues in your relationship with the nanny during the job.

Communication is important
Clear and open communication is one of the very important elements of a good relationship between the parent and nanny. Families who promote an atmosphere where communication is appreciated will set a good example for the children and nanny too. A detailed nanny contract that is that is signed by both the parties before the process of hiring is complete is the first actual step in a good relationship between nanny and family.

Because of the working atmosphere which is untraditional in majority of nanny jobs, nannies are always expected to work for long hours and the barriers of expectations between the nanny and family can daze easily. This is the fact for all nannies, but live-in nannies go through this a lot. A nanny contract should develop these barriers from the first day of job so that parent and nannies are comfortable in understanding what to expect. One of the main reasons of argument is high salary demands by nannies and additional working hours and extra work requests by parents. From the side of parents, they are always not happy with nannies using their cars for personal works, leave the house without consent, inviting guests over at night into their house or purchase something that is not approved by them. Usually nannies do not confront the parents for any matter, they try to avoid any type of argument and they just refuse to discuss the issues or any type of unhappiness with the jobs, instead of trying to solve the dispute, they just quit the job all of a sudden.

If you don’t want such issues in your family, you should discuss everything at the time of hiring a nanny.

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Below mentioned are some queries that you have to answer to decide which type of nanny is perfect for your family:

1. The Age of your children
2. How many days in a week you need nanny service?
3. Daily working hours for a nanny.
4. Do you need a nanny at night or a specialist nanny for newborns.
5. Are you looking for a live-in or live-out nanny?
6. Are you looking for other nanny services such as housekeeping?
7. What is your budget for nanny service and what is the prevailing rate in your neighborhood?
8. Do you need a full time nanny or part time nanny?
9. Do you have enough space at your house for live-in nanny? Can you provide her a private bedroom and bathroom? Can you give her access to your family car?

Benefits of Live-in Nanny at your house:
You never know when you need to work on a project that may take long time, sometimes it may need you to work late at night, travel out of station. In such conditions live-in nanny would be a great option. She can provide full time coverage and flexibility. They will be there when you need them to take care of your house and kids.

Full Time Nanny Benefits:
A full time nanny can also be of good advantage when it comes to running the household more effectively and efficiently.

When your children are left with full-time nanny, you can notice that your children are communicating with nanny. If your child is comfortable with nanny then that itself is a good way to know if the nanny is a good fit. It is really a great stress reliever when you have someone whom you can trust and depend on. When you have a good nanny, you can be assured that your children are safe when you are not around.

Advantages of Part-time Nanny
Part-time nannies are more affordable compared to full-time nannies. They usually have their own source of transportation. If you are child needs after school care, part-time nannies are perfect choice. If you work from home and not able concentrate on your child’s activities, part-time nannies can be of good help to you.

So, both live-in and live-out nannies are beneficial, every family is looking for various types of nanny services. Some prefer live-in nannies and some prefer live-out nannies, both are beneficial in certain ways.

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If your family is one among many other families out there, then you have been through a huge list of nannies. It can be really confusing and frustrating as a parent for you and disappointing for your children because you have to break and form new bond constantly with your nannies. If you want to get over with this habit, the most important thing that you can do is get feedback from their old nannies. If you think this is not possible, you can go online and read various testimonials from nannies who understand the most common problems in the world of nannies. Let us see the most common complaints from various nannies throughout the world.

A Confused job description
No one likes to be surprised by extra set of work every day at the office, this would be an unpleasant surprise, especially when it is the responsibility of someone else and the same thing will also happen with nanny. Childcare is a professional aim of a nanny. It is absolutely fine to ask a nanny to do other housekeeping work, but you can’t expect her to do it without requesting her and you should pay a good reward for that. If you are looking for a complete service of maid, then you should rather hire a maid. The important concern of nanny should always be taking care of children. Childcare should be the primary concern of your nanny, housekeeping work should always be secondary. Nanny can do things like attending school functions, take kids to games and running errands but all these have to mentioned to her while hiring her. If you are expecting her to attend your family vacation, you should let her know this in advance. You have to be very clear about all these things with nanny from the first day.

Nannies not appreciated
Many nannies say that there are various ways by which employers can make them feel appreciate for their work, at the same time there are many ways to show that the employer is just taking advantage of nanny’s services. Childcare is something more than simply sitting around the house throughout the day. Nanny is always out with kids taking them for different activities that may cost her money, she has to spend money out of her pocket for gas, snacks and other things. Families reimburse the nanny for her expenses but they often forget or neglect to appreciate her for doing all those things. Along with reimbursement if you appreciate her service, she would be very happy. Another common thing is disrespecting her personal time. If the family asks nanny to take care of children during her non-working hours occasionally then that is not a problem, but this shouldn’t happen all the time.

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