NannySitters<\/a>. What they do is pre-screen potential Nanny\u2019s by having them fill out an exhaustive\u00a0questionnaire, check references, and do background checks. They then do their best to match the right Nanny\u2019s to the right families based on the families needs. You\u2019re then provided with multiple resumes to look though, and you are able to phone interview any that you\u2019re interested in. In person interviews are setup if the phone interview goes well.<\/p>\nWhile we could have done this all on our own without the help of an agency, the benefit of using the agency is that so much of the work is done in advance for you. Not only that, because of the background checks they do and the pre-screening, I feel like we could be a lot more confident with the people we were sent to interview. They were also a very good resource just to have questions answered since we\u2019re new to all of this.<\/p>\n
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