If you are confident that hiring a nanny is the best way to go for childcare at home, then you should follow these four steps to find a perfect nanny. Instead of beginning by looking what is out there in the form of nanny professionals, you should start by moving your attention in on your own family for first step, understand your childcare needs and the situation of your family. Before contacting a nanny agency or any other source, know whether you want a live-in or live-out nanny, what type of work schedule will you be giving your nanny, extra housekeeping work that you want your nanny to do, whether you have to provide a car to nanny and other things. First of all think about the money that you can afford to spend on services of nanny. Consider all the information and write it up on a paper. You can move ahead on finding a nanny with this written description in your hand.

Other families and friends are the best places to start looking for a nanny if they have a nanny in their family currently. You can ask them for references and since they know you and your family they will recommend you a good nanny.

Step 2, the next step would be moving on technical things: While hiring a nanny, there are many technical and legal details that you need to consider, which includes meeting the standards of International Nanny Association.

Step 3, A nanny must be 18 years or older, she must have a proof of immunizations, she must be healthy and at least have a high school diploma or something equivalent to that. If the nanny is good with all these things, then you can move on her background check, a detailed interview, work history and reference check and a feedback of almost everything from her driving record, educational background to criminal history. Always make sure that a new nanny candidate is authorized to work in the country before hiring her as an employee.

Step 4, in this step the nanny spends time with your family. The most important thing in this situation is the relationship between child and the nanny. There should be two types of interviews while hiring a nanny, first with her alone and another with nanny and child together. Always discuss and be honest about your expectations and conditions of job at the time of interview and never hesitate to ask questions as she will be taking care of your child, so you need the best nanny in the world in your family.

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