While searching through a group of nannies to find someone who will take care of your children no matter if it is for only some hours or for a week, it is important that you do a detailed process of screening. Though the employers will do a background checks for nannies initially, but they may skip some information and hurry through another important step before making the decision to hire her and that is asking references.

You will always find a person who can take care of checking references if you are hiring a nanny with the help of nanny agency. This person will be qualified and experienced in finding out false references that nannies may add in their profiles in order to get the job. These nanny agencies may be very expensive, you can instead find a nanny with the help of online service. But when you go for online service, you will have to do lot of legwork on your own. In this situation, it is necessary that you have the right tools and mindset with the help of which you can check the references of nannies that you may be thinking of considering.

What to expect while checking references

You can learn lot of things from checking references by not only seeing what the references say but also by observing the things that are not said. References that come for nannies may be more approaching with information unlike other jobs where the references are restricted legally to what they might say about another person. It can be anything, good or bad.

You should always trust your gut feeling while making the first call and listen carefully to everything that the nanny reference says. While checking references you are more likely will be speaking with some other parent who is also interested to tell you about the nanny. You can ask anything you want to them, not only the behavior and credentials of the nanny but also other details of the family for which the nanny worked. It is very important that you pay attention to the behavior of the references while talking to them. It is very important that the person doesn’t sound distracted or rushed while talking about the nanny.

Finding a good nanny is not an easy task but it is not difficult as well if your references are good.

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