{"id":869,"date":"2013-05-27T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2023-04-15T19:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T19:00:58","slug":"hiring-a-nanny-red-flags-to-be-on-the-look-out-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/nanny\/hiring-a-nanny-red-flags-to-be-on-the-look-out-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring a nanny? Red flags to be on the look out for."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Choosing a <a href=\"https:\/\/sossitter.ca\/nanny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nanny<\/a> to take care of your kids is not an easy task.  Indeed, you will trust a new person that you do not know yet with what is the most important to you in the world.  It is therefore a time to be cautious and careful and to follow a proven process to put all the chances on your side in the search for the perfect nanny.<\/br><br \/>\nDuring the hiring process, you should be on the lookout for red flags alerting you that you should not select a candidate.<\/br><br \/>\nTo help you, we have listed the signs that should make you think twice before hiring a nanny candidate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lack of professionalism:<\/strong> the candidate arrives late; she does not wear appropriate clothing and doesn\u2019t look \u201ctidy\u201d instead wears too much jewellery and perfumes, in short she does not match what is expected of a nanny; her phone rings during the interview and she answers it; she criticizes her former employers; her grammar or vocabulary leaves too much to be desired; she talks more about her personal life than her work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Questionable integrity:<\/strong> the candidate doesn\u2019t have references, refuses a background check; never stayed with the same family for a long time; does not look at you in the eyes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Affinity with children:<\/strong> If your little ones are present during the interview, the potential nanny is not paying attention to them; the candidate does not ask questions about the kids she will take care of, but only about salary and job specifics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\nOf course, in itself none of these signs should necessarily be a reason to exclude a candidate, but they are red flags to remind you to be careful and have a long list of positive things about this babysitter before hiring her, even for a trial period.<\/br><br \/>\nAnd when in doubt, listen to your mom instinct that is often more reliable than all the certificates in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the nanny hiring process, you should be on the lookout for red flags alerting you that you should not select a candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}