The idea of using nanny placement services has been around for centuries. Nanny placement services provide increasingly important roles in society today. With the need for both parents to work in many homes, nanny services are often an invaluable tool in the home.
Finding nanny placement services that are tailored to the specific needs of a family household can be a difficult and daunting task, but it is not by any means impossible. Nanny placement services are available to fit all manners of homes and to take care of all sorts of children.
Laws regulating nanny services also require a modicum of confidentiality. Make sure that the nanny services references are from actual clients who use the services of the provider. Make sure that the location of the nanny services is suitable to individual needs as well as to the needs of the children. Finding nanny services that are close or readily available is not always a good idea and can frequently be hazardous to the children’s safety and well being.
The drawback to hiring a nanny placement agency is the exorbant fees to all those involved. For example, the family employer will have to pay a referral or finder’s fee, equivalent from 8 percent to 17% of the nanny’s salary. Think about it – that’s a lot and what if the Nanny doesn’t work out? Let’s see in my first year of being a single mother, I spent over $20,000 in placement fees and the selection was worse than finding a Nanny off a free classified service like Craigslist.
Why? I was in a desperate situation to balance out my life – becoming single parent in a horrible divorce and trying to maintain a standard of living with an infant isn’t an easy task. On the other hand and at the same time, nannies and caregivers who go through an agency’s placement services have to have their paychecks reduce to pay the agency for their referral work commissions. Both of these reasons are the primary factors that parents and caregivers alike loathe having to go to an agency to hire good help. Sometimes you’re lucky and sometimes you pick a bad apple.
