Babysitting is a fun and enjoyable thing for those who love children and kids a lot. If you are passionate towards child care, “Babysitting jobs” is better way to walk towards your career in child care. On the other hand, babysitting requires lots of patience, caring mentality, understanding about kids and excellent knowledge on child psychology other than qualifications & experiences.

If you are a fresher and would like to get babysitting job, you have to start with adding child care qualifications to your resume. There are lots of child care courses may be available along with first aid, CPR, house keeping courses. It is better idea to follow those short courses and fill up your resume with all those qualifications which will show you as a person with more knowledge about child care and you know what to do on what situations. You can check with your local area community centers/libraries or other child care institutes to follow those courses; usually red cross offers CPR and first aid courses. A book on parenting or child care will be a great tool for you to gather huge amount of knowledge on it. Nowadays, you can find hints and tips online to become a successful babysitter. All these things may help you on finding a suitable babysitting job for you. Anyhow, get hired for a job is not easy, it too need lots of efforts.

There are many methods to find a job as babysitter. Participating on volunteer child care programs organized by your local communities or offer pre-school or after-school child care as volunteer may help you in gaining experiences and parents may note about you. You may ask elementary school teachers to recommend you or you may contact parents and ask them if they have any babysitting job or help hand on taking care of their child. But these methods may not work well always, sometimes you may get frustrated by other people's reactions to your questions/query for the job.

You can always check your local newspapers; usually parents who are in need of babysitter or nanny used to post advertisements on newspapers. Other than that you can check out 'nanny wanted' notices on your local community bulletin forums, notice boards, local are library noticeboard, private super-markets and etc. Even, you can post an advertisement about your babysitting service on your local area newspapers or magazines which may cost you a bit, but you may get responses from parents and you may cover that cost by doing a single session babysitting.

Do not forget that word of mouth has good power in getting more jobs for you. Inform your friends, your seniors, relatives, neighbors, your parents' co-workers, friends & others that you are ready to do babysitting and you have more knowledge and qualifications on child care.

Nowadays, you can use internet to find the babysitting jobs portals that help you to post your resume and apply for babysitting jobs. It will be better if you can find any websites that specifically offer services to parents and nannies, in other words the websites that links babysitters and parents. Such website is a great source of getting jobs quickly as possible.

Once you find your prospective client, you may be asked lots of questions on email or instant messages or phone or face to face. You have to be well prepared. Parents may give you different scenario and may ask you on how would you react for that scenario? You have to be well prepared to answer such questions. Of course, you can explore on this blog to get more interview tips.

Last but not least, When it comes to interview, it may be a scary thing on meeting a stranger (your prospective client) specially if you are under age. So, it is always better to take your parent with you during interview, your parent should not be with you at your client's house, he/she may be in car out side or any other near by places. That may help in case if you are in any trouble.

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Finding a babysitter in a busy city like Melbourne is not an easy task. Parents should put some effort and time on hiring a new babysitter and parents should not forget that they are going to leave their loving kids on the hands of stranger for some time when they are not at home. That clearly indicates, how important the process of finding a babysitter is.

In Melbourne, you can find lots of babysitters who are teenagers who need to earn some money on their spare time. Hiring such younger people is not harm, but you have to ask more questions as that is the case. It does not mean that there are no or less experienced babysitters in Melbourne area, there are huge number of experienced sitters looking forward to work in Melbourne. But, how to find them, how to reach them, where to search for babysitters in a crowded city such that Melbourne, is the trouble for parents, but it is not....... There are various ways to reach potential sitter for you. By asking your friends, family members, neighbors or co-workers for some references. Other that those references you may post 'nanny wanted' advertisements on your local area newspapers or library notice board. But these days, internet makes the process of announcing your nanny vacancy much easier. You may find lots of online nanny services which help you to find sitters around your area with a small membership fee (just Google to find such services). There are local nanny agencies too exist who can help you to find your sitter easily. So, there is no trouble on reaching your target employee pool.

Then, you may have to design your advertisement, you have to include your requirements in very clearly; you may have few things that the sitter should do, some other things which a sitter should not do. It is always better to mention all these things early as possible on the advertisement. You can mention the duties to carry out, like take kid to swimming classes, drive elder son to badminton practices and wait there until he will finish his session and etc.

Once you will start to get responses, applications for the post of sitter for your kids, you have to carefully check each and every applications. First of all, you have to decide, whether you are going to hire young babysitters? Some parents do not like to hire young ones. But anyhow, even if they are young babysitters they might have good working experiences as a nanny and your friends might refer them to you. As it the case, you do not have to worry about your sitter's age. Anyhow, getting help from a young sitter who has no experiences may put you in risk.

If you are going through a babysitter agency, usually they do all kind of verifications and background checks. Anyhow, once you select a certain amount of sitters to interview who fits closely with your requirements. It is always recommended to do all verification and background checks by yourself regardless of from where sitters are referred to you. Because you should not risk you loving child. Once all the checks are done, you will have clear details about the sitters whom you are going to interview.

During interview, first of all, give an introduction about your family and ask the sitters to tell about her you can use your already verified reports about her and do cross-questioned to determine that she is telling the truth and she is a trust-worthy person. Also ask her,
Why does she choose to work as a sitter?
What are her motivations on child care career?
About her previous job experiences
The worst case she faced during her past employment
What she will do in case of child tantrums?
What she will do if someone at door?
What she will do in case of fire?
What she will do, if child is very sick?
Does she know the emergency police number?
Does she know the ambulance service number?

Think different scenarios and ask different questions, even if the sitter do not give perfect answers, you can judge on the way of answering and decide to hire her or not. Other than these questions, always clearly explain your requirements once again and ask her whether she is comfortable with those needs and will she be able to do all those things in the list? Also, do not forget to keep your child with you during interview – That will help you to note how the sitter is dealing with the child.

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