Canberra is the capital of Australia is one of the crowded city with busy people around. Most of the people, young parents are mostly working and are in need of someone to look after their babies or children. That raises the demand of nannies in Canberra, as a result the demand for Canberra nanny jobs increases. Lets discuss on how to find the best family to work with as a nanny.

Finding the family which is compatible to work with determines the success of nanny jobs. Some basic compatible issues should have to be addressed during interview phase of nanny selection. On long run, as good relationship between nanny and the family develops, the compatibility issues may be disappeared. By facing interviews and checking out the job requirements online or offline, nanny is learning more and more in depth about the nanny jobs.

Listings of nanny jobs in Canberra can be found by browsing online nanny job directories or offline news paper or magazine advertisements in Canberra. With the listings, requirements of the nanny job, post code of the house to work and contact details of advertiser can be found. By reading requirements, the expectations of family can be outlined. There may be 'must do', 'should do' items as well as 'having these are plus' items on nanny advertisement. As a nanny, you have to search for more information on the advertisement like the size of the family, number of children to be taken care of, other duties to be completed like housekeeping, traveling with family on vacations and etc. By checking out the family's detailed information on offline listing or online listing, nanny have to take careful decision whether to go ahead with that family or not.

If you are happy with the listed nanny jobs and would like to continue further with that family, you can contact them via email, or online messaging services which are provided by some websites or via phone call. By contacting the family, you can get more details about the job as well as the family which is in question. You can get details of children, their ages, special needs and etc. It is better to avoid asking about salary at this stage.  During conversion with the family, nanny can understand on how they talk, are they forcing or easy-going and etc.

If everything seems to be okay, you can ask them for interview or to meet in person and can discuss more things in person along with salary and other benefits and requirements. If the family is ready to hire you, ask them to go for a nanny contract and put everything in the document that both parties agrees and signed up. That will help you to understand each other and have more compatibility.

Source : http://nannyblog.jimdo.com/2013/02/07/some-ideas-on-finding-better-canberra-nanny-jobs/

Brisbane is the capital of Australian state Queensland and it is third most popular city in Australia. As it has decent amount of population babysitting jobs Brisbane is too have good demand as well as there are good amount of people who are willing to serve as a nanny or babysitter in Brisbane. In this article, lets discuss on what to be considered to become a successful Brisbane babysitter or nanny.

When searching a nanny jobs, the important thing to be considered at first point is, compatibility between family and nanny. These can be well discussed and addressed during nanny interviews. There are some steps that a nanny has to go through to get hired. On each step a nanny can learn more better about the job market and the expectations of families in his/her area, say Brisbane.

As first step a nanny Brisbane may look into online listings of jobs, there are various sources online, if you want to find listing, better to do Google to find. By looking at a listing of nanny jobs, a nanny can read about the job requirements of the parents, what are the “must do” or “should do” in the job listings and etc. This will give some ideas about the family and will help on take decision whether to go ahead with that listing or not. By reading the lists, nanny can find out number of children to be taken care of, number of required working hours, other terms and etc. Overall, by looking a listing, nanny can understand about the family whether they are easy-going or difficult to handle.

If the job listing is impressive or if the requirements are okay to deal with, as next step  nanny can contact the parents (who placed the ads) over the website and clarify his/her questions about the job and requirements via website's instant message or e-mail. You may ask about the ages of children, number of children and special needs of children and more other details about children at this position. (In case if all those details are not clearly stated in the advertisement for to hire a nanny.) During getting reply for the emails or instant messages, a nanny can easily understand about the family on how the answers are being replied, is there any forceful words used? Are the answers are in polite manner? Are the answers are rude? - these helps to determine whether to continue further with that Brisbane nanny jobs advertisement or not.

In case the email process go well, next step will be phone interview. At this point a nanny may want to know more details, like hours required to do the job, is there any specific hours in a day, duties to be completed (like cooking for children and or family,   cleaning up house, driving children to school or etc), more information about children and their current behaviors and personalities, discipline in children to be take care (or will the family look into this) and etc. By talking over phone, you can get more detailed information about the nanny job. If a nanny is ready to work for that family after the phone interview, the next phase is in-person interview.

Nanny can ask for appointment and attend an interview face to face with family and children whom the nanny is going to be taken care of. At this point nanny can observe about the family, how the parent treat nanny, how children behave in front of parents, and how children behave in front of nanny, how parents treat their children and etc. At this stage salary details, other terms and conditions too may be discussed, as well as a nanny may be asked for references to check with. If the things are still smooth a nanny may be hired for the family.

But some cases, there may not mutual agreement set for some terms and conditions, on such situations family may look for next candidate. Anyhow, attending interview will be a good for a nanny as she can learn a lot by so.

Source : http://stephenydavid.typepad.com/blog/2013/02/steps-in-getting-nanny-jobs-in-brisbane.html

Number of double income couples with kids in Melbourne, that is number of working parents, is increased day by day in Melbourne. It creates lack of time for parents to take care of child, guide the child in discipline, teach kids in doing school works and etc. That opens up (in other words “increase”) the demand for nanny jobs Melbourne. Even though Australia is one the English speaking country, these days cities like Melbourne are more populated with Asians who wants to improve their kids' English. This kind of situation creates more demand for English nannies in Melbourne. Let's focus on some tips to follow to get nanny jobs in city like Melbourne and earn good pay.

If you are looking for nanny job or babysitting job, the very initial step you should be following is, preparing your resume in professional manner. The best nanny resume may include the followings :
Name and contact details of nanny
Objectives
Family background
Educational qualifications (Demonstrate in depth about child care courses, first-aid courses, cookery courses and other related courses that you had successfully completed or following at the moment)
Experience as a nanny or as a babysitter (If you are the eldest in your family and if you took care of your younger siblings – do not forget to say about it as well)
Why do you like to work with children?
References (Contact numbers, Email addresses, Physical addresses of your previous employers or some well reputed people in the society who know you very well)
Availability of police check document
Availability of driving license & Availability of vehicles
Are you registered with local child care center or any other child care related organizations, as a child care professional?

The next step on finding nanny jobs, is identifying on where to look for nanny jobs. There are lots of nanny agencies available online. You can find them using a single Google search. Specially, if you want to find nanny jobs in Melbourne, enter ' Nanny Jobs Melbourne ' would give you some list of nanny agencies or nanny job offers in Melbourne. Once you find them, you have to register with them to apply for nanny jobs available on their website. Please remember that you may not need to pay to get registered with the nanny agency's website that links nannies with parents. Usually the employer (parents) used to pay some amount to get registered with. In case, if there are no established or reputed nanny agency can be found online, you may go for your local high streets and register with traditional nanny agencies. Otherwise, you may look for nanny jobs in your local news papers, magazines or say Melbourne Craiglist or other classified ad posting websites for nanny vacancies. The other best way is, spread by word of mouth, tell all the people that you are looking for a nanny job in the particular area. If you are more interested to become a nanny and if you have some funds with you to invest on getting a nanny job, you may have printed cards with your experiences as a nanny along with contact details and distribute to your friends, relatives, neighbors and etc, as well as you can give a short advertisement saying that you are looking for a nanny job (do not forget to advertise your experiences and qualifications) on local newspapers or magazines. By doing any of the above mentioned ways, you will be able to locate on where to find your prospective employer.

Once you find the place to apply for nanny jobs, and if you apply for nanny jobs, you may be called up for an interview, usually initial interviews are conducted via telephone or e-mail or using any other instant messengers (example : Skype video calls). If you give good impression to your prospective employer at initial interview, you may be invited for a face to face interview with the parents (employer).

For the interview, it is must that you impress your employer with the professional and fresh look. You should dress up neatly, make sure you do not show up any tattoos or body art to the interviewer. Remember, the parent requires you to teach some discipline to the children, so of course, you should have it yourself before you will have to teach it.  Follow up other interview procedures like, make sure you turn off your mobile phone, there is no bad smell from you (neither of your body or mouth), your teeth is cleaned well, polish your shoes, less (or no) jewelry,  soft voice, polite, curtsey in answers and etc. Once the interview is over, do not forget to say “thank you” and once you will reach home, do not forget to send a thank you note via email. That will create a better positive image about you in employer's mind.

Also, remember, you may or may not be offered with the job. If you may not be selected, do not reduce your motivation to search for another. If you feel, if there are any mistakes, do not forget to correct as well and keep in mind that attending interviews too are some kind of experiences as that gives you better picture of current job market.

Source : http://babysittersaus.weebly.com/1/post/2013/03/steps-to-follow-to-get-nanny-jobs-in-melbourne.html

Brisbane becomes a busy city day by day with very busy working parents who are looking for help from nannies or babysitters to look after their babies or children and take care of many aspects of the babies or children like helping children to get ready to school, having breakfast, go to school on time, teaching children & helping on doing school home works, preparing dinner, house keeping and etc. Brisbane has more Asian population who are very keen on education of their children, specially English education, that leads more demand for good English speaking nannies or babysitters in Brisbane and opens more vacancies for nanny jobs Brisbane for qualified and experienced nannies. In this article, let us look into how to get nanny jobs in Brisbane without much difficulties and how to improve career as a nanny and get well paid.

To get babysitting jobs or nanny jobs in Brisbane, you have to have three important things, such as good qualifications,  experience, and excellent marketing strategy. All these three will help you to demand more pay and get jobs quickly than others. To get qualifications you can follow some courses related to babysitting and child care on recreational centers in Brisbane, to market yourself, i.e to get jobs, you can register with websites that offer nanny vacancies, that is getting registered with nanny agencies websites. If you are fresher without any experiences reading books or magazines on child care too will help you to gain more knowledge on how to handle babies or children of different age groups. If you have both two and have good pleasant and more kind towards kids and love working with kids, of course, you may get hired even if you are a fresher. Then, you can gain more experiences and go ahead from there.

If you can deliver good services to a family and your services can be spread out via word of mouth to others in the area and that leads more demand for you. So, do not forget that giving your best for the kids and the family returns you more job in the area. Anyhow, there may be more difficulties on getting a nanny job as fresher in Brisbane. To get a job, first of all, you have to make sure that you followed some courses on child care, first aid courses and improve your qualifications towards that job, as far as qualifications are very important in case if you do not have any experiences. If you are good with your qualifications to become a nanny, go online and search for nanny jobs Brisbane, you may find websites that offer details of job openings for nannies in Brisbane, you can get registered with them and start apply for the job. The key thing is, you have to present your resume in an attractive way to get hired. Clearly state your name and contact details, your qualifications – what are the courses you followed up, what kind of books you had read on and etc, what kind of job that you are looking for (full-time or part-time or live-in nanny; if part-time when you are available for the service), police clearance copy, your registration copy with local child care center (registered nannies get more preferences), references for your background check (clear contact details of references like email, phone number and etc), your family background details, your education details, the areas that you wished to service for, and at last but not least, do not forget to write about your passion towards taking care and working with babies and children. Also, do not forget to upload your recent photograph which has a smile on your face.

Once you are get registered with nanny agency website in Brisbane, sometimes, agency may verify your background and do other relevant checks. Sometimes, employers do it. Once the verification process is done, you may be required to attend an interview in person or video-call online or may be via phone. You have to be prepare for anything and ready to present your passion towards child care and explain your qualifications on child care. You can practice yourself on attending interview and get list of questions that you may wish to ask the employer or the nanny agency representative (If you are asking questions, make sure there is sense in those questions which shows up your ability to do babysitting or nanny jobs).

As a fresher into the market, you may notice the market would have been dominated by experienced nannies. It may be difficult to get hired on that situation; but if you have more added qualification and depth knowledge on babysitting you can be hired even if well experienced nannies are on the interview. To add more qualifications and skills, you have to follow up more related courses like child psychology course, cookery classes (specially to make foods for babies or children), house-keeping courses and etc. All these courses can be found around Brisbane area, do some search on internet or ask your friends, they may help you to locate such places which may help you to improve your depth knowledge in babysitting and perform well at interview and get hired.

Other than using websites to get registered with nanny agencies, still you can find traditional style brick and stones nanny agencies in Brisbane, you can register with them as well, that opens more opportunity for you to get nanny jobs quickly. Make sure you pass all the details which mentioned on above paragraph to these nanny agency as well. Apart from that, you can check out local newspapers, magazines for job openings, also, spread the word that you are looking for nanny jobs or babysitting jobs among your friends and relatives – they may help you to find a family to work with. Do not forget to read other nannies experiences on books or online blogs; search for nanny blogs online and you can read huge number of experiences posted by other nannies, that will help you to improve yourself and develop your career as a nanny.

Source : http://nannyjobsinperth.webs.com/apps/blog/show/24491930-how-to-get-nanny-jobs-brisbane-without-experiences-but-with-qualifications

Perth has more working parents compare to previous decades, that makes parents to struggle to take care of their children, and creates the need for nanny. When it comes to nanny jobs, there are various types of it, like full time nanny jobs, part time nanny jobs, babysitting jobs and etc as well as a nanny can find a nanny job that suits to her requirements as well. The competition for nanny jobs Perth is high due to, there are more nannies in Perth are ready to offer more customer satisfied services to parents. To win the competition and get the nanny job in Perth, a nanny should be well-talented, experienced with so pleasing & kind personality. We will discuss on what are the options available for a person who is looking forward to work as a nanny in a crowded city like Perth and how a nanny can beat the competition to get the job.

There are nanny jobs, summer nanny jobs, nanny jobs with housekeeping, babysitting jobs Perth. First of all you have to decide on what to choose on available options for you to deliver your nanny services. Also, you should not forget to find out your passion towards child care as well as your strengths and weakness related to the job that you seek for. It is better to keep all these initial things in your mind and develop your resume. Usually employers need to get details about your qualifications (in terms of child care, cookery, house keeping & etc,) your experiences and your qualities. Detailing all these three in your resume which your prospective employer expects, opens more room for you to get the job easily than your competitors.

To perform well and continue with job, one should enjoy the job what he/she does. Usually nanny jobs are not get bored, because most of us feel happy with presence of kids/children and enjoy those moments; specially little kids may give more fun and may not let you rest your legs as far as those little kids are normally very busy by themselves without thinking about others. These may create more pleasant and fun environment which may put you to stick with nanny jobs and develop your nanny career.

Experienced nannies get more priority than inexperienced ones, because parents always want the best nanny for their child, and parents always comfortable and feel trust with experienced nannies. Anyhow it does not mean that inexperienced nannies cannot get job, but those inexperienced may get more competition from experienced ones, and may need to add more qualities and qualifications to their resume to get the job.

Parents used to monitor comfort level of nanny with kid, like how nanny deals with kid, does the nanny a short tempered and etc. To do so, many parents are using (and emphasized to use) secret cameras to monitor nannies. However, if you are ready to give lots of kind, care along with patience you may not get into trouble which may lead more future jobs for you by reference of current employer.

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Brisbane is the capital of Queensland, Australia with 2.15 million population. It is most populated city in Queensland and third most populated city in Australia. As a result, the city has more working moms and dads who are in need of helping hand on taking care of their young kids. This creates demand for nanny jobs Brisbane. Due to rapid development of technology, it is easy to find nanny jobs in Brisbane by online. Let's look into some tips for online nanny jobs seekers.

You can find huge number of websites that help you to find a nanny job specifically in your local city like Brisbane. Most of those sites do not require a fee or commission  on pay and those offer complete FREE services for nanny job seekers. What a nanny has to do is, create an account with them, set up/fill details, upload resume, photograph and etc. Many professional nanny websites that link nanny and parent do not show up/share contact details (like telephone number, addresses, email and etc) and/or other private details (like references details) on public. Such websites require to login and require the person to be registered as parent (these websites charge good amount of money from parents to get a nanny for them) to see details of nanny.

On the other hand, there are websites that places all contact details (specially telephone number, email) on public. So, anyone can see your details. That put risks for you, anyone can get your telephone number and do reverse look-up and find your current address, previous address, relative details, associate details and etc. That may lead to prank calls, unnecessary letters, strange visits and etc. But the chances are very less due to the reason that many reverse look up services require pay. Anyhow, you have to understand the risk of showing up your contact detail on public other than to your prospective client.

By now you understand that your potential employers can learn more about you by doing reverse look-up of your phone number and get to know details of you. At the same time if there is any phone number from your employer, you can do a reverse look-up and know more about your prospective employer that may help you on the job.

If you are called for a face-to-face interview, it is always better to take your friend or relative with you and it is important to inform presence of your friend to your interviewer. Your friend may wait on car or any coffee-bar on the near area. As well as give the address, phone number of home that you are going for interview, exact time of interview to someone in your family or any of your friends for safety.

Also keep a note on how the employer communicate with you, what they answered and not answered. If it is email, take printout at home and keep it in your home, if it is  call, do not forget to record the number from which you get the call.

Before accepting do not forget to have some chat with their former babysitter or nanny. That vies you more comfort level to work with. During the interview you may ask those to your interviewer. If there is no troubles interviewer always ready to give such details.

Hope all these hints are helpful for your nanny job hunt and get the best nanny jobs for your comfort. Best of luck with your career in child care.

Source : http://babysittersaus.weebly.com/1/post/2013/04/hints-to-get-a-good-nanny-jobs-brisbane.html

Even though child care centers are there in Australia for several decades, these days babysitting jobs have more demand, due to increased number of working parents and more development in lifestyle. Babysitting jobs is the pool that is being used by unemployment people until they get a job, due to good earnings with this job. That creates lots of competition for full time babysitters. How a babysitter can face such high competition and get a babysitting job – Let's discuss the marketing plan for a babysitter.

Word-of-mouth is one of the traditional and stilling well-working method to get more   jobs for you. Tell your friends, relatives and neighbors that you are ready to babysit and ask them to recommend you for their friends, neighbors, relatives or co-workers. Always go comparatively lower price than child care centers, that will open more jobs for you. May be there are people who are not happy with their current sitter or may not afford big payouts for babysitting which child care centers demand, or may be there are people who do not happy with their current sitters performance (the way that he/she babysits with) or etc. In such cases, you have more room.

Printing visiting cards with your details and experiences too may work well. You can go for low cost budget to print these cards or may make your own using your PC or PC on your local area library (If you are familiar with some software like Microsoft Word or etc, otherwise, you can get help from your friends to do so), take print outs, cut & paste those in small card-boards and make them look like visiting cards. Distribute those visiting cards people around your area. To distribute you can place your visiting cards to all homes in your area (like postman places letters and other ad-words people place their details to home), or you can go to crowded areas like shopping mall, cinema theater & etc, and distribute your visiting cards to people who come over there, specially for the people with kids and babies. Another places to place your visiting cards are your local area community board, library, local area coffee-shops, gyms, swimming pool, church board or etc.

Do not forget your local area nanny agencies, you can register with them, make sure you give you all contact details, most recent photograph (nice smiling one), your qualifications, experiences and other details. There are some agencies that may charge  you are percentage of hourly payment once you will get a job via that agency. There are some community magazines, newspapers which may accept ads on low cost or free. You can try to place ads on them as well. Of course, if such ad gives you back at least one client, one day or one evening babysitting would compensate your ads cost. Search on internet and get registered with online nanny directories which help to link nannies/babysitters with parents. Make sure you fill up your profile in professional manner and you have your all details there along with references. Most of such directories are free of charge and do not charge you once you will get a job on their site. So, it would be absolute a FREE way to get babysitting job.

Now lets see the things you should take into account after accepting a babysitting job. These questions/things-to-note will help you to do your babysitting perfectly.

• Employers Address
• Is there parking facilities available to park your vehicle (in case if you have a vehicle to drive to work)
• What is the nearest train/tube station Or Bus-station (in case you use public transport)
• What are the landmarks to cross-over to reach the house?
• What is the working time?
• Is the employer fixed with time or flexible? (If the parent is coming directly from office to home – it may be a fixed time, but in case, if parent attend party and come, it may be delaying sometimes)
• What about child's personalities?
• Is there any special need required for any children?
• Does the child has behavior issues?

Now you have some ideas on how to market yourselves to get a babysitting job as well as what should you know after accepting a job offer in order to give your best as a babysitter. Good luck.

Source : http://karanjobyu.jimdo.com/2013/04/05/market-yourselves-to-get-babysitting-jobs/