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Choosing an Au Pair: Application Videos as Tools to Help Matching

by cv harquail May 26, 2011

If a picture paints a thousand words, then what does an Au Pair’s application video do? Au Pair videos seem like a great way to get a sense of an au pair’s personality and command of English. Even though someone could script and then rehearse perfect grammar and expression, you’d still get o hear his [...]

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What is your family’s Au Pair Selection Process?: Interviews (polls)

by cv harquail May 15, 2011

Busy Mom has been very busy, thinking about how to make the Au Pair Selection Process better. She wrote a long guest post, complete with several suggested polls. Because her effort was so comprehensive, it was a bit much for one post and one conversation theme. So, I’ve broken it down (and added some things [...]

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Can an Au Pair Manage Distance-Education and Au Pairing? If yes, then how?

by cv harquail August 19, 2010

Here’s a request for advice from Sophia, a soon-to-be-au pair: Hi everyone!! I’ve been writing and reading this blog for a while, and I’m more than happy to say that I have finally taken the step and I’m formally applying with AuPairCare. I’m now filling my application, and I’ve found trouble with some point, the [...]

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Interviewing: What questions should Au Pairs ask Families?

by cv harquail August 18, 2010

Potential Au Pair Laura writes with a question about how to interview host families…. any ideas for her? Hi, I’m from England and I am in the process of applying to be an au pair in the USA. I have not yet spoken to any host families, but will be soon. Any tips on what [...]

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Finding Good Au Pair Candidates 3: Best Practices for the “Searching their whole data base” system

by cv harquail July 21, 2009

No! Not the needle in the haystack image! Okay, here’s something different. These girls are all delicious, all delightful, all of them clever smart and kind. But really, with all those cute photos and similar profiles, how do you find the one(s) who are right for you?

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Finding Good Au Pair Candidates 1: Best Practices for the “1 at a time” system

by cv harquail July 21, 2009

How do you manage the process of interviewing candidates one at a time? What can you do to make sure that the candidates you are sent are a pretty good match to begin with, so that you don’t have to weed out girls who surely wouldn’t fit with your family?

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Interviewing Au Pair Candidates: One at a time, or a few at once?

by cv harquail July 20, 2009

The process for interviewing, selecting, and matching with an au pair candidate differs for each agency. Some send you one candidate at a time, some select a handful of candidates for you to consider simultaneously, and others let you have pretty much free run of their data base. But, if you had a choice, would [...]

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How to choose between two good candidates? Offer your opinion…

by cv harquail April 24, 2009

When folks ask for advice about their au pair, don’t you just wish sometimes you could go back with them to the very beginning, back when they were deciding what kind of au pair to choose? And you could tell them just what you think they should do? It could be just like in a [...]

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Advice wanted: How to navigate the Au Pair rematch process?

by cv harquail December 12, 2008

Hey moms- We are in rematch and are having our Exit Interview this Saturday. Can anyone please share their experience and tell me what to expect? Our au pair has been with us for almost 4 months and we have struggled with this decision, but it is necessary to make it and move on. She [...]

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