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Support Group - New and Expectant Parents SFPOM New Parents - general
discussion 2/1/2012 10:17 am - 2/4/2012

1. Comment: care.com ? (molly397)
Topic: care.com ?

 Is anyone using care.com? is it worth it?
 
 interested in feedback/reviews.
 
 thanks,
 Anne

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 1. molly397 says...
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 2/3/2012 1:43 pm
 
 I recently hired a nanny from a job posting on
 Care.com. It was well-worth whatever they charged for
 their service. (which I think is about $50?)They have a
 good intuitive online interface. You post your job and
 then you get messages everytime a caregiver applies for
 the job. You can see their profile and their message
 directly to you. You get to email back and forth with
 care givers and see their profile without having to
 distribute your personal email/phone number until you
 want to dislose that. You can see references and
 background checks, when those are available from the
 candidate. You can organize your search and "say no
 thanks" to caregivers. We posted our job opportunity
 in early December. We got about 15 responses. We had a
 few flaky respondents and we had 2 that didn't read our
 salary information... and we weren't totally on it. So
 we reposted the job opportunity with a more descriptive
 subject line -- and we got 25 respondents. We hired
 one of them and she has started. I think Care.com was a
 fairly easy way to accomplish this stressful life task.
 There was a moment before I reposted where I seriously
 thought about posting the job on Craigslist -- and I am
 so thankful that I didn't do that!!! I found the
 candidates to all be seriously looking for a job.... 
 The challenge for me was that some were 19 and lived in
 San Francisco (with no work history) and some were 50
 and had been a nanny for 20 years and live in
 Concord... So we ended up hiring someone in between
 -- not too young, not too experienced, local, and
 loving -- she is a Phd student and wanted a solid
 long-term, part time gig - and that worked for us. We
 are paying $20/hour 'over the table' for 5 month old
 twins to be cared for 20 hours a week. We had
 applicants that would have taken less money (as low as
 $15/hour) and were young and less experienced. We had
 applicants who were more interested in $22-$25 'under
 the table'. These folks usually had a lot of nanny and
 twin experience. From my side, the care.com experience
 was very good. I really am not sure why anyone would
 not use them!
 Email author: molly at tirpak.com
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