Professional Support for Au pair Matching
Written by mv Wednesday, 17 February 2010 16:40
Marie, a lead community counselor with 15 years of experience is offering active support during the au pair matching process and beyond.
Host parents can benefit from her expertise, gained by working over a decade as a lead community counselor (LCC), with an above average success ratio.
Her active involvement in the selection and matching process will greatly increase your likelihood of finding the right au pair, a good fit for your family.
Marie offers
- Help with pre-selecting the best candidates from the pool of au pair applicants that your Au pair agency makes available to you.
- Screening for and identifying red flags in au pair applications, taking your family’s specific situation and needs into account.
- Conduct phone interviews with the family’s favorite pre-selected au pairs candidates. Setting expectations with au pair.
- Tips concerning the important questions that need to be asked, which areas need to be covered. A list of phone interview questions for your own phone interviews.
- Advice for interview questions of her babysitting references. Calling and asking pertinent questions of her babysitter references, assessing au pairs personality.
- Post-matching support for setting up the weekly schedule and rules. Help you to get ready for your au pair. Advice for conducting effective communication with au pair prior to arrival.
- Support for ironing out those little misunderstandings that often happen during the first 2 months, mostly due to language barriers.
- Ongoing support during the program year, by giving advice if an issue should come up.
Just like a marriage, an au pair match does take some work here and there, it is common during the initial two months ‘honeymoon’ phase for small issues to come up. Effective communication is essential. Marie will be by your side with advice and support.
Our focus is to help facilitate communication between both parties, resulting in strong host parents / au pair relationships.
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