As with any job, the key for a successful interview is preparation. Here are some helpful hints and tips from Tinies to help you prepare.

However, the most important thing is to try and relax and be yourself.

How should I prepare and how should I dress?

• Plan your route. It is important to plan for the interview and to ensure that as part of the planning that you know exactly where you are going. Always obtain clear instructions regarding the location of the house, with the exact address and telephone number of the family you are visiting. Make sure you have a map or A-Z with you, and plan your route before you leave as it is difficult to find a house name or number in the dark. If you become lost or delayed, ring to let the family know. Our advice is to arrive 10 mins early for your interview.
   
• Detail of the job. Make sure you know from Tinies the exact details of the position and the name of the children.
   
• Smart appearance. Your appearance should be clean, smart and tidy. If you wear piercings or jewellery, we advise that you keep these to a minimum. If you know you are going to be playing with the children, then be sure that you are dressed comfortably.

What should I take with me?

• Contact details. Take the details of the family, and a map or A-Z of the area so you can find the address.
   
• Documents. Have all your relevant documents with you, in a smart folder or file. The parents will have received your CV that Tinies have prepared. If you have a portfolio of your own documents, we would advise that you take it along with your certificates, written references etc.

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Be Polite and Make a Good Impression
When the time comes for an interview, you must be polite! It makes a very bad impression to not use manners at a job interview. Why would someone who is looking for assistance in raising a child hire a person who has poor manners? It is important to be polite and make a good first impression!

One way to be polite is to be prompt. It isn't respectful to show up to an interview late, so be on time or even early! You should be dressed professionally and neatly. Make sure your clothes are ironed and that they are appropriate for an interview as a nanny. You don't want to wear anything too suggestive and you want to make sure your clothes are kid-friendly. If there are children present at your interview, interact with them- don't hesitate to do so. A parent will appreciate that you took the time to interact with their child. You should also remember to have a smile on your face and to make eye contact, shake hands and thank the person for the opportunity to interview. Try not to use words like, "uh, umm, like, " and speak clearly and succinctly.

Making a good first impression is key!

Check Those References
If you are interviewing for a nanny job it isn't unreasonable to ask the family you are interviewing with for references. You should readily supply your references for a family to check out and a family should do the same for you. If you are offered a nanny position with a family, before you accept you should check the family's references. If the family has had previous nannies, ask for their names and numbers so you can check to see what working for the family was like, how the kids were and why that person left the nanny position. If the family has never had a nanny before, you can ask for numbers for past child care providers, such as daycare centers or babysitters. If none of those exist, don't be shy to ask for personal references for the family. It is important to know the family's history if you are going to be living and working closely with them on a day-to-day basis. You can ask for this list of references at your nanny interview or wait until the job is offered to you. The important part to remember is that you should check references before accepting any position offered.

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Choosing nanny career is a wonderful thing to be, as always we can stick with children and have a real fun environment. Apart from that, having comparability between nanny and family is very important to deliver good services as well as to gain trust on nanny. The compatibility issues should be identified during early interview stage and those should be fixed as soon as possible either by nanny or parent in order to make a peaceful environment for children. Both parties should talk the things very clearly before take any decisions. What are other things that a nanny should take into account when applying for a nanny job or getting recruited  as a nanny, let's discuss.

There are huge number of ways to get nanny jobs these days with the help of internet, you will be able to find lots of nanny services that post advertisements for nanny jobs and nannies can simply register with such websites for free and apply for the jobs. Other than this, still nannies can find job via newspaper, magazine advertisements, local forum posts or word of mouth and etc. Other than the opportunity to get nanny job, there are various sources available online to learn about nanny services, career on child care. There are many nannies who usually used to their own experiences as blogs or online diaries. There are many online forums where experienced nannies can give advices on developing a career in child care. As well as nanny online services too may give great number of articles on how to find nanny job, how to apply for a nanny job and so on. By reading all those things one can get great understanding about being a successful nanny.

When a nanny wanted advertisement is posted on online nanny services or on any other media, a nanny should look more attention to its detail part as well as the location. It is important to see, did the parent use any “must do”, “should do” things. Also, have to note how the wording is going on in the advertisement, does that make you to be comfortable?, are there basic details of kids (like age, some special behavior)  who have to be taken care provided?, what is the size of the family and etc. Some ads clearly state the duties of nannies, some do not. As it is the case, you can contact the parent via messaging on the site or email or telephone whichever is available, and get more information about the job, specially more about child as well as the duties that should do.

After getting details of the job and if you are happy to serve that family, you may be asked to attend an interview with parent(s). Usually parent(s) sit with kid(s) and observe how do you behave with kid and how kids react to you, as well as parents expect very very soft dealing with kid – so, your way of behaving at the interview is the must and you should make sure you will treat the child like a child and be a temporary mom for those kids and take care of them. If you Google, you can find a lots of interview tips to be followed.

Good luck with your nanny career.

    Being a babysitter can be very fun as well as being very lucrative. It can even create a regular income, which can be quite helpful with the economy these days. It can be a career as there are many nannies that work for the same families for tens of years. If the nanny does a good job, if she is trustworthy and loves the kids, they will keep asking her for more of her time. Babysitting jobs can be found easy in busy Australian cities such as Brisbane. This is because if the city is populated and busy, then there will be parents with kids who need to be taken care of and this is when the babysitter’s role comes into play.

In order to hired for babysitting jobs, you will have to follow these few tips. The first tip is to carefully follow the instructions that are laid out by the family. These instructions are your job duties. These instructions will include the house rules and the rules regarding the children. Understand them well and ask any questions that you may have during the interview so you can implement them to the fullest.

The second tip is to be reliable. You have to be someone that the parents can depend on. This means that you will have to be there in time and you have to be available on short notice whenever they need you. This way, they will always choose you as their babysitter, which means that you will be able to earn more money. The last tip that will help you get some of the best nanny jobs is to be very friendly with the parents. You will have to treat them as friends instead of employers and they will start considering you a friend as well.

Click here to apply for babysitting jobs or nanny jobs openings in Brisbane city.

If you are looking for a job but you can’t find any because of the messed up state of the economy, then you should seek a career as a babysitter. This is not a joke, babysitting can be quite fun and easy as well as being rewarding if you love kids and know how to handle and interact with them. Despite the economy, babysitting is the one job that is not affected. This is because regardless of the economy, people will still have children and they will need babysitters to take care of them. Of course, the pay maybe less but it is better than not having any job at all. If you want to know how to find babysitting jobs in Brisbane (or the city you live in), keep reading as this is the topic of this article.You should target busy cities, for example, Brisbane. Brisbane is one of the most populated cities in Australia so there is a big chance that you will find plenty of nanny jobs there. This is because a busy city means a lot of people and a lot of people means a lot of nanny job opportunities. So after you settle in, you should target married couples who are very busy with their jobs because they will most likely be looking for a babysitter.

As for the pay, it depends on the location and how desperate the parents are. You can earn from 12 dollars per hour up to 30 dollars per hour from babysitting jobs Brisbane. In order to get an increase in pay, you should be friendly with the parents and take good care of their children. If you do that, they will ask you for more of your time, which means more money for you. All of this will help you land the nanny jobs Brisbane has to offer.

Some opened nanny jobs in Brisbane city :

•     Looking after 3 children 8,7 and 3 year olds. Older 2 go to school and younger goes to kindy 5 days - Apply here
•     Loving family looking for afterschool support/care of their 3 children - Apply here
•     Nanny services required for after school care. Pick up and dinner, bath and exercise 3 year old - Apply here

JULIE is happy to have us in her home in Blackburn. She has no problem with being interviewed, or allowing her twin daughters Olivia and Rose to be observed and photographed as they paint with their nanny. But there is one thing she is adamant about. Even though her surname is different to that of her husband and daughters, she does not want it published.

''It's a perception thing,'' she says. ''People think that only posh people have nannies.''

Sitting cross-legged on the floor with the girls, nanny Tracey McDermott nods in agreement. ''There's a big misconception that we are just housekeepers, or that we are raising children for the wealthy.''

As professional musicians and music teachers, Julie and her husband do not meet anyone's definition of wealthy. ''We go without a lot to be able to afford Tracey,'' she says.
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Ms McDermott, who at 38 has been nannying for 10 years, works two days a week for the family, generally starting at 9am and working until as late as 10.30pm on evenings when the couple has orchestra rehearsals. On average the family pays her $500 for the two days, income she declares to the tax office. She charges $25 an hour by day and up to $32 for overnight work with newborns.

''There's not many jobs where you arrive to be greeted by hugs and kisses and screams of delight. That doesn't happen when you work in an office,'' she says.

Ms McDermott trained as a childcare worker and gained further experience when she was living in England several years ago.

She is devoted to three-year-olds Olivia and Rose, and from the moment she arrives her attention is entirely focused on the girls' needs.

She affectionately strokes and reassures them, sits close as they paint and glue, plays games and dress-ups with them, and reads to them. Television?

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The bad economical situation is affecting countries all over the world and this includes Australia. With such a bad economy, the number of job opportunities will be less. This does not include babysitting. The reason behind that is that people will always have babies and these babies will need to be taken care of, which is the role of babysitters. Brisbane is the most populous city in Queensland, the Australian state, it is also the capital. This is why it is the home of many babysitting jobs for aspiring nannies and babysitters who are looking for a way around the bad economical situation.

Working as a nanny resembles any other job, this is why you will have to work on creating your C.V. This C.V will include any prior work as a babysitter as well as the courses or the skills that you have acquired. For example, if you know how to perform CPR on kids, it is important to write that down. This will help parents feel safer leaving their child with a nanny that can do CPR. This is why it will help you find nanny jobs.

It is also important to know how to go through an interview. This is because if you want to work as a professional nanny, you will have to go through many interviews with the children parents. These parents will be concerned with the safety of their children so they will have to scrutinize you because you will be in charge of their kid. Therefore, you have to know how to handle these interviews and how to answer the questions in a way to ensure the parents of the children while they are interviewing you for babysitting jobs.  There are courses that can help you with this; they will teach you how to talk and what to say during an interview.

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