What You'll Know About a Candidate Before You Meet Them

By the time you sit down with someone, the work of vetting and matching is already done. Here is what you will have in hand.

A good search spares you the labor of sorting through strangers. By the time we present a candidate to you, a great deal of work, screening, interviewing, matching, has already happened, and you receive a considered picture of each person rather than a bare name. Knowing what you will have in front of you, and how the introductions then unfold, helps you understand how the process actually works from a family's side.

Before you meet anyone, you receive a detailed candidate profile. This typically includes the professional's relevant experience and work history, their qualifications, education, and any specialized skills or training, their languages, and the particulars that matter for your role, whether they drive, their availability, their references' general substance, and the results of our background screening. In short, you are given the substance of who this person is and what they have done, drawn from verified information rather than self-report alone, so that you can form a real impression before investing your time.

Crucially, the candidates you see have already been vetted and matched. We do not forward you everyone who is available; we present a short slate of people who genuinely fit your brief and who have cleared our screening, interviews, and standards. Our placement counselors have already done the narrowing, weighing not just qualifications but temperament and fit against what your household needs. So the question by the time a profile reaches you is no longer "is this person qualified and safe," but simply "is this the right fit for us."

When you are ready to meet candidates, introductions usually begin with an interview, and these are arranged to suit you. Often the first conversation is by phone or video, which is efficient and lets both sides get a feel for one another before arranging anything further, particularly useful when a candidate is relocating or you are hiring from afar. Promising candidates then typically move to an in-person meeting, and frequently to a paid working interview, where you see how they actually engage with your children or your household. Your counselor coordinates all of this and stays alongside you through it.

Throughout, remember that the introduction is a two-way conversation. You are evaluating the candidate, and the candidate is evaluating the role and your family; the best matches are mutual. Because you arrive at the interview already confident in the person's background and broad fit, you are free to spend the conversation on what actually matters: the chemistry, the rapport, and the sense of whether this is someone you want in your home.

That is the advantage of a real search. You meet a small number of well-matched, fully vetted people, with the substance of each already in hand, and you spend your judgment only on the question that truly requires it. This is the care Nannies + more…® is built to provide.