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Quote: Dougal's Breakfast Flattery is no substitute for an adequate salary and appropriate working conditions. You're right. What boggles my mind is the fact that they interviewed "a very sweet candidate with work permit and experience who is happy with the salary"... they have never met me, I have yet to get a work permit and I don't have nanny-specific experience... why are they even still talking to me...

As it has been pointed out, here and in many other posts, contracts are quite different; as a rule of thumb, the notice period is reciprocal.

Quote: mirfield And today I talked to a friend who signed up for a 10 year contract last week with the company that cannot be named. If she'd have been able to read the warnings here then she might have been more careful. The cached version also appears to have gone from google so I can't retrieve it to see if she signed up to any of the "less good" schemes. If anyone has a copy of the long posts giving specific...

thank you! i am very thankful that i am 24 and i dont have any major expenses, if worse comes to worse ill head back to Canada, i am sure they can appreciate a mcgill grad there

Quote: Charlie R. Soles Why don't you try reading the contract ? I do not have a contract. I was asking hypothetically.

Sorry but I would rather not publish details like that on the internet. I am in the process of getting my qualifications recognized. This is kind of like a test.

Quote: dashak As I said, I am aware this is the rule for Au pairs . I am trying to find out if there are any such guidelines for Nannies . Thank you for trying to help though. Why do you think they are different ?

Quote: CorsebouTheReturn Always do a refresh/save or reupload the SAME CV, just so the status is more recent. This sounds like a good tip.

Just remember about another "classic"... Idiots recruiters (that's their official names ) are not being able to cope with more than 2 cvs a day, and 2 calls. Therefore, they usually don't bother with anything not recent on websites. So to make them less unhappy (and be contacted) you need to remember to REUPLOAD very often your CV onlines. For example, you have profile on Monster.ch, topjobs.ch, etc... whatever....

Quote: dashak You're right. What boggles my mind is the fact that they interviewed "a very sweet candidate with work permit and experience who is happy with the salary"... they have never met me, I have yet to get a work permit and I don't have nanny-specific experience... why are they even still talking to me then? At this point, I would have expected her to say good luck and goodbye to me. Did I understand...