Nanny&Me

If you're heading up the process of finding a nanny yourself (ie. sans agency), then here's a quick tip: make sure you keep on top of every step of the process to keep things moving efficiently. My PD7A came in the mail quite some time ago and I sent it in immediately to the Canada Job Bank to validate my account and get my job ad processed. Well today I noticed that the job still wasn't posted, so I decided to call the good folks at the Canada Job Bank. Turns out they had made an error and only ran the job posting for one day almost a week ago. Now I'm not criticizing the job bank because everyone makes mistakes (and they were so friendly and apologetic), but it just goes to show that you need to do your due diligence and call the appropriate people every step of the way. It's a good thing I called because they were able to get the job posting duplicated and posted within a few hours, but to think we wasted a whole week just assuming that everything was moving along as it should and if I hadn't called then the error wouldn't have been picked up at all, so pick up that phone and make it happen!...and always remember that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. ;-)

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Process Overview
Step 2: Writing a Job Posting
Step 3: Filing with the Job Bank