Hi everyone! Laura from Nanny Parent Connection back with my next video.
I receive questions from nannies and parents all the time so I thought I would bring some of these questions directly to you! I’m hoping my answers can help other nannies and families as well.
Today, let’s address a question I hear weekly:
“I am interested in working as a nanny but don’t have any actual “nanny experience”. Is there any way around this?”
Check out my video where we discuss this topic and I hope you find it useful!
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A transcript of the video can be found below:
Hi everyone, Laura from Nanny Parent Connection back with this week’s video.
I receive questions from nannies and parents daily, so I thought I would bring some of these questions to a wider audience.
Today, let’s discuss a question I hear weekly from nannies. I’m hoping that this video can help other nannies as well. After I read the question, I will walk you through the answer:
“I am interested in working as a nanny. I don’t have experience working with children, but I do have three children of my own. I graduated with an AA in early childhood education, and I’m working on my bachelor’s currently. I was wondering if there’s any way around the lack of experience.”
The short answer to this is yes, there is a way around this.
Here are my tips to navigate transitioning into nannying with this type of background.
#1: Make sure you have a resume
Having a resume will not only show that you’re serious about transitioning into nannying, but it is also a great way to showcase your skill sets, your relevant experience, and any certifications that you may have.
If you’re not sure what to include on your nanny resume or how to organize that, make sure you stay tuned until the end of the video.
#2: Put together a cover letter
A cover letter is a fantastic way to speak more about your relevant experience and your background, as well as what you might bring to the table as a nanny for a family.
Make sure you send along your cover letter anytime you send your resume when applying for a position.
Your cover letter can be a template, but I do recommend taking a few moments to customize it with a specific name of the person, if you know the name, for the position you’re applying for, or perhaps details about the position, such as the number or ages of children.
Customizing your cover letter only takes a few moments, and it’s a great way, again, to convey that you are serious about your job search and that you have good attention to detail.
You will also want to make sure you frame out your relevant experience with childcare.
If your relevant experience comes from being a mother, you could say something like “loving, hands-on mother to three children, ages 4 through 10,” for example.
Or if you are a stay-at-home mom to your children, make sure you mention that as well.
#3: Discuss your care philosophy
This could be a specific philosophy such as gentle parenting or love and logic, or it could be as simple as putting your own beliefs into your own words.
You will want to highlight relevant experiences from other work positions that you have held: attention to detail, coming up with novel solutions for problems, effective communication, working together as part of a team to achieve common goals, or being flexible to handle evolving needs.
#4: Showcase how you will utilize your background in early childhood education within the nanny role
This could mean showcasing specific certifications, such as safe sleep or child development.
Make sure to give examples about how you would use that background to meet a child’s social, emotional, and developmental needs.
You could also give examples of activities you would do to support these developmental needs, such as fine and gross motor skill development, daily reading and music exposure, narrating the day, sensory play, etc.
Alright, those are my tips for how to navigate transitioning into nannying with a perceived lack of experience, and I hope that as I walk you through this, you’ll realize that what this particular person was describing was really not a lack of experience, but just a question about how do I apply my relevant experience succinctly into perhaps a resume or perhaps when conveying the experience to a family.
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