Attracting the Right Candidate for Your Daycare Position

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Once you’ve decided all the various qualifications that you’d like your dream help to possess and a remuneration package to justify your requirements, you’ll need to decide how you intend to hire. It is pointless to have the right job with the right package if the right candidate doesn’t know about it.

There are 2 methods in which you’ll be able to spread the word on your job position; either internally or externally.

Naturally with internal sources, you will be saving on time and money advertising for the position.

• You can consider promoting from within your daycare centre such as promoting the teacher’s assistant to replace a teacher who’s leaving. This is always the best option as you should be giving your existing staff a chance to develop before seeking external candidates. It also helps to motivate and boost the morale of your other staff as it shows your appreciation for your staffs’ hard work.

• If you have more than one outlet, you can consider transferring your staff from another outlet.

• You can also consider re-hiring other staff who have left. The advantage is the staff would already be familiar with your system and you are aware of the staff’s capability and character. The learning curve will be a lot less steep.

• If you have previously advertised for the position, you can re-look at the resumes again to reassess if you can obtain a suitable candidate from the pool. A good tip will be to speak to your second choice candidate in the previous recruitment exercise.

If you’ve exhausted all your internal sources, you will then need to look at external methods of hiring.

• You can consider participating at job fairs. This option might not be suitable if you are not looking to hire a large number of staff.

• You can next take up an advertisement. There are a number of publications that you can consider. The first is of course the classified page in your local newspaper. You can also consider alternative avenues such as trade publications such as childcare providers magazines.

• Other than printed advertisements, you can consider electronic versions as well. There are many online job portals for you to place your posting. You can also consider daycare providers’ forum pages or portals as well.

• You can spread the word around and have friends and families recommend potential candidates to you. You can also post the advertisement in your daycare centre’s notice board and let the parents keep a lookout for you as well.

• You can hire employment agencies or headhunters to locate potential candidates for you based on your job requirements. They will usually charge you based on one or two months of the salary that is offered to the candidate.

• You can also speak with schools offering diplomas and certificates in early childhood and see if they have candidates to recommend.

• You can also put up notices or banner advertising the position and inviting candidates to walk-in for an interview.

Recruitment need not be an expensive exercise. You can opt for cheaper alternatives but that could mean that you will need a longer leadtime. If you are really in a hurry to replace the vacant position, then external means such as employment agencies and advertisements is probably the quickest.

Good luck!

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As I write this, I am sitting alone in my house for the first time in eighteen months. I am totally and completely alone, bar the cat. It is quiet, just the sound of birds outside, even the usual drone and thud of construction work in neighbouring fields has halted in honour of the occasion. I can do whatever I want: drink tea which is still hot, read a book and fall asleep with it on my face, leave the house with just my keys and mobile. And what do I actually want to do? Well, other than compulsively tidy the kitchen and my sock draw, I want to bite my nails and fidget and maybe, just maybe, make one tiny call to the childminder, just to make sure that her phone is working and that Squidget isn’t too distraught without me.

Yes, dear reader, I have finally done it. Little Squidget has gone off to her childminders, alias Wonderwoman and Superman, for the morning, for the first time, and I am feeling bereft, like I have sent her away to borstal. Wonderwoman and Superman are the most capable, wonderful people I know, having looked after Goldilocks when I returned to my former life of Career Woman following her birth, some three years ago, so my feelings of dread, guilt and sheer loss are at once rendered ridiculous. But I still feel loss, like part of my body has weirdly evolved and fallen off.

It has been a long road to today, a road pitted with emotional minefields and practical nightmarishness. Who would have imagined that organising enough time to sit and stare gormlessly out of the window could be so complicated? When I gave birth to the Tweenager, I was in my second year at university. I was 22, had just moved to the UK, got married and moved house. My life fell apart when she was born and daycare was the best option. Even as a tiny baby, she was very stoic about the whole thing, bravely heading off to nursery and then school with a rucksack the same size as her on her back, blinking back the tears as she bravely waved goodbye. I never got over the guilt that crippled me every time I left her and went to my lectures. Staying at home was never an option I considered – I was grateful to get through the day without having a tantrum of my own. By the time Goldilocks was born, I was in Cyprus, running a successful business, stronger, healthier, happier, but I had gained that enemy of kids the world over: a Career. I swore I would do better by my second daughter and delegated frantically. Unfortunately, my maternity cover proved to be barking mad and so I returned to work (not altogether unwillingly), baby on hip and often on breast (much to the combined curiosity/shock of anyone within burping distance). A year later, Wonderwoman and Superman entered our lives and Goldilocks found her happy ever after with them for the next two years. The fact that she was and is never fazed by anything, giving any poor soul looking after her a real run for their money, helped assuage any feelings of guilt I might have been harbouring.

Fast forward to today. Before gathering the resolve to ask Wonderwoman and Superman to help out with Squidget (it took me two months to make the call), I read every darn article discussing the pros and cons of early childcare, about separation anxiety and how to handle it. There is a massive amount of information out there on how and why to leave your child but precious little discussion of the emotional impact separation has on the frazzled parent left holding an empty packet of wet wipes. I have always been oddly clingy with all my kids. I’m known for it: well-meaning friends and not-so-friendly others have often joked that I am too attached to them. I couldn’t bear the thought of letting them go, a genuine problem not helped by the fact that it seems to be a medical condition peculiar to Turkish Cypriots to squeeze, stroke and physically grab your baby out of your arms at any given opportunity. If I let them go, what would I do with myself? Knit? Become an estate agent? So I became a Stay At Home Mum extraordinaire. With no life. Enter Wonderwoman and Superman, who I can hear coming up the driveway now. Squidget is smiling in the back seat and all is good with the world. I think I might be able to get used to this.

Nikki is a freelance writer whose work is regularly commissioned by and published in a variety of international magazines and newspapers. As a mother of three young daughters, her writing often focuses on parenting and lifestyle issues but, secretly, Nikki also has a 'proper' job, as an expert writer on overseas real estate investment. She acts as a consultant to agents and developers, identifying and marketing key emerging markets. She is currently collaborating with Property Club International. See more at http://propertyclubinternational.net

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Daycare is the process where you drop your child off with a provider. Daycare is a great way for your little one to acquire some socialization skills if you’re in a situation where there aren’t other kids around. I suggest you check your state and local regulations before enrolling your child in a center or home daycare.

The geographic limitations, and the diversity in type of daycare providers, make child daycare a highly fragmented industry. This leads to frustration for parents who are attempting to find quality child daycare, with 87% of them describing the traditional search for child daycare as "difficult and frustrating".

There are often local industry associations that lobby governments on childcare policy, promote the industry to the public or help parents choose the right daycare provider. In some cases, good daycare can provide different experiences than parental care does, especially when children reach two and are ready to interact with other children. As a matter of social policy, consistent, good daycare, may ensure adequate early childhood education for children of less skilled parents.

Childcare

The vast majority of childcare is still performed by the parents, in house nanny or through informal arrangements with relatives, neighbors or friends. For example, in Canada, among two parent families with at least one working parent, 62% of parents handle the childcare themselves, 32% have other in-home care (nannies, relatives, neighbors or friends) and only 6.5% use a formal day care center. Some home day cares operate illegally with respect to tax legislation where the care provider does not report fees as income and the parent does not receive a receipt to qualify for childcare tax deductions.

Under the current law, educators and childcare workers at daycare centers, schools, and other organizations need to have their backgrounds checked. According to provinces and cities some shortages of subsidized openings can lengthen the time needed to find a suitable childcare provider.

Almost all areas of the country reported a rise in the costs parents have to pay for all forms of childcare, when they can find it. Continuing high costs of childcare highlight the need to subsidize services more effectively. The government needs to support affordable quality childcare which is provided locally through the voluntary, public and independent sectors, and meets the requirements of parents.

Business

Don't be mislead in thinking that operating a day care business means working 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You can run a profitable home daycare business from your home and avoid paying high costs to rent a large space. If you're tired of leaving your child in the care of someone else, but need the money to help meet your financial obligations, running a home daycare business is the solution you've been waiting for.

A home daycare is one of the easiest, cheapest and fastest home businesses to start. Many experts expect the demand to increase through the next dozen years, and the popularity of this type of business to continue growing from there. Be sure to know the regulations in your area, and then design your business plan to meet these regulations. There are software tools to assist you in running a smooth daycare operation.

Whether you run a home daycare or a daycare center, a good daycare software will:

Organize your child care business making it run more smoothly and trouble-free

save you time by automating time-consuming administrative tasks such as attendance tracking and billing

save you money by reducing administrative costs

reduce stress with automatically generated schedules

event reminders make you money by allowing you to focus on growing your business while helping you avoid legal and tax problems

Finally, if you have employees, the software with automatically keep track of their hours and pay.

Placing your child in a daycare can be a stressful decision for any parent as in most cases they're literally giving all their trust to a stranger to look after their child. Check with local governments to ensure the daycare facility is known as having a good track record with few complaints. The daycare industry is vast and can be profitable if you are frugal and decide to operate the business from home.

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Starting a daycare is not an easy decision. But, for many women around the world, it has proved to be the right one. Women are turning their once small daycare centers into successful businesses which earn them a great income. Many women have quit their jobs and are now financially independent. These women have more time to spend with their family and to do the things they love.

Once you have an initial number of kids in your daycare, it is time to ensure that they and, more importantly, their parents, are happy that they've chosen your daycare center. Remember the following sentence, because following it basically ensures a successful and growing daycare center business: "Happy children make for happy parents who in turn bring you more customers and more money."

You need to woo the parents who entrusted you with their children. There's no other way to put it. You can do so by appealing to the children. You should of course keep the children happy and safe all year around. That's the basic rule of running a day care. But you can also put in a little more effort on special occasions and get a lot more in return.

Don't know when and how? Here are a few suggestions:

1. Birthdays - you should make each child's birthday a special occasion. Either buy a cake or bake one yourself. Make a day of it, or at least an hour or so at the end of the day. Make sure to invite the child's parents to attend the party about 2 weeks in advance. They will be pleasantly surprised. Make them a part of the celebration. It will connect them more firmly to you and to your daycare.

2. Holidays - each holiday should be preceded by a special day at your daycare. For halloween, you can throw a preliminary costume party for the kids. Again, invite the parents. Make sure they know what you're doing. They'll be impressed with your energy and creativity.

3. Arrange a daycare play in which the kids act. Make sure that each kid gets about the same number of lines so that no parent will feel as if his/her kid got the short end of the stick. The children's families will be the audience.

You can come up with more ideas, I'm sure. Any event that brings the parents to your daycare center in a positive atmosphere, makes them more loyal customers who will recommend your daycare to more people. You will get more customers and make more money. All these events shouldn't cost much and can be a lot of fun to produce.

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Lucy Doyle runs a home business and is an expert on starting and operating successful daycare centers.

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