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Choose Your Au Pair

Go Au Pair provides services to help you choose the right Au Pair for your family; consistent, uniform prescreening of Au Pair applicants, useful tools and assistance to you during your search. Your role is to search and select the best Au Pair for your family.

We prescreen all Au Pair applicants

Go Au Pair performs the following prescreening so you don’t have to.

All of our available Au Pairs are:  

• 18 to 26 years old
• High School graduates (or equivalent)
• English speakers
• Prior child care providers
• Interviewed in English and in person by our International Representative

All of our available Au Pairs have:

• Successfully passed a criminal background check
• Successfully passed a psychometric test
• Completed a physical exam satisfactorily
• Received 32 hours of child care training including child development and safety
• Provided at least 2 child care references and at least 1 character reference
• Completed an application, written a “Dear Host Family” letter, provided a photo collage
• A personality profile containing character and child care related traits

Every applicant passes our uniform screening process. Therefore, when searching you can focus on the important characteristics that make each Au Pair a unique individual. Individual qualities you choose from include:

• Type of child care experience
• Ages of children cared for
• Number of children cared for at one time
• Years of child care experience
• Infant qualified and number of hours of infant experience
• English skill level
• Nationality
• Languages spoken
• Hobbies and Interests
• Personality type
• Reason for becoming an Au Pair
• Siblings and family
• Disciplinary methods and upbringing
• Religious affiliation
• Duration of driving experience
• Traffic and car size driving experience
• Plans and goals for the future
• Personal background
• And more!

We provide you with helpful tools

We provide you with useful tools to make it easy for you to search and select the right Au Pair for your family.

Host Family Portal - The Host Family Portal is your 24x7 resource to available Au Pairs and continues to provide you support during the experience. Access your portal and review potential applicants when it’s convenient for you.

Review a full Au Pair’s file including key characteristics and all supporting documents in one quick glance. Manage and organize your preferred applicants to quickly prioritize those who you want to pursue. Easily take the next steps in your evaluation process.

Search Au Pairs - Search Au Pairs enables you to easily sort through hundreds of available Au Pairs on various criteria and review basic information to quickly narrow down candidates in whom you are interested.

Placement Coordinator - Your Placement Coordinator is your personal dedicated resource from headquarters who assists you with your Au Pair search and continues to support you during your child care experience. Using your Host Family application, your Placement Coordinator saves you time by suggesting applicants who match your preferences.

Telephone Tips - We provide you with detailed telephone tips to best prepare you for your interview with your potential Au Pair. The telephone tips cover a range of topics and techniques and provide sample questions. Your phone interview is a critical part of the evaluation process and is required to extend an offer to an Au Pair.

Simultaneous Review Process - To instill confidence in your Au Pair choice, we allow families to review and interview multiple applicants simultaneously. You can review an applicant for any duration of time and can review as many applicants as you need. All Go Au Pair families have this option and Au Pairs may be evaluated by multiple families at once.

You choose your Au Pair

During step two of Au Pair care, you search and select the best Au Pair for your family. Using your Host Family portal and Search Au Pairs, you compare multiple, prescreened candidates focusing on their unique individual qualities. Using your portal and your Placement Coordinator’s support, you narrow down your search to an organized, managed list. Interview as many candidates as needed using our telephone tips to assist you in your evaluation of the applicant. Send your application, letter and written agreement to your desired Au Pair applicant allowing your potential Au Pair to review the information about you, your family and your child care expectations.

Only you can choose the right Au Pair for your family. Extend an offer to your desired applicant with confidence and rely on our Mutual Match process to confirm your choice. Over 20 years of experience has taught us that Au Pair child care is best when the Au Pair willingly accepts a family’s offer. Mutual Match gives your Au Pair a choice. Your Au Pair must also choose you!

We manage the logistics

Once the match is complete, we issue the paperwork your Au Pair needs to apply for the Au Pair J-1 Visa. Your Au Pair interviews with a consulate at the U.S. Embassy in their home country. The consulate makes the final decision to approve or deny the Au Pair’s visa and our International Representatives coach and prepare Au Pairs to give them the best possible chance for approval.

Go Au Pair handles all of the pre-arrival details for you and your Au Pair such as flights and health insurance. Our Travel Coordinator works individually with you to schedule your Au Pair’s flight to make it as accommodating as possible. We fly your Au Pair individually and directly to your home, making our Au Pair arrivals the most flexible in the industry.

All Au Pairs with Go Au Pair receive the required 32 hours of child care training in their home country. Because our Au Pairs are trained before arriving to the U.S., we can fly them directly to your home. We do offer an optional New York Introductory Workshop as a supplement. The workshop focuses on cultural aspects of American life and Au Pairs who attend are CPR and First Aid certified.

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