As if this finding-childcare business wasn't actually stressful and time consuming enough when you go through profiles when people add you as a favouriate and carefully eliminate people with too little experience blah, blah, blah (and I wish you could filter by age because a 16 year old patently doesn't have 5 years experience) or you look for qualifications, why do people have to lie? The good ones tell you what experience and qualifications they have in their little blurb but sometimes they don't so I've pursued this and asked for CVs from a couple of candidates who've contacted me without that info. I'm not expecting the moon btw, I'd just prefer someone with experience than without.
Half the time it's turned out that they just didn't read my ad properly and ticked all the boxes on the profile and at least the timewasters who send me helpful but truthful CVs are easily eliminated but I've just had one really shocking experience, with someone I thought was a great candidate - CV looked good, said all the right things in response to my e-mail questions, we had a promising phone conversation - and it all turns out to be completely fake right down to her CACHE PIN number!
I know I'm probably overly cautious but I checked her certificate number with CACHE, no trace, so I asked them to check her name, no trace. I called the college she supposedly obtained it at and she was a registered student there at the start of the dates she gave at least, so I asssume she dropped out. I checked the nursery where she said she'd worked (she'd given the address and had been gone 3 years so fair game IMO - don't disclose info you don't want people using) and nursery say they've never heard of her. I asked her for 2 childcare related referees and she gave me 2 families, 1 she's babysat for 3 times although they said lovely things about her, and a summer job. Nothing from the family she supposedly worked for over the last 2 years until they moved away. I'm left wondering what she's actually been doing!
Now I appreciate that it's difficult to keep in touch with families because they move and the nursery where I did my student placement years ago has closed down but her entire CV seems to be a work of fiction 
And the disappointing thing is that if she hadn't lied I might have considered her just on the grounds of the experience she did have of babysitting and her general attitude :(