OMG I have had 80 replies in 48hrs to a nanny ad, how do I begin to sift through them?

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This is completely mad. It is for a temp nanny job to cover my nanny's honeymoon. I have emails from over 80 people. I'd say on a first read through probably 60 of them would be absolutely fine, probably 10 would be great, probably 1 or 2 are super fantastic lovely perfect Mary Poppins types.
But I don't need superfantastic, I just need someone nice to have around and competant and fun and trustworthy for a couple of weeks. She won't even be in sole charge. How do I START to sift through them?

Could you not get someone from a nanny agency in Greece?

eg someone like this who is avail from July and may not be going to a job immediately

Now there's an idea Uwila In fact, sometimes I think me and you could set up our own Agency.

Right, I've chosen two random aussie primary school teachers, spoken to them both, they both sound COMPLETELY identical, identical experience, enthusiastic, nice, fun, fantastic.
I'm going to meet both of them, I'm sure both will be lovely, god knows how I'm going to choose between them. Maybe see which one has the nicest shoes . I can tell already that it will be difficult telling whichever one isn't successful that they haven't got the job.

Well I'd certainly post on gumtree again!

oh mrsrecycle, I've jus tseen your post. thanks - but I just don't think I can cope with any more candidates! Aurgh

Oh that's a shame - I've just mentioned it to her and she's was really interested. If ever you need someone again let me know. She would be perfect and you wouldn't have to sift through all the applicants.

lucky all these slovakians who won't get a job with you!! it's incredible how you talk about them. since when do you pay people working for you according to what their living costs are? you should pay them what they are worth to you regardless of where they come from. the fact that a certain amount of money means more to a slovakian then to an australian is none of your business!! plus don't know why a slovakina would have to go by train to greece, it's certainly not a short pleasant journey. i am glad there is at least one person in this discussion who stood up for them!

bugger off back to your kibbutz catepillar (or however you choose to spell it)

Shocked! Catepilarr is absolutely right!

Yep. Agree with catepilarr. Can't quite believe what I'm reading on this thread. Think I come from a different world.