Nanny publishing data

[Namechanegagain]

Hi

I have name changed for this.

I noticed today my nanny's puplic profile on a childcare website mentiones my 2DC by name and age, and also includes our family surname plus the area we live. Also referenced is the challenges she deals with in relation to them, to demonstrate her CV skills I guess. Is this usual? Am I right to feel uncomfortable and if so what is the right way to deal with it?

I would not like that at all! You are right to be concerned.

I would sit her down and talk about this. It's unprofessional for her to be giving out personal details about your family. I certainly wouldn't hire a nanny whom I saw doing this about her previous employer.

By the by - it seems that your nanny is looking for another job, how do you feel about that?

No. Names of children and family surname are not appropriate.

I would ask for identifying details to be removed.

she is breaching confidentiality by writing that

she could put that she looks after for example 2 children b5 and g 7mths and been there 3 years

def shouldnt have names of children or your surname - area as long as town and not road is ok and ages i wouldnt have a problem with

challenges as in what? behaviors/food issues etc

def talk to her, did you know she was looking for a job?leaving you?

Thank you for your responses. She was temporary and we only recently made her position permemant so I am hoping her profile was set up as she approached the end of her temporary position. But I need to check that as well. And yes, her comments related to behaviour and food issues. I will have a chat to her later and update.

Very inappropriate. Apart from anything else, she might want to consider that potential new employers may be put off by the amount of identifying information which she is apparently happy to share about her charges online. I know if I was looking for a nanny and saw that it would make me consider what information she might start spreading around in the public domain about my family.

It's very unprofessional to do this without seeking permission.

You should never use names on your CV let alone publish it online for all to see! (Also.. its extremely unprofessional to outline any difficulties!! The only time you might reference that is if specifically asked at interview stage if you are prepares to deal with xyz)

You need to talk to her asap. If you are happy with her otherwise them ask her to remove it and be crystal clear about her responsibility of confidentiality when working for you- but I would expect to be given a warning for this if I'd have made such an error!

Definitely not on to have any names on there, especially your surname. That's actually a really simple confidentiality thing that I'm amazed she didn't think about!

Is she specific about behaviours or just a generic "behavioural difficulties" (if your children do have behavioural difficulties that is!)

I'm always a bit baffled as to how accepting some people on here seem to be of nannies' unprofessional behaviour.

In any almost other job, if you published identifying and defamatory statements about your employers online, you'd be sacked! I'd be extremely uncomfortable keeping anyone on who did this I'm afraid.

I'd be surprised if she's even considered by anyone, once they see that she can't keep details confidential. Ask her to remove it immediately and tell her why.

I think all the CVs I received had the family surname and broad area (first couple of postcode digits). But none gave children's names or any behavioural issues that I can remember.

Light tripper, really?

What with this and the car seat thread, where on earth do you guys find your nannies!

Yup! Have to admit it didn't strike me as odd: it's just the name of their employer. A couple had celeb names on there so may have been name dropping but most didn't. Is it really so bad? How else do you distinguish between jobs on your CV? Do you just put "Nanny Job A", " Nanny Job B" and a year range for each? Just trying to imagine what it would look like, as I requested about a dozen CVs and pretty sure they all had surnames on!

These have all been CVs emailed to me in response to an ad by the way, not on a public website.

So for example my CV will list job like this:

March 2007 - November 2010

Sole charge role for a beautiful little girl ages 3, and her twin brothers aged 8. This role was full time and my responsibilities where to x y z. This position ended because the family relocated abroad.

And would be listed simarly for all jobs.

I have a list of references address and email/numbers that I keep separately and if the interviewing family wish to progress and offer me a job subject to reference checks they are given the list and free to contact any of the references which I link with the jobs listed on my CV. So if the new job is for twins they might only contact the previous twin families for example.

If it where high profile family I certainly not list names on my CV especially.

I would just adjust the bit about the job: This role was a sole charge position supporting a high profile family with children aged x and x..

Granted I've not seen many other nanny CVs but that's what is consider to be appropriate.

I know for a fact a nanny friend changed hers when a family who had no intention of hiring her, used her references listed to try and set up a business meeting with one of the high profile families aged previously worked for!

no names on my cv, just area and age of children and how long i have been there and reason i left

Hmmm, interesting.

Well, your way does sound good. All I can say is a lot of nannies do include parent surnames and personally that wouldn't worry me (though I wouldn't want it published on a website, but fine with it being used for targeted applications).

But as a parent anything identifying DD or any personal info about our family (particular problems/issues or job loss as a reason for leaving for example) would cross a line.

Just like my CV would include company names but no sensitive information about the company or its clients.

Oh my word- typos and grammar issues.

I was so tired- let it be known my CV isn't like that and I'm a better nanny than I am at proof reading!

I didn't even notice seafoam! Though maybe given the time I shouldn't be too surprised.

I put the family names, the age of the children and the town in my CV. I was said to do so by a nanny agency when I arrived in London.

Maybe I should just put the initial of the family name? (When next time I am looking for a job)

If I was viewing a CV, I would be happy to see something along the lines of "Family W, 2 boys aged 7 and 5, Wandsworth". I don't see why it is necessary to put the family surname or children's names on the CV, time enough to be handing over personal details if I want to take up references. Similarly I wouldn't be happy to see any more details than that about my family on a CV.