Nannies and Working in Nanny Agency Recruitment
Have you ever thought about working in a nanny agency recruitment role?
Taking a recruitment role at a nanny agency can offer significant benefits to a nanny looking to pivot, grow, or diversify their career. Here’s a breakdown of the main advantages of working in a nanny agency recruitment role:
✅ Career Growth & Skill Development
Transferable Skills
Leverage soft skills like communication, empathy, time management, and conflict resolution in a professional office environment.
Gain new experience in hiring, interviewing, negotiation, and administration.
Professional Development
Develop skills in HR, recruitment, sales, marketing, and client relations.
Opportunity to transition into broader roles within recruitment, agency management, or even HR in other industries.
🧠 Industry Knowledge & Insight
Insider Perspective
Learn how agencies work behind the scenes: contracts, compliance, vetting, client acquisition, and business operations.
Understand what families and employers are really looking for, which is invaluable for future job searches or advising others.
💼 Stability & Work-Life Balance
More Predictable Hours
Recruitment roles usually offer standard office hours, which can be more consistent than childcare schedules (especially for live-in or on-call positions).
Less Physical Demands
A desk-based role is less physically taxing than childcare, which can be a welcome change over time.
🧩 New Purpose & Contribution
Mentorship Opportunity
Help guide and support other nannies by sharing your experience and setting them up for success.
Give back to the community by ensuring quality placements and advocating for fair treatment.
💸 Potential for Increased Earnings or Growth
Diversify your career to maximise your earnings
Changes such as working from home and flexible working practices have resulted in fewer full-time nannying roles, making it more challenging for nannies to have a full book of work.
A nanny agency recruitment that offers flexible hours can dovetail with a part-time role, allowing a nanny to benefit from a full-time salary.
Earning Potential
Depending on the agency, recruitment roles may offer performance-based bonuses or commissions, especially for successful placements.
Room to grow into senior or leadership roles (e.g., Head of Recruitment, Operations Manager).
🌱 Personal Fulfilment & Career Transition
Career Diversification
A recruitment role can be a stepping stone if you’re considering moving away from hands-on childcare into business, education, or even entrepreneurship.
Continued Involvement in Childcare
Stay connected to the childcare world you care about, but with a different (and sometimes less demanding) involvement.
A nanny moving into nanny agency recruitment can expect better work-life balance, new career skills, ongoing connection to the childcare field, and opportunities to grow professionally, all while using their unique experience to help others thrive.
Join our database of nannies open to working for an agency
If any of this floats your boat, please complete this online survey.
We’ll capture the details and what you’re looking for, and we’ll do our best to match you with a nanny agency recruitment role.
Onwards we grow!
Or you can click through directly to the survey here:
Nannies: Join our nannies-only Facebook groups
As roles come in, and there looks to be a good fit, we’ll let you know directly, but also share them with this nannies-only Facebook group:
Connecting nanny agencies with nannies
If you’re a nanny agency and you’re keen to connect with nannies who are open to working in nanny agency recruitment, please complete this initial briefing document to start the process:
