Frequently Asked Questions

We recommend that you meet with babysitters you are considering before hiring one. The CareFinder team puts a lot of effort into screening every sitter on the platform, but hiring a babysitter is a very personal decision. To get the best idea if a sitter is the right choice for your family, a face-to-face meeting is a good approach. It also introduces the sitter to your children in a low-stakes setting and allows you to see how everyone gets along.

It will depend on the babysitter. Some sitters prefer only to help with childcare and others are happy to do more. When you create a babysitting job, you are able to specify if you have any additional requests. Doing so ensures any sitters that apply are aware of "extras" and are agreeable to assisting with them.

To ensure CareFinder is able to provide the best support to our sitters and families, we require communication about babysitting jobs take place on our platform. However, we do recommend exchanging personal contact information, to be used only in the case of emergency.

All jobs can be edited simply by clicking the "Edit" button at the top of the job page.

The best way to connect with a sitter on CareFinder is to invite the sitter to your job! Click "Create a Job" to start the process. You are also able to invite sitters to your jobs by clicking on the "Invite to Job" button on their profile.

Many families on the CareFinder platform have success finding a sitter for last minute jobs. Be sure to make your job visible to all of our approved sitters so it gets seen by everyone.

While it is up to each individual sitter, we do recommend that you pay the sitter their hourly rate for the interview, as they are taking time out of their day to meet with you.

No. CareFinder does not share any of your personal information with the sitter. The sitters can only view the information in your profile page.

Make sure your job post on CareFinder is visible to all of our approved sitters then we can boost it to our sitters. Usually jobs have applicants within minutes.

We request that parents pay for the sitter's transportation. In Japan, it can be very expensive and it is standard for employers to cover transportation costs.

Our sitters are incredibly diverse. They represent more than sixty countries from six continents and speak dozens of languages. They are university students, parents, teachers, nurses and musicians. We believe the wide range of experiences and insights found in CareFinder's babysitter community is what sets our sitters apart! We hope you feel the same.

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