Our Au Pairs
Our Au Pairs are between the ages of 18-30 and mostly female – although we have made many successful male Au Pair placements. Our Au Pairs are competent in conversational English and have at least 100 hours of documented childcare experience (on average our Au Pairs have 1300 hours of childcare experience)! All of our Au Pairs go through a rigorous screening process – including police and medical record checks, references, a personal interview, English and personality tests.
The primary responsibility of an Au Pair is to provide you with child care support. Your Au Pair can also assist your family with household chores and light cleaning. However, any cleaning or duties that distract your Au Pair from their primary function of child care are not within the rules of our programmes. Our Au Pairs participate in two different programmes.
Au Pair 123 – Our quality early childhood educational programme for children under 5 years old.
Au Pair Mate – Our programme designed for families with children over the age of 5 or at school.
Some agencies will charge each Au Pair a significant fee upon placement into a family - making the family as well as the Au Pair pay for the agency’s services. This can mean that many qualified and passionate Au Pair’s cannot afford to apply for a position within your family. Furthermore, the Au Pair can feel that they have paid for an overseas experience when in reality they are in the country to care for your children. Such misaligned expectations can cause conflict and even force your Au Pair to leave.
At Au Pair Link our families are our customers and your child care needs are paramount. We seek out Au Pairs that are passionate about children and who will be the right fit for your family. An Au Pair’s primary function is to care for your children - so we don’t think it makes sense that they should pay us to do this!
Getting an Au Pair will help give you and your family greater flexibility, an extra pair of hands in the home, a fun cultural experience and so much more. Getting an Au Pair is not just for the rich and famous – in most instances an Au Pair is more affordable than other mainstream forms of childcare (a fact that makes Au Pair’s highly popular throughout Europe and America today). At Au Pair Link we carefully screen and place our Au Pairs based on your individual family needs – helping to ensure that you and your Au Pair will have a memorable year.