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We recommend that you use the interview as an opportunity to discuss the detail of the duties that you will expect the au pair to fulfil, and to assess the aptitude and competence of the au pair when carrying these out. This will be made easier if you have thought through the au pair duties in some detail beforehand.
The template below is designed to help you in approaching each interview methodically and to assit in obtaining a similar range of information from each potentail au pair in order that you can make comparisions.
| 1. Date and time of interview |
2. Method (telephone, face to face) |
| 3. Au Pair name |
4. Identity check (passport, home telephone, etc) |
| 5. Age |
6. Contact details |
| 7. Reasons for wanting to be an au pair in the UK |
8. Future ambition after being an au pair |
| 9. Have you ever lived away from home before? |
10. When are you available |
| 11. Dates required to return home (eg interviews, weddings, Christmas) |
12. Current/last job and when from/to |
| 13. Why leaving current position |
| 14. References - contact details for current employer/family |
| 15. Ages of children preferred |
16. Smoker? |
| 17. Childcare experience and qualifications |
18. Confidence with pets |
| 19. Driving experience in home country |
20. Driving experience in UK |
| 21. Preferred locations |
| 22. General attitude toward interviewer |
23. Level of English
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fluent |
conversational |
difficult |
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| 24. Ability to promote own questions |
| 25. Questions asked by Au Pair |
| 26. Interviewer Comments |
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