Building Nanny Skills On Everyday Experience
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Building Nanny Skills On Everyday Experience
If you're just beginning your career as a professional nanny, there are a few nanny skills you can work on now, before you even being your new job. As you perfect these nanny skills, make note of them, even write them down if you have to. The goal is to have a really good understanding of your strengths before you begin answering nanny interview questions. For example:
1) Practice patience. Are you the kind of person who goes bonkers in a traffic jam or loses it when the clerk at the coffee shop gives you two sugars instead of one? The same triggers in everyday life are going to present themselves to you in the home, so now is a good time to practice patience.
2) It's easy to write “excellent organizational skills” on your nanny resume, but can you back it up with facts? When's the last time you did something that required a high degree of organization? Forget about the time you cleaned out your closet and think about times when you may have coordinated a committee, volunteered as a sports coach, or lead a team of girl guides.
3) The next time you find yourself in a noisy, crowded, busy place, pay attention to how you handle the feeling. Hopefully your nanny experience won't always be like that, but it's important to understand how you handle noisy, crowded situations. Are you able to keep a clear head or do you become anxious? An important nanny skill to build on is the ability to remain in control during times like this.
You see? Everything you do and experience in everyday life is a nanny skill just waiting to be nurtured.
