Nanny Guide > A Professional Psychological Report

You are recruiting a nanny to care for your child(ren) - without a doubt the most important job in your household. You may have already interviewed several candidates and narrowed the field down. Do you want to know more about what motivates the candidate you selected and, more importantly, how she will act when you are gone?

Sadly, nannies and the families they work for don't always understand each other. This isn't surprising, as the personality traits and skill sets the parents bring to their jobs are often very different from the skills and traits that the best nannies have. The end result is poor communication, frustration, and nanny turnover.

4nannies.com has partnered with Hogan Assessment Systems (HAS), a test publisher and consulting firm to develop the Nanny Personality Inventory. The Nanny Personality Inventory is simple and easy to administer. It is an online assessment, with true/false answers, that the nanny can take in approximately 10 minutes. The assessment is evaluated using Hogan Assessment's well-established analytical methods to produce the Nanny Personality Inventory Report. But don't let this simplicity fool you - this is a powerful psychological assessment tool with over 25 years of successful use! The Nanny Personality Inventory can provide powerful insight into potential strengths and weaknesses of a nanny candidate as well as highlighting common traits between employers and the nanny.

A nanny candidate or the hiring family can order the complete assessment report from 4nannies.com's secure online interface and have the completed report delivered to their email box in minutes!

Hogan Assessments pioneered the use of personality measures in helping organizations make hiring and other personnel decisions. HAS assessment tools identify the personal and motivational characteristics needed to perform well in various occupations. The Nanny Personality Inventory report presents the nanny's assessment results for key personality traits in an easy to read graphical format. There is also a narrative report that assesses an individual nanny's traits and characteristics in the context of the nanny job. The career specific Nanny Personality Inventory is an invaluable aid to nanny employers, nanny referral agencies, and nannies themselves. The Nanny Personality Inventory evaluates the strengths and competencies that enhance an individual's career, and assists employers and referral agents in pre-employment evaluations.

COSTS: There is no fee to take the Nanny Personality Inventory Assessment. Fees are charged on a per report ordered basis. For a limited time, 4nannies.com family members pay the reduced price of $74.95 per report; all others, including the applicant, pay $99.95. MasterCard, Visa and Discover card payments are processed on 4nannies.com's secure server.

4nannies.com strongly encourages you to take all prudent steps to verify the background of your nanny candidate before she begins caring for your children! We are all conscious of how expensive good child care can be - this is NOT the place to cut corners!

REPORT DELIVERY: Reports are emailed in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) to the address provided by the customer.

Click here to view a sample Nanny Personality Inventory Report (PDF format)

ABOUT THE NANNY PERSONALITY INVENTORY: The Nanny Personality Inventory developed by HAS is the only personality inventory with these essential features:

• Designed to predict occupational success.
• Developed exclusively on working adults.
• Normed on 30,000 working adults.
• Fourth grade reading level.
• No invasive or intrusive items.
• Computerized interpretive reports

WHY THE NANNY PERSONALITY INVENTORY?

• Used in conjunction with a formal job interview, the Nanny Personality Inventory can help the hiring family have as accurate a picture as is possible of the nanny candidate.
• Oftentimes the candidate does not have the job interview skills to best present themselves to potential employers. The Nanny Personality Inventory helps hiring families have a clearer view the candidate.
• Many hiring families will fly a nanny candidate in for a personal interview and brief 'probation period.' Isn't it better to purchase and review the Nanny Personality Inventory prior to purchasing expensive plane tickets and loosing valuable recruiting time?
• The hiring family may not be skilled at interviewing. The Nanny Personality Inventory can assist the family and help the family better understand the candidate.

The HAS Nanny Personality Inventory should be used as part of a comprehensive selection process. All candidates should be thoroughly interviewed, all references checked, and a criminal history search conducted. The Nanny Personality Inventory helps the interviewer identify applicants whose personal characteristics corrsespond to the demands of the nanny job. Remember, the total responsibility of screening, selecting and supervising a nanny rests with the parents.

Click here to view a sample Nanny Personality Inventory Report (PDF format)

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