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MommyMixer is a networking event that brings together selected university students and parents who need babysitters. A cost effective alternative to childcare agencies, the events allow parents to interview a number of candidates in an informal setting. Parents pay a USD 100 entrance fee, or USD 75 if they’ve attended a previous mixer. On arrival, they’re handed a ‘nanny notebook’ containing resumes of all potential hires attending the event, including references and their schedules for the upcoming academic term.
After brief introductions, parents and babysitters are encouraged to mingle and get to know each other. Attendance is limited to twenty to thirty moms and/or dads and the same number of candidates.
Students don’t pay a fee, and MommyMixer doesn’t take a cut of their pay - parents and sitters negotiate hourly rates. The main advantages for students is access to a group of potential employers in one go, instead of time-consuming and potentially unsafe interviews with individual families. Besides babysitting, many students work as ‘family assistants’ - running errands, driving kids to after-school programs, planning birthday parties etc.
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