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I was a babysitter on Sitter City's on demand platform many years ago pre-business school. I was insanely qualified (CPR certified, years of experience with infants and toddlers, teacher) so I am biased to think there are great people on those platforms. Just do your diligence -- referrals, interviews, etc.
Does your neighborhood have a FB or NextDoor group you can use? I personal prefer to use daycare workers/teachers/coaches we already know, but then ask neighbors if they have kids who sit or recommendations to share. My kids are older now, but I still want to have a community connection to our sitter. Once or twice, a coworker has had an older child who babysat.
I like Sittercity. Use it for actual nannies. For babysitter I would probably post an ad on Sittercity and fully interview a bunch of candidates, over the course of 2-3 interviews, understand experience and background in detail. Then create a spreadsheet of folks I’d be willing to call.
I would not feel comfortable trusting the platform to just send a great person without vetting them myself
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Does your city/neighborhood have a nanny network group on Facebook? We moved to our city a couple years ago and it was so helpful along with recommendations from co workers.