How do you screen, or run background check on candidates for househelp, especially the one you find from social media sites like FB or nextdoor?? Also, how do you ask for background info from them during the conversation?

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I would just say that an offer is contingent upon a successful background check. I usually do a dmv check, too. I had someone that had a suspended license in the last 6 months and her story did not check out. Use an outside agency, not care.com. It does not always refresh so if something happened very recently it will not get picked up.

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You can go through a background check agency and do a full check if you would like. Usually it’s a few hundred $$ depending how deep of a check you want…

We always go on social media and search but depending on what kind of help we have paid for a background check (e.g., afterschool nanny etc)

For context I am getting housekeeping help for keeping us organized weekly. When you interview, do you ask for full name and photo id? Address? How do you initiate the conversation?

Do not use care.com. I am an acquaintance with a person that used the app for employment and I knew for a fact shouldn’t be alone with someone’s child. ( they have mental issues, extremely unstable)

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