Au Pair Agency With Video Introductions

Unique Au Pair Agency with Video Introductions
British staff travel overseas to personally meet candidates
Au Pairs have an up to date police check
Au Pairs have a minimum of two references double checked by us
Au Pair Agency that uses psychometric tests
60 day replacement period guarentee option
Supportive after placement support for you and your au pair
Au Pair social events organised
Au Pair advice and plenty of information for hosting an au pair

New to hosting an aupair?

If you're thinking of hosting an au pair for the first time, you're about to make a good choice.

Hosting an au pair can be a rewarding, flexible solution for your childcare needs. Choose the right au pair and you'll be asking yourself what took so long to find out about this program.

But how can you make sure you get it right?

Answer - choose an au pair agency that offers a second to none service:

1st Choice Au Pairs is one of the only au pair agencies in the UK (if not the world) who travel overseas themselves, so the same staff are dealing with each candidate as well as dealing with host families
Having an au pair agency who have actually met the individual candidates, means you can discuss detailed aspects of the interview - how did they come over, what was their body language like, our gut feelings etc.
You can be confident that if you discuss the details of the position, about your family, job or home, these will be considered carefully and any special requirements taken into account.
An au pair agency that uses psychometric tools to assess and highlight the likelihood of someone being more prone to home sickness, adapting to new situations, feeling independent etc.
An au pair agency that can actually show you video or photographs of its candidates taken while they are attending a proper interview - not photographs sent by an au pair who has registered by email.

This is why 1st Choice AU Pairs excels in all these areas - to dramatically increase the possibility of making sure the placement is as well matched as it can be.

A quality agency should only deal with partners with similar standards in overseas countries. Dealing directly with host families in the UK and au pairs in other countries, means we are confident of upholding consistently high quality standards in both places.

Talk to us now on 0845 4300 230 for FREE no obligation advice on hosting an au pair and to discuss whether an au pair will be the right solution for your needs.

Au Pair agency who personally travel overseas to meet its candidates

Au Pair Agency who travel to meet its candidates

Our au pair world is not just UK based. Staff from our UK office travel each month to other European countries to personally meet with prospective au pairs. We have visited au pairs in their family homes, in the work place, their school or university.

Meeting our candidates face to face gives opportunity to explain what an au pair does and how she may spend her time. We take time to get to know each au pair, find out about their experience and take them through our registration process.

Having three children ourselves, our acid test when we meet an au-pair candidate always is "would we be happy inviting this person to our home".

Au Pair agency with au pair Video Profiles

Au Pair agency with Video Profiles of Au Pair Candidates

Offering video introductions of our candidates, 1st Choice Au Pairs continues to lead the way with a comprehensive and unrivalled full service. It's almost as good as attending the interview yourself – without the hassle.

We build a comprehensive profile of each au pair so when we return to the UK we can speak with a lot more authority about each person to our families.

Video allows your children to see who may be coming to stay with them. It enables them to play a bigger part in choosing someone and makes the process of mentally adjusting to a new au pair start a lot sooner.

Au pair agency provides two checkable references

Comprehensive vetting processes

We have exacting standards with only 1 in 3 au pairs coming through our demanding screening process. We have a diverse range of recruitment techniques including psychometric testing and competency based interviewing,

We personally corroborate references, obtain medical & police checks, verify educational attainment and conduct identity checks for every person.

100% money back guarantee available with gold plus package

Money back and au pair replacement guarantees

Our comprehensive services have flexible fee options:- Pay up-front with 100% money back guarantee, registration deposit, no-deposit/no obligation, spread payment, pay as you go and bundled service packages.

With our gold plus and platinum service packages we offer a 60 day replacement guarantee in the event a family needs to replace their au pair.

We provide one-off services i.e. training, psychometric testing and translations. We offer exceptional value for money – the majority of new business coming through referrals from satisfied clients.

One Au pair agency serving both families and au pairs

Oustanding communication

Being 'one agency' (not working with partners) we avoid typical communication problems of having too many links in the chain.

Since we are dealing directly with both families and au pairs, we can check each others requirements easily, and quickly provide information to follow up questions. This enables us to help you with more informed placement matches – using science as well as our own gut feeling.

What this means is that the information you provide to us will be passed on to the au pair prior to you making a phone call.

Au pair agency organises regular social events

Au Pair Social Events and Training

It is imperative that your au pair settles in quickly and has plenty of opportunity to meet new friends.

Home sickness can never be avoided completely, but our multilingual staff team in the UK provides long term support to your au pair, organizing trips and social events and keeping our au pair network in touch with each other.

We run au pair training weekends in London and Cambridge that provide your au pair with important skills that enables them to feel confident.