Re: this not NOT gerardosincerelyceliaAugust 16 2007, 18:38:22 UTC
i've used interexchange http://www.interexchange.org/ they have different work abroad options and i'm doing the au pair in the netherlands. you fill out a pre-app and then once that goes through you do the bigger application...once they receive all your info they send it to their people overseas to have families look at it....then they start sending you e-mails with families information (which has your job schedule, pay rate, perks, schedule, information about the family, pictures of the family, etc). if you don't like the looks of the first family they send you, you can look at the next one and so on and so forth until you decide you're interested in one. then you talk to the family (or the mom of the family) and you can both agree on the placement.
it's been prett costly---i went through this agency because my cousin who was an au pair in france had other au pair friends go through this same agency and it went well for them so i knew it was legit. i've read in travel books about another agency (sunny au pairs) www.sunnyaupairs.com and I think they have free registration and no placement fee which would have been much better for me---but i didn't learn about it until after i'd gone through my application with interexchange. overall, though, i've felt good about interexchange so far...they've been prompt with responding to me when i have questions and really polite...so I don't know how the sunny au pair place runs its program (and if there are other fees that would have made the costs similar) but it's something to check out. as i said, i went with this program because i knew of other au pairs who went through it safely and legitamately.
hope that helps! we'll see how this program does when i move to the netherlands next week....
it's been prett costly---i went through this agency because my cousin who was an au pair in france had other au pair friends go through this same agency and it went well for them so i knew it was legit. i've read in travel books about another agency (sunny au pairs) www.sunnyaupairs.com and I think they have free registration and no placement fee which would have been much better for me---but i didn't learn about it until after i'd gone through my application with interexchange. overall, though, i've felt good about interexchange so far...they've been prompt with responding to me when i have questions and really polite...so I don't know how the sunny au pair place runs its program (and if there are other fees that would have made the costs similar) but it's something to check out. as i said, i went with this program because i knew of other au pairs who went through it safely and legitamately.
hope that helps! we'll see how this program does when i move to the netherlands next week....
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