Nanny Agency JobsStart with the agency's instructions and describe your actual use honestly when asked. A rule requiring independent answers, a declaration about assistance and an ordinary request for a résumé are different situations. Read the wording for the task you are completing before deciding what to do.
Where the instructions are unclear and assistance could affect whether your work meets them, ask a focused question. Do not make a false statement about how the application was produced. This guide offers a practical disclosure decision process, not a universal legal rule or a prediction of how an agency will react.
Identify the task and its actual rule
Open the current invitation, form instructions and any declaration beside the submission button. Look for language about outside assistance, AI, independent completion or authorship. Keep the task's rule separate from general advice you have seen online.
A résumé prepared before applying may be treated differently from a timed assessment or written response intended to show your unaided judgment. Do not transfer permission from one task to another. If a provider allows assistance with one document, that does not answer what is allowed in a later exercise.
If the wording is unclear, quote only the relevant part in your question to the agency. Ask whether your intended use is allowed. “May I use a tool to suggest grammar edits to my own draft?” is more precise than “Are you okay with technology?”
Check the rule before using the tool where possible. Clarification is easier when you can describe a proposed action rather than asking whether an already completed submission should count.
Describe the assistance accurately to yourself
Make a short private note of what happened. Did you ask for spelling corrections, sentence alternatives, an outline, a full first draft or answers to a questionnaire? What did you review, reject or rewrite afterward?
These distinctions help you answer a question truthfully. They are not loopholes or a ranking of acceptable behavior. The receiving agency's instructions still govern the requested task, and a small amount of help can matter where independent work is required.
Avoid describing extensive drafting as proofreading merely because you edited the output afterward. Equally, do not claim the tool created your experience when you supplied and checked the facts yourself. State the contribution at its real scope.
Keep the note minimal. You do not need to preserve sensitive prompts or create a dossier about every keystroke. You need a clear enough account to understand what you are being asked to declare.
Choose the branch that matches the instructions
Use this original NAJ decision exercise. If AI assistance is explicitly prohibited for the task, complete it within that rule. If you already used assistance, ask how to proceed rather than submitting a declaration that is no longer accurate.
If the instructions permit assistance and request disclosure, follow the specified format. State the relevant use without adding a lengthy defense or promotional language about the tool.
If the instructions ask a direct question, answer it directly and truthfully. OpenAI's individual-use terms also prohibit representing AI output as human-generated when it was not. OpenAI: Terms of Use
If no relevant rule or question appears, consider whether clarification is needed to understand the assignment. For an exercise intended to assess your own writing or judgment, asking first may resolve a material uncertainty. Do not invent a universal disclosure requirement or assume silence means every form of assistance is permitted.
Keep any disclosure factual and proportionate
A useful explanation identifies the task, the assistance and your review. It does not ask the recruiter to accept generated claims on the tool's authority. You remain responsible for the experience and availability you present.
An original example for limited editing is: “I wrote the draft from my own experience and used an AI tool to suggest wording changes. I checked and edited the final version.” Use that only if it accurately describes what happened.
For a fuller contribution, a truthful statement might be: “I supplied factual notes and used AI to propose an initial draft. I revised it and checked the final claims against my records.” Do not substitute the first example if the second is closer to the facts.
A disclosure cannot repair an invented qualification or misleading duty. Correct those claims independently. For reviewing the underlying content, use the AI résumé editing guide.
Test three fictional situations
Original fictional examples: Rowan prepares a résumé and uses a tool to shorten two sentences. The application asks whether AI assisted with preparation. Rowan answers the actual question and describes the limited edit, without claiming the whole résumé was produced unaided.
Morgan receives an assessment invitation that requires independent completion. Morgan has not started and leaves AI out of the assessment. Earlier permission to use editing help on a résumé does not change that instruction.
Lee receives a writing exercise whose rules mention outside help but do not explain whether proofreading tools are included. Lee asks: “Does the independent-work instruction permit grammar suggestions on a draft I write myself, or should I complete the text without that assistance?” Lee waits for the answer before using the tool on the exercise.
These cases illustrate how the question changes with the assignment. They do not predict an agency's policy or imply that a particular disclosure guarantees acceptance.
Review both the statement and the application
Before submitting, read any declaration again. Check that your answer matches the assistance actually used and that the final application remains factually accurate. Confirm that no fictional sample, suggested achievement or unsupported outcome survived the editing process.
Use this original checklist: I identified the correct task; I read its current instructions; I clarified a consequential ambiguity where needed; I described assistance honestly; and I can explain every claim in the finished application.
If you discover an inaccurate statement after submission, use the agency's permitted correction route and describe the specific issue. Do not assume that silently changing your local copy corrects what was already received.
The practical objective is a submission you can stand behind. Clear disclosure, where requested or needed to resolve the rules, works alongside accurate content. Neither replaces the other.
Sources
OpenAI: Terms of Use, checked October 27, 2026, for the narrowly stated provider rule. The decision exercise, sample messages and fictional cases are original NAJ editorial guidance, not legal advice.