Nanny Agency JobsCompare live offers, deadlines and unresolved terms without implying you accepted both.
Separate offers from possibilities
Create one row for each opportunity with its actual stage: interview, verbal proposal, written offer, accepted offer or pending condition. A family introduction is not an offer. Capture who stated each term and when. The offer comparison guide provides a terms ledger; you can use the same idea on paper.
Compare the working week
Put ordinary hours, variable hours, location, travel, child-care duties and supporting work side by side. Keep pay in the units and basis actually offered, and leave unknowns blank. Do not convert a vague annual figure into an hourly promise. Ask about the parts that would change your choice, not every possible scenario.
Map the clocks
For each opportunity, record the response deadline, anticipated start and any checks or agreement review still pending. A preferred family may not have made a decision yet. Ask the agency for the expected next update, then decide what you can responsibly do if it does not arrive before another deadline.
Communicate without pressure or fiction
You may say that you have another decision deadline and ask whether this process has a confirmed next step. Do not claim an offer you do not have or give a false deadline. You also need not disclose another family’s private details. If an extension would help, use the agency offer conversation to identify the right contact.
Make and close one decision at a time
Fictional example: Lee has a written offer due Friday and a second interview Thursday. Lee asks the second agency when the family expects to decide, and asks the first whether Friday can move. The second agency cannot promise an offer; the first keeps its deadline. Lee decides from the actual written offer and personal priorities, then closes the other process accurately. The example does not prescribe which job to choose.
Decision table: For each opportunity, record the stage, who can approve the offer, written schedule, pay basis, location, start date, response deadline and the next promised update. Mark each cell as confirmed, proposed or unknown. Highlight only the differences that matter to your own working life. This prevents a strong interview feeling from being compared as if it were a written offer.