Nanny Agency JobsBeing told your profile has gone to a family can make the opportunity feel close. When nothing follows, the uncertainty is frustrating: you may be wondering whether to prepare for a call or keep the time available. A confirmed submission tells you what the agency sent. It does not tell you whether the family has reviewed it, decided whom to meet or communicated a decision back.
This guide concerns the gap after a recruiter confirms presentation and before a family interview. It helps you separate those possible pending steps and handle requests for tentative availability. If the family has already interviewed you, use the post-interview follow-up guide instead.
Understand what presentation establishes
Start with the recruiter's actual words. “We are preparing your profile,” “we would like to put you forward” and “we sent your profile” describe different actions. If sending has not been confirmed, use the application-stage guide to establish where you are first.
British American Household Staffing's published status guide distinguishes a résumé submitted to a client for consideration from a client interview pending. This is one agency's vocabulary, not a set of labels to apply to every recruiter. BAHS: Application Status.
After presentation, more than one question may remain unanswered: whether review has occurred, whether the family wants a meeting, or whether that answer has reached the recruiter. These are possibilities to distinguish, not explanations you can select from the length of the silence. “The family must be busy” and “they have definitely chosen someone else” both go beyond the information you have.
You can be disappointed by the communication gap without deciding that anyone acted badly.
Read the message for the decision still outstanding
Try this original three-part reading exercise on the most recent exchange. Mark the action already completed, the decision still open and anything you have actually been asked to do.
For example, “Your profile has been sent; what afternoons could you speak if they request a call?” contains a completed presentation and a request for availability. It does not contain a family invitation. By contrast, “The family has asked to meet; can you do Thursday?” reports a different decision, although the appointment still needs arranging.
This distinction changes the question you take back. With only presentation confirmed, ask whether the family has requested a meeting or whether consideration remains pending. With a meeting requested, address the proposed arrangements. Do not send an interview thank-you before any interview has happened.
If a job has disappeared from a public board, you can mention that observation and ask what it means for your candidacy through the permitted route. The listing's visibility alone does not identify your outcome.
Separate available time from a commitment
When a recruiter asks for possible interview times, give options you can genuinely offer. Ask whether the agency is collecting possibilities or requesting that you reserve a particular slot. An availability question should not quietly become a calendar commitment neither person has discussed.
If you agree to hold time, understand the arrangement: which period, for what purpose and how you will learn whether it becomes an appointment. Follow the agreement you actually make. If you can no longer keep it, contact the responsible person to resolve the change rather than assuming silence cancels it.
Where you have simply supplied options and no hold was agreed, keep those options accurate as circumstances change. You can tell the recruiter that an afternoon is no longer available without inventing another offer or implying the family must decide immediately.
Avoid arranging interview travel or other costly preparation around a meeting that has not been confirmed. If a proposed step involves a real commitment, obtain its details before deciding.
Work through a fictional request for availability
Fictional example: Noor receives a message saying her profile was sent for role F28. The recruiter asks which afternoons might work if the family requests a call. Noor offers Tuesday and Thursday and asks whether either needs to be held. The recruiter says these are possible options, with no appointment arranged.
No invitation follows. Later, Thursday becomes unavailable because Noor accepts a separate, definite commitment. Before treating the old options as current, Noor checks the agency's instructions for candidate updates and uses the permitted channel to supply the change.
Her original message could read: “Hello Morgan, for F28, Tuesday remains an option for a call; Thursday is no longer available. Have the family requested a meeting, or is their consideration still pending? Please let me know if there is a next step for me.”
Noor does not claim to know whether the family has read her profile. She also does not contact the household herself or treat the earlier availability question as a cancelled interview. The message keeps an answer accurate and asks whether a new action is needed.
Keep your search moving without inventing an outcome
Use any agreed update arrangement and the agency's contact policy before sending an enquiry. A request not to chase individual updates applies here too; a sample message is not permission to disregard it. Where a specific update was promised, refer to that actual agreement instead of imposing a universal response deadline.
Keep your wider search consistent with the commitments and agency arrangements you have actually made. Presentation alone does not tell you their terms. If another decision creates a real conflict, explain the relevant timing without revealing another household's private details or manufacturing urgency.
A later reply may confirm an interview, continued consideration or closure. Take the next action that reply supports. Until then, leave the outcome unresolved. You can remain interested without describing the role as yours, and you can make practical decisions without guessing why communication stopped.
Sources
British American Household Staffing: Application Status, checked October 27, 2026. Used for its distinction between client submission and interview status. The message-reading exercise and Noor example are original NAJ editorial tools.