Nanny Agency O.
Unresponsive and Unregulated...But Few Better Alternatives
I use care.com as a recruiter for a nanny agency. Their customer service is very unresponsive, there is no way to call them and when I email, the responses are very delayed and I sometimes get no response at all. When they do respond, there is no possibility of a refund when some part of the site is down and I could not actually use the service. I also used care.com when I was a sitter so I saw it from that side too. I received tons of messages from parents who had no profile information or details. I had issues with parents offering very low rates, or asking for my interview availability and never responding to actually meet me. Then, I would hear from them a year later when they were looking again. There is no accountability for any users of the site. As parents point out in these reviews, it's hard to figure out how unsubscribe/deactivate account and stop being billed. That is true whether you're a recruiter, a parent or a sitter. The recruitment membership is overpriced, because candidate quality varies so widely and the system has no algorithm to match schedules and job requests. I consistently receive lots of applications to my job posts, but very few responses to my requests to interview. I hope someone builds a better alternative to care.com.
Response from Care.comApr 21, 2022
So sorry to hear you didn't have any luck with our service. If you'd like us to take a look at your account and see where we can help, please each out to us through our Help Center contact us link at help.care.com or via Facebook messenger. Please include Reference Number REV-001678 in your response along with a screen shot of the error message received.



