kat s.

I signed up with care.com as a babysitter, caregiver and petsitter (3different profiles) and stayed on for 3 months. I have +10 years experience in child and animal care including special needs children, CPR/first aid training as well as 4 years experience as a caregiver and in the 3 months I was on the site, even with all that experience and a good review I got 2 interviews and no jobs. I filled out my profile, kept it up to date and paid for a background check and still rarely got past dm's with everyone that messaged me. There's no accountability for the parents either so while I put time, effort and money into finding a job, the parents don't even have to have a picture. I've seen craigslist job postings with more info than almost all the profiles the parents set up on this site. It's not just the parents; care.com not only makes you pay for a subscription but has "badges" within the site like a video game so if you don't earn enough badges, you're chances at someone looking at your profile goes down which is ridiculous because i'm already paying them. If you want to end your subscription and remove your account, they take their sweet time and still charge for that month and you have to keep going back to the site every day double checking until it's confirmed because there's a chance they'll keep charging your card in the background if you aren't careful.