More than 20,000 families have received an Au Pair in Paris through an agency since 1999. By an abuse of language, it is often referred to “girls” Au Pair, but this term does not exclude in any case the candidate from the male gender.
What is an Au Pair?
The term “Au Pair” refers to a young man or a young foreign girl, coming to France to improve their knowledge of French in sharing the life of a family. Investments in Au Pair in France are governed by a placement agreement Au pair of a foreign trainee assistant family.
In exchange for 30 hours of weekly child care and light housekeeping, the person placed au pair receives, lodging and pocket money. For American, Canadian or English au pair, your agency Au Pair Paris does not accompany you through your project. Because your children are also our priority, our au pair agency rigorously selects the most qualified candidate.
Au Pair Why Paris?
For the seriousness and quality of our selection of your au pair, administrative management of your file, the advice and the availability of your contacts in France or the USA. Whether the English-daughter pair, the American pair, the Canadian peer or other Anglo-Saxon countries, professionalism and experience make recruitment agency Au Pair agency in Paris a single pair in France. Au Pair Paris is the only agency in French peer to have an office in the US led by an American professional. Thanks to its formula with great service, you will appreciate the unique benefits advice and our Au Pair agency.
The websites offering to connect girls and families are no guarantee. Neither the candidates nor the families are controlled. Many girls fall without being motivated and never give an answer, girls can not get a visa at par enroll hoping that a family does not necessarily accept knowing that it is illegal; families who are poorly behaved in the past and who can no longer go through an agency will also register on the Internet.
Moreover, via the Internet, you do not have the monitoring of local correspondents nor our guidelines for living that takes place legally. Finally, we are regularly alerted to the “scams” related to free websites: nonexistent families upon arrival, family who do not pay their au pair or who ask for money to pay for the trip. Foreign host families agencies are, in turn, registered in the corresponding in the country will be carried placement.
For your departure abroad, the agencies are not UFAAP sectored … You choose the agency based on the proposed destinations, reputation, the contact you’ve had with it, its rates … Membership in the association is a more reliable because the agencies are committed to respecting a demanding quality charter.
We provide guidance to our local correspondents and families on the tasks that you may be requested, and which can not in any case be requested. Generally, in addition to child care itself (games, monitoring homework, bathing, preparing breakfast or meals for children), foster families ask young Au Pair active participation in housework .
Yes I do. The young men placement exists as well! Far fewer families willing to take the young men to look after their children, but attitudes are changing gradually. Some US agencies do not accept applications from young men given the small proportion of American families accepting them.
We strongly recommend to future boys Au Pair contact the agencies so they can receive counseling on the possibilities of acceptance of their file and/or optionally the orientation towards a more open countries to accept young men.
If the person you host does not suit you, the role of the agency UFAAP you depend on will help you solve the problem and possibly change or candidate.