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Work agencies

Most of the following agencies offer the au pair jobs:

• Great Britain
• Ireland
• France
• Germany
• Belgium
• Italy
• USA
• Austria
• Australia
• Holland

Generaly they also offer jobs in the hotel industry sector (waiter, receptionist, room-service waitress...). In some cases the job is related to tasks typical for airports, funfairs or natural reserves.

There are also work agencies that offers jobs to university students to the USA.

If you use the agency services:

1. Make sure of professional solvency of the agency and if it’s guaranteed by a known organization
2. Before leaving the agency, make sure of the kind of job, the weekly hours and the wage.
3. Try to know if the job includes accomodation. In positive case, you must know if they deduct it from the wage and if the kind of room (double or single). If you will be in a residence, you have to know the main characteristics: location, communications, accomodation plan, leisure places, etc.
4. In some countries, at the end of your stay, you can recover the deducted taxes from the wage. The agency will inform you about how to do it.