The kind of person you're excited to welcome home.
Capable, engaging, independent, caring, and genuinely interested in children. Speaking Hebrew is a bonus; being someone you would trust with your kids is the requirement. Here is what we look for and how we check it.
Selected with care
Childcare experience, English, references, driving, and judgment, assessed by us before any introduction.
Matched to your family
Language, household, schedule, and personality on both sides, before anyone interviews.
A regulated program
The federal J-1 au pair program, with a designated sponsor's screening, approval, insurance, and local support.
What we look for
Childcare experience
Specific roles, the ages they cared for, dates and hours, and references we actually call. We separate what a candidate reports from what we have verified.
English and communication
A live English conversation and practical childcare scenarios, so you see how they communicate with a parent and with a child. The sponsor makes the final English determination in its own process.
Judgment and responsibility
Structured scenario questions about the moments that test a caregiver: a sick child, a change of plans, a rule they disagree with. An interview, never a clinical assessment.
Driving readiness
License status, driving history, and honest confidence for the kind of driving your area requires. Nobody is promised as U.S.-road ready.
Motivation and family fit
A real interest in childcare, a realistic year-long commitment, and alignment on schedules, independence, culture, and household life.
Personality and connection
With consent, a real video, an individual story, and genuine interests, so you meet the person rather than a label.
Every profile we share states its stage: Israel Au Pair evaluation complete, sponsor review pending, or sponsor approved. Our evaluation supplements the designated sponsor's required screening; it does not replace it.
Six things we match on
Both sides answer the same questions before a match. Most great matches come from getting these six right.
Childcare
Ages, infant experience, energy, discipline style, sick days.
Language
How much Hebrew at home, when, and how much English the candidate wants.
Culture and religion
Shabbat, kosher, holidays, secular to observant, interfaith.
Household
Pets, house rules, privacy, guests, meals together, travel.
Schedule and driving
Mornings, evenings, split shifts, school runs, car use.
Personality
Independent or family-oriented, quiet or social, city or suburbs.
The people, and the matching.
What happens between the screening and the first interview.
Curated introductions
You meet a small number of candidates who fit what you told us, each with a written profile and a video introduction, and both sides choose. Every introduction remains subject to the designated sponsor's approval.
Candidates who arrive prepared
Before a match, candidates know what American family life, your schedule, and your house rules look like. We prepare both sides for the interview and for the year.
A person, the whole way through
Someone who knows your family and your candidate stays with you from the first conversation through the sponsor's process to arrival day, within our agreed role, and speaks both languages when it helps.
Find your match.
Share a little about your family first. Then our team follows up for a conversation.
Find your match