You would never hire a key colleague at work without a clear role, references, and a written offer. Yet many of us hire a nanny, tutor, cleaner, or carer for our loved ones with little more than a hasty conversation and a hopeful heart. Hiring for Home is the family employment guide for people who know that is not good enough any more. Blending stories, practical frameworks, and honest reflection, Samira Devane offers a grounded, compassionate roadmap for anyone bringing paid help into their home. From scoping the role and setting fair pay to drafting a simple household employee contract, running background checks for nannies, and planning trial days, she walks you through each step without jargon or judgement. You will learn how to establish household communication routines, how to set respectful boundaries at home, and how to repair trust when things go wrong. This is not a legal manual or a moral lecture. It is a humane domestic staff handbook for real families, including those with complex schedules, cultural mixes, and tight budgets. Whether you are about to tutor hiring guide your first helper or rethinking long-standing arrangements, Hiring for Home helps you design relationships that are safer, kinder, and more sustainable. It will support you in ending nanny employment or other roles with grace when the time comes, so that everyone involved can look back on the work with dignity.
Hiring for Home
SKU: 9789376554249
$30.99 Regular Price
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- Samira Devane writes and teaches about the messy, intimate intersection between home life and paid work. Over many years she has listened to families, nannies, tutors, cleaners, and carers describe what happens when the front door closes and work begins. Those conversations, full of affection, frustration, and sometimes grief, shaped her conviction that domestic employment deserves more structure and more humanity. Samira's work is driven by the belief that clear expectations and fair treatment are forms of care. She is interested in how small, everyday decisions about pay, privacy, and boundaries echo much older histories of domestic service. The shift from grand houses with servants' entrances to modern flats with shared kitchens fascinates her, not for nostalgia but for what it reveals about power and belonging. Through workshops, writing, and quiet one-to-one guidance, Samira helps people move from improvisation to intentional practice in their homes. She aims to offer tools that work for busy, imperfect, real families and for workers who need both income and respect. Hiring for Home grew from seeing how often conflict and heartbreak could have been avoided with a little more clarity and courage at the start.
