Good for college students - Anonymous employee Jovie Employee Review

4.0
Aug 20, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

This is a really good job for college students. You can pick up on-call cases when you want so that it works with your class schedule. The agency finds families for you to work with. There are also long-term position with families available sometimes. It isn't very stressful job. You can get a really good reference from the parents if you work for the family on a long term basis. Children are really fun to work with!

Cons

You are working for an agency, so the parents pay the agency and the agency gives yo a cut of what they get. This goes on even if you've worked with a family for years and the agency isn't really needed anymore, but you can't work with families outside agency that you have met through the agency. This could mean that the agency is making min. wage for every hour you work.

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

I've worked with Jovie Newport Beach since 2022. I started as an on-call nanny and worked my way up into administration. I am now in charge of recruitment, event coordination, and general management. I love the company culture and encourage families to use our services and for potential nannies to apply! I have met many great people through the Jovie network! It has been great!

Cons

I can't think of any cons!

2.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Help find you a family to work with. I could see how this could perhaps be great for part time

Cons

LOW PAY for the job. After 3 years with Jovie, I was getting paid $16/hr and my full-time family was paying somewhere from $26-28/hr. They told my nanny family I was getting higher raises than I was. MUCH fairer companies out there. No PTO due to "not being salaried employees" even though that's not how PTO works! Constantly nagged about logging in my hours even though I was always on top of it. Going through them was a pain. Don't recommend. Always wondered if why they rebranded from College Nannies and Sitters was to try to separate from all the negative reviews.

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