Okay, you’ve finally had it at your 9-5 job. Your boss isn’t seeing eye-to-eye with you lately, they’re pushing you to do more than you can reasonably do in eight hours, and you’re tired of having to put up with the whole mess. You’re ready to start working for yourself, but how do you conduct a work from home job search?

Before quitting your job to pursue your dream of working for yourself, it would be a good idea to get organized. You want to go into your work from home job search knowing exactly where to look, what your qualifications are, and what your options are. Here are some things to consider:

1. What are your qualifications? If you have a degree and experience under your belt, you may be able to use those to help you find the perfect at home job. Use what you know to find what you want to do.

2. Can your current position translate into a work from home job? If you’re an accountant, it wouldn’t be outside of the realm of possibility to start a home accounting business. If you’re a secretary, perhaps a Virtual Assistant business is an avenue to consider.

3. Do you want to work for yourself, or are you interested in telecommuting? It helps if you know what you want before launching your work from home job search. What do you want to do? How many hours a work do you want to work?

4. Check with your current employer and see if you can telecommute rather than work on-site. Some companies are open to this, many aren’t. You’ll never know if it’s a possibility if you don’t ask. By telecommuting, you may be able to maintain some of the benefits you currently have, but won’t have to deal with the office politics.

5. Do have the skills and the equipment to work from home? Most telecommuting jobs require you to have high-speed internet, and all you have is dial-up. Be honest about what equipment and skills you have and seek only those jobs that will meet those requirements.

It’s unrealistic to think that you can find an online work from home job quickly and effortlessly. Quite often it can take months, if not years, to get to the point where you’re making the same amount of money as your currently full-time position. Be prepared to stay where you are until you can match those earnings, and then, and only then, you can feel confident enough to quit your job.

Besides telecommuting, are there other ways to earn money from home? You bet there are! If writing is your forte, you may be able to work as a freelance or ghostwriter. Excellent writing and grammar skills are needed. There are many direct sales companies to choose from, but you’ll want to carefully research each one before choosing one to join. Many people consider mystery shopping as an option for working from home but these positions are limited if you’re not in a large metropolitan city.

By: Chris Simpson

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Work At Home

Each week I find hundreds of work-at-home job announcements from companies looking for qualified employees to hire. Despite the abundance of work-at-home jobs, millions of people who want a work-at-home job continue to fall victim to scams and deceptive schemes. If you have been struggling to work at home, here are the three steps you must follow to be successful.

Step One: What can you do?

You wouldn’t use a search engine and sign up for the first thing that sounded good in a traditional job search; yet, so many people take this approach to finding a work-at-home job. One of the most important ideas you need to understand is that work-at-home job searches are just like traditional job searches. Employers are looking for people with specific skills and experience to fill specific jobs. You won’t simply sign up for a work-at-home job. Instead you’ll need a professional resume or application that sets you apart from the competition. All this starts by listing your skills and experiences. Don’t limit this list just to job skills. Also include volunteer experience, hobbies, and interests. Note the duties and activities your “jobs” involved and the things you’ve learned from your experiences.

Step Two: Look for jobs

Most people get in trouble in their work-at-home job search because they look for the wrong jobs in the wrong places. In Step One you learned that work-at-home jobs are no different from traditional jobs and as a result you’ve made a list of all your experiences. In Step Two you need to begin to search where employers post jobs. You can find work-at-home job announcements on job sites such as Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com by using “telecommute” as your keyword. You still need to watch out for deceptive job ads on general job search sites. The best way to avoid them is to remember two rules: 1) never pay money to get hired and 2) never give or use your personal bank to help a company do business.

If you’re serious about finding a work-at-home job, consider using a work-at-home job database. These services are not free (you’re not paying to get hired, you’re paying for the service of having someone else screen work-at-home jobs and allowing you to access their database), but they make finding jobs fast and easy.

Step Three: Apply, Apply, Apply

A successful job search requires creating a stellar resume or application. Remember, you’re competing against hundreds, maybe even thousands of other applicants. You’re resume or application needs to set you apart from all of them. You do that by tailoring your resume to the specific skills and experiences the employer is looking for. If the ad is for a transcriptionist to help a public speaker, share how fast you type, whether or not you have transcribed for other speakers or in the topic area the speaker specializes in. Indicate specific equipment or software you have experience with. Fit the resume to the job and you’ll be showing the employer you’re the exact person he’s looking for.

Also, do as the application says, no more, no less. A common complaint with employers is that the applicants don’t follow the directions. Don’t try to be cute or creative. Use strong, active verbs to outline your skills instead of crazy font or gimmicks.

Finally be ready to apply to many jobs over time. Work-at-home employers are notorious for not getting back to applicants about their submissions, so you need to keep applying, following-up, finding more jobs and applying some more. Successful home-based employees find their jobs by never giving up the search.

With hundreds of employers looking for qualified home-based workers, the would-be telecommuter has many opportunities to find a job. However, like traditional jobs, work-at-home jobs are earned by showcasing skills and experiences.

By: Leslie Truex

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Okay, you’ve finally had it at your 9-5 job. Your boss isn’t seeing eye-to-eye with you lately, they’re pushing you to do more than you can reasonably do in eight hours, and you’re tired of having to put up with the whole mess. You’re ready to start working for yourself, but how do you conduct a work from home job search?

Before quitting your job to pursue your dream of working for yourself, it would be a good idea to get organized. You want to go into your work from home job search knowing exactly where to look, what your qualifications are, and what your options are. Here are some things to consider:

1. What are your qualifications? If you have a degree and experience under your belt, you may be able to use those to help you find the perfect at home job. Use what you know to find what you want to do.

2. Can your current position translate into a work from home job? If you’re an accountant, it wouldn’t be outside of the realm of possibility to start a home accounting business. If you’re a secretary, perhaps a Virtual Assistant business is an avenue to consider.

3. Do you want to work for yourself, or are you interested in telecommuting? It helps if you know what you want before launching your work from home job search. What do you want to do? How many hours a work do you want to work?

4. Check with your current employer and see if you can telecommute rather than work on-site. Some companies are open to this, many aren’t. You’ll never know if it’s a possibility if you don’t ask. By telecommuting, you may be able to maintain some of the benefits you currently have, but won’t have to deal with the office politics.

5. Do have the skills and the equipment to work from home? Most telecommuting jobs require you to have high-speed internet, and all you have is dial-up. Be honest about what equipment and skills you have and seek only those jobs that will meet those requirements.

It’s unrealistic to think that you can find an online work from home job quickly and effortlessly. Quite often it can take months, if not years, to get to the point where you’re making the same amount of money as your currently full-time position. Be prepared to stay where you are until you can match those earnings, and then, and only then, you can feel confident enough to quit your job.

Besides telecommuting, are there other ways to earn money from home? You bet there are! If writing is your forte, you may be able to work as a freelance or ghostwriter. Excellent writing and grammar skills are needed. There are many direct sales companies to choose from, but you’ll want to carefully research each one before choosing one to join. Many people consider mystery shopping as an option for working from home but these positions are limited if you’re not in a large metropolitan city.

By: Chris Simpson

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Aren’t all work from home businesses scams? This is the number one question I see posted over and over again in various forums! After giving it much thought I realized that there is a main reason why so many people perceive all work from home as scams.

I have been working from home and doing internet marketing for years, and believe me I have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to work from home scams. But for every work from home scam there are at least four or five legitimate opportunities. Why is it that the 20% of work from home businesses that really are scams are causing people to fear that all work from home businesses are scams?

I think it is a matter of expectation. Most people who are looking for a home based business have never owned a business before. They are employees and are used to working a job where they trade dollars for hours, answer to a boss, and collect a check every pay day whether they deserve it or not.

A work from home business is just like any other business. There will be start up costs. There will be monthly overhead. It may take some time to get into profit. You can lose a little money – or a lot of money. You can also make a little money – or a lot of money. It is a business.

There are no guarantees! Anyone who tells you they will guarantee you will make millions of dollars from home is just blowing smoke at you. No one can guarantee that you will get out of bed in the morning and go to work, let alone do what it takes to succeed in your own business.

The reason why people think every work from home business is a scam is because what they really want is a work from home job. They want to trade hours for dollars, answer to a boss, and collect that check every pay day whether they have earned it (or more!) or not. The conflict is that people are selling businesses to people who really just want a job.

Working from home can be a wonderful thing, if you understand the risks and rewards involved in having your own business. If you don’t understand the difference between a business and a job, then you will think that all work from home businesses are scams.

Have fun, and good luck!

By: James Hagarty

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If You Work at Home, You’re a Special Breed

It takes a special kind of person to work at home successfully. You must be highly motivated and self-motivated because you’re not going to have a boss keeping on top of you to make certain your work gets done. When things are going well, it’s easy to work from home. But remember, things aren’t always going to be a bed of roses, so there are several things you must consider if you plan to work at home rather than in a traditional office. Working at home can be one of the most gratifying experiences. You don’t have to face daily traffic jams, you don’t have to deal with office politics, you don’t have to worry about hating your boss.

When you work at home, you’re not competing with anyone but yourself and the goals you set. But you should be aware of some pitfalls of working at home, which can make your experience slightly less blissful than you anticipated. If you have children, you must set specific and firm guidelines about when they can come into your work space. Ideally, you have an office set aside for yourself—an office with a door that you can put “Busy At Work” signs on that are a clue to your children not to interrupt you. Remember, one of the aspects of working at home was probably the idea that you could spend more time with your spouse and children, so you’ll have to search for a happy medium in an attempt to make everyone happy.

Working at home isn’t for everyone. You can tell yourself you won’t miss those pesky co-workers or that irritating boss, but you might surprise yourself. Some people simply cannot take the isolation that comes from working at home. In fact, people all over the country are beginning to pay for the privilege of working out of an office. They miss social interaction so much that they are renting cubicles and tables, along with others who could be working at home, simply to be with other people. It’s called co-working and it’s a growing trend throughout the country. One of the biggest personality traits that could spell disaster for someone

working from home is the fine art of procrastination. No doubt there are people out there who work from with manicured lawns and spotless houses because they’re so good at seeing things to do other than their job. You must be able to ignore the carpet that needs vacuuming or those blinds that need replacing. Do that stuff on your off time. Set specific hours for work and don’t dare do anything other than that in those hours. Even if it’s two solid hours of work, you’ll be surprised just how much you can achieve by ignoring that voice in your head that

tells you the oven needs cleaning. Lastly, avoid the temptation of volunteering for errands that you used to do on weekends, but now that you are working from home seem so vital. If you need to get things done, do them on your lunch break. And don’t let others in your family take advantage of you just because you don’t get in your car and drive to an office every day. Working from home is a wonderful experience . . . if you let it be.

By: Aramis

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