By Cheryline Lawson
The search engines are a good place to start. Use the search engines to find
out everything:
Yahoo
Altavista
Hotbot
Lycos
Infoseek
Goto.com
Northern Light
AskJeeves.com
WebHelp.com etc
Make sure you use keywords that will help you to come up with specific
topics that you are trying to locate on telecommuting.
Type keywords like: work at home, work from home, telecommute,
telecommuting, telecommuting jobs, telecommuting message boards, home
employment, employment, jobs, free jobs, telecommuting resources,
telecommuting tips, homeworkers, home-based, working from home, home jobs or
you can type in the specific position you are looking for, like typists,
administrative assistant, medical transcriptionist, medical transcriber,
programmer, writer, editor, mystery shopper, sales, graphic designer, web
designer, etc.
Subscribe to any telecommuting or work at home ezine. Type the word
"Telecommuting Ezines or Home Business Ezines" in your search engine and see
what you come up with. Make sure these Ezines are free, unless you want a
paid subscription.
A Free Ezine is just as good as a paid one. I would recommend:
These ezines deliver resources and work at home job listings each week or
month, depending on when they are published and subscription is free. You
will receive free telecommuting job listing as a subscriber.
Search for work at home forums, discussion lists, job newsgroups and message
boards. You just may find a few jobs that have been posted by employers but
be careful. There are some scammers out there who go from message board to
message board posting and soliciting dishonest work at home plans. Don't
waste your time on this. You will know them. If it sounds too good to be
true...BEWARE!!
Set up a web site, a simple one, where you can advertise your skills,
experience and expertise. If you do not know how to create a web site,
visit one of the free web hosting service on the Internet and all you do is
type in information and your web site will be automatically created for you.
To find a free web hosting service, go to the search engines and type "free
web site." Sign up with one or two of them to see which one is easier to
use to create your web page. Remember it does not have to be a fancy site
and make sure you post an article or two about your expertise that will be
noticed when someone visits your web site. If you prove that you know what
you are talking about, people will notice you.
Newsgroups and discussion lists are great for posting a free report on a
particular subject of interest to a member of the newsgroup. Enter into the
discussion by posting your free report. Try not to advertise anything in
your report. Just type your name and web address at the bottom of report,
in case, the person would like to contact you or learn more about your
expertise. Make sure to go back from time to time to post different topics
and expert advise. This may take a while to get any feedback but don't stop
trying. After you have established yourself as an expert, someone will
notice you and take a visit to your web site. You might even get some word
of mouth advertisement from your newsgroup counterparts. You can start your
own telecommuting forum at http://www.delphi.com. You would be surprised at
how many interesting visitors you would acquire.
If you are a Medical Transcriptionist, the best place to start your search
is http://www.mtjobs.com. There are many hospitals in your community, that
need medical transcribers and who will possibly consider telecommuting. If
you are a programmer, editor, writer or web designer, you have a slight
edge. There are a number of sites listed in the previous chapters that will
help to make your search easier.
The most difficult work at home job to find is a typist and one of the
reasons is that most people know how to type and a lot of people are looking
for typing jobs to do at home. In other words, the demand is more than the
supply. http://freedisks.com is a great site that does have a list of typing
jobs to choose from. Here are a few more as well:
Don't be discouraged though, because there are still companies that do need
your help. It's just going to take you a little longer than usual, unless
you get real lucky or you spend more time in your search.
Get on a mailing list. Type the word "telecommuting mailing list or work at
home mailing list" in your search engine and see what you come up with. Be
careful not to join too many mailing list. Your email account will sometimes
be bombarded with junk email messages.
Another thing that worked for me is browsing through the job section in the
Online Newspapers. Type the word "online newspaper" in your search engine. A
list of online newspapers will come up at different sites and will include
the state you live in. Find the job section and browse. Some will allow you
to do advanced searches. Then you can type in the word "telecommute" or
"work from home." This was a very great source for me. Please try this for
yourself.
There are no magic answers to this. It does take a lot of research and a lot
of work. Our jobs are updated bi-weekly and sometimes weekly depending on
how many jobs are available for that particular week.
I urge you not to give up your search for that great telecommuting job. It
is the same when you are searching for a day job. Just when you think not,
there it is. You landed a great job. It is the same with telecommuting. It
is out there but you must make up your mind to find it.
Companies don't usually advertise work at home jobs in your local newspaper
as they would a day job but I find that they advertise it online, which is
the best place to start looking as we have already discussed. Approaching a
company is a bold step that you may want to take if you are desperate to
find a work at home job but make sure you are prepared, that means you have
great skills and you are equipped to work from home. Your local Temporary
agency may have work at home jobs. You never know. Try them. You may be
surprised.
Your search will be a test to see if you will be any good at telecommuting
because you will gain the perseverance and motivation necessary to do
telecommuting.
-- Excerpt from e-book by Cheryline Lawson and entitled "How to get
companies to hire you as an Independent Contractor." To purchase the book,
send an email to webmaster@internet-home-employment.net and ask for details
on this specific book. Also of interest to you would be another e-book
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