Work From Home Information

Unlike Network Marketing and Multi-level businesses there are many other types of work from home businesses that are stand alone. My wife is a career medical biller and now works from home for one of the many companies offering medical billing as a home based business. From licking envelopes to online auctions, we will take a look at the top income earning home based businesses.

Work From Home Job Searching

To get started, consider, for now, your job search as your job. Dedicate as many hours per week to your search for employment as you would spend working. If you're looking for full-time work, you should be spending full-time hours seeking employment. Networking remains the top way to find a job and it does work. Develop contacts - friends, family, college alumni, even the other job seekers who participate in the Job Searching Discussion Forum - anyone who might help generate information and job leads. You can take a direct approach and ask for job leads or try a less formal approach and ask for information and advice. Contact everyone you know and tell them you want to work from home. You may be surprised by the people they know and the leads you can generate.

Work at Home Job Sites

Visit the specialized sites that focus work-from-home jobs or in freelance opportunities. At 2work-at-home.com you can search jobs by category, keyword, and location. You'll also find a list of telecommuting friendly companies. Check out the company web sites for current openings. Free Work @ Home Jobs has job listings according to category - Accounting/Finance, Administrative/Clerical, Sales, Web Development, and Writing. Moneymakingmommy.com also lists jobs according to category. There is also a list of companies that hire online workers, as well as information on home business ideas and freelance jobs. Wahm.com's lengthy list of job openings is updated regularly. These are just some of the sites you'll find in our work at home jobs directory. Look through all the sites and remember to take advantage of the Resume Posting section, if the site has one. That way companies seeking employers will be able to find your resume.

Next, search the online job banks using keywords like "work at home" "telecommute" and "telecommuting". Searching Monster, for example, using "telecommuting" as a keyword generates almost 200 listings. "Work at home" generates close to a 1000 positions. Searching HotJobs and FlipDog brought similar results. Go through all the Job Bank sites, starting with the top sites, then moving on to the smaller and niche sites.

This is a time when it make sense not to simply search the web search engines. I've found that searching for "work at home" most often brings up scams or web sites that want to charge you for providing "real" work at home jobs or for "proven successful" home business information. Rather, stick with the sites that focus on employment.

Be prepared to apply online. Have a resume and cover letter ready to send. Depending on the type of employment you're looking for you may also need work samples to send to prospective employers. Track where you've applied. Many of the same positions are listed on multiple sites, so you'll want to be sure not to duplicate your efforts.

Before you jump on an opportunity that sounds wonderful, review our tips and suggestions for avoiding scams, and for successfully working from home.

Tips for Avoiding Work From Home Scams: There are more work from home job scams than there are real work from job listings, so, job seekers need to be really careful when searching for and evaluating work at home job listings. Presume that the position is a scam, unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary. Take the time to research the position, the company including talking to other people who work there. That way, you wont be scammed and you will be using your best efforts and best judgement to find a legitimate work from home job.

If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Evaluate every listing you look at very carefully. Find out if there's a salary or if you're paid on commission. Ask how often are you paid. Ask what equipment (hardware/software) you need to provide.Find out what support the company provides?

If you get an unsolicited email telling you that a company that you have never heard of wants to hire you for a job where you don't need experience or skills and can make a lot of money, trash it. There's lots of out there, some of which are personalized and sound quite legitimate.

Be carefully of listings that guarantee you wealth or financial success or that will help you get rich fast from home. They will probably do none of the above.

Do not send money! Legitimate employers don't charge you to get started or for anything else.

Also, don't send money for work at home directories or start-up kits. Free information and job listings are available online.

Ask for references - request a list of other employees or contractors to see how this has worked for them.

Work at Home Suggestions:

Be flexible - consider freelance work or projects as well as full-time employment. At least it will get you started.

Employed now? Ask your employer about the possibility of work some hours from home.

Be patient and be prepared to spend a lot of time weeding through scams and junking listings to get to legitimate openings.

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