What’s Your Question Wednesday
November 14, 2007
Welcome to the first “What’s Your Question Wednesday“. This is going to be a weekly blog feature in which I’ll open it up for questions on a specific topic. All you need to do is leave your question in the comments field and I’ll answer each and every one of them.
This week let’s talk about:
Finding a job online.
If you have a question about how to find a job online please leave it in the comments field.
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What websites can I find legitimate work at home jobs?
I have been looking for a legitimate work at home position for nearly a year. I need to have a paycheck that I can count on. I am not interested in a commision type job. I am a better than average typist, have lots of customer service experience and am also familiar with the medical insurance and billing . do you have any suggestions?
Rosalind,
There aren’t many that post telecommuting only job leads. You can try www.wahm.com - join home job stops free newsletter at www.telecommutingmoms.com/hjs.html and of course my website at www.justonlinejobs.com —- all sites do their best to post legit jobs, but it can never be 100% guarenteed.
You can also use traditional jobn portals, such as monster.com, careerbuilder.com, beyond.com, hotjobs.com … etc. The best way to locate a legit job on these boards is to use very good keywords and avoid “work at home”.
Work at home usually pulls up scams, business opp’s, and junk…not always, but most of the time. Some other keywords that will usually result in better jobs are keywords you’ll find in jobs… such as “must have a home office, must be willing to work at home, will work as an indepdent contractor”…etc.
Be sure to use quotations around the keyword phrases so you pull up results with the exact phrases you’re searching for.
I hope this has helped
Nell Taliercio
I am starting a VA business the first of the year. Can you suggest any small jobs I can do or place I can go to get jobs to work my way up to opening day.
Pam,
I’d be sure you’re looking for jobs daily, sign up for any and all newsletters that send you job leads (besides mine here…you can try home job stops at www.telecommutingmoms.com/hjs.html), and look into the following companies.
www.allcustomcontent.com
www.workaholicsforhire.com
www.teamdoubleclick.com
www.alpineaccess.com
www.liveops.com
www.customloyal.com
Those are good companies and a nice place to start,
Wishing you the best!
Nell Taliercio
Tricia,
In order to prepare you for the life of a VA I’d suggest the following companies:
www.workaholics4hire.com
www.teamdoubleclick.com
www.allcustomcontent.com
You usually work a wide variety of projects, work project-by-project…it’s as close to what it’ll be like to own a VA business that you can get in a “job”.
Wishing you the best!
Nell Taliercio
PS
I received your email and will be responding later today
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I am just begining my search for a telecommuting job. This is very important in order to meet my current family need. I have applied for a job through a website named “Telecommuting Jobs” and was channeled into the website HEA. Is his a valid company? How do I know wher to apply for jobs with all of the scams out there?
Thank you
I’ve been a stay at home mom for quite some time and now I want to become a work at home mom. Are there any legit data entry jobs out there? I’m an excellent typist. Where do you suggest I begin to look, other than homejobstop or your website, justonlinejobs. I just began searching, but what are some great keywords
Susan,
I’ve not heard of that company and therefor cannot offer my opinion. If you’d like to post the link I could have a look.
Here is a link with a lot of scam information to help you know scams:
http://www.telecommutingmoms.com/workathomejobscams.html
Nell
Tina,
Data entry jobs are not easy to locate…legit ones even harder. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist, but a true data entry job is very hard to find.
That being said, you can grab your free copy of Data Entry Answers at www.dataentryanswers.com — this is an ebook I’ve put together to help those who want this type of work.
Some phrases you might want to you in your job search would be:
“must have home office”
“must be willing to telecommute”
“this is a telecommuting position”
“this is an independent contractor position”
Any type of keyword phrase that you’d find in the actual body of the job ad. Typing in “work at home” will usually yield you more scams than legit jobs.
I’m going put out an ebook about how to find a job online and offline, learning about scams, and other vital information about finding a job at home…soon.
Have you tried applying to the following places that’ll be able to offer you work that doesn’t involve the phone?
www.workaholics4hire.com
www.allcustomcontent.com
www.teamdoubleclick.com
Wishing you the best,
Nell Taliercio
I was just notified that I have an interview this morning with Team Double Click. Do you have any suggestions for preparing for the interview? I’m just entering the virtual world but have been an administrative assistant for many years.
Me again.
Well, it wasn’t until after the scheduled interview time that I see this is a weekly WEDNESDAY blog. Go figure! Only on a Monday….
I dialed in for the interview using Skype which kept telling me that I had mute selected - which I didn’t. In the mean time, I used another phone to make the call, but didn’t get an answer. While waiting on the phone, I went into my web cam properties and saw that the audio was reconfigured to the original settings when an update to Logitech’s software took place yesterday. I wonder if this will happen every time there’s an update to the software? Anyone else have this problem? I guess my original question about preparing for virtual interviews (telephone, web cam, email) still stands as I’m sure they are in my future. My thought now is that the virtual interviewee has to prepare even more so than in face to face interviews because the interviewer doesn’t have your ‘body language’ etc to know if your contemplating a response to their question or whatever. I suppose that dead air time on web or phone calls really stands out. So does words used such as the inevitable “ummmmm” or other sounds that occur during dead time. shifting of papers, etc.
OK, I think I’ll stop there (for now).