How To Find Legitimate Work at Home Jobs
The promise of a work at home job is alluring, and working at home can become a reality, but you'll have to approach finding any legitimate work at home job
the same way you would find a work at the office job. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
You wouldn't go after job listings for "real" or work at the office jobs that sounded over the top unbelievable - jobs with $5000 a week incomes that are
"once in a lifetime opportunities". So don't go after jobs like that when you're looking online for a legitimate work at home job.
But you can look in similar places for your work at home gig. Try Monster.com, Craigs List, CareerBuilder, MediaBistro, and Yahoo! Hot Jobs. Search for
"work at home" or "telecommuting" work and you'll find quite a few listings. Be sure to have your resume up to snuff - just because you'll be able to
work in your pajamas doesn't mean you want to make a pajama impression.
Do your homework about the company, the job, and the sort of work you'll be doing. No sense getting a work at home job to escape a job you hate, only to turn
around two weeks later and find you hate your new work at home job. Its particularly important to learn about the company you'll be working for. Even doing a
simple online search will turn up some info. Check the Better Business Bureau - is this a respectable company? Do they pay their employees on time? Do they have a
rapid rate of turnover for their work at home jobs? If you can find a current employee to talk to,
all the better.
Don't just limit your searches to "work at home", either. Look for "telecommuting" and freelance opportunities. Elance.com and Guru.com have vast listings of
freelance work - most of which can be done from anywhere in the world. It will cost you $20-$200 to be able to bid on jobs, and you'll lose a good 8% or more to
service fees, but there's a ton of legitimate work at home jobs online. And Elance and Guru are just the top two sites.
Don't pay $1 for any list of companies looking to hire people for work at home jobs. Its a scam. And especially don't get into any work at home setup where you
have to pay for supplies, or information up front in order to do the job. Remember, even though this is the internet, most of the things that apply to
"real-world" job seeking apply to "work at home" job seeking. That means that anyone offering a "100% guarantee" that you'll find work has just marked themselves
as a scam artist - no job hires everybody to shows up, no matter what, with a 100% guarantee. Even the Army turns people away.
Be very, very wary of commission-based work. No matter how much some super-salesman has made, keep in mind what you can make. If you don't have sales experience (and, frankly,
if you're not a whiz-kid salesperson) don't let the pushers of these programs even finish their sentence - keep looking for real work. The legitimate job
opportunities are out there, but they won't come with a loud mouthed salesman. They'll be found the way jobs are usually found - with research, persistance, a
little bit of luck and good timing.
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