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6-30-2010 Work at Home Jobs for Moms

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BECOMING A FULL-TIME WORK AT HOME MOM?

Have you taken the Work at Home Quiz yet?


Proof that Legitimate Work at Home Opportunities Exist!


NOTE: Some work at home jobs for moms may require applicants to pay for fingerprinting or other activities relating to security clearance. However, beware of potential employers requiring application fees and other suspicious fees during a hiring process. Also, we are only posting leads for work at home jobs for moms that appear elsewhere on the web. Unless otherwise noted, we are not affiliated with any of the employers listed below, nor do we hold any responsibility for the legitimacy or accuracy of any of the following work from home opportunities:

June 30, 2010

Freelance Writing and Editing Work at Home Jobs for Moms

WiseGeek Freelance Writer

Content Writers Wanted

Gossip Blogger

Tech Writer

Danish Speaking Writer

P/T GMAT Practice Test Writer

Minutes Meeting Writer (Vancouver)

Content Writer (Phoenix)

Social Media, Web and Tech Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Web Producer (Virginia ~ Telework [i.e. work from home] options available)

Software Engineer (Austin or Telecommute)

Software Developer

Network Admin (South Jersey)

Drupal Web Producer

Multiple Web Developers Needed

Windows Application Programmer

Experienced Web Developer

JAVA Architect/Engineer

Chinese Speaking Internet Search Consultant (Lionbridge)

Telephone and Call Center Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Inside Sales/Telemarketing

Call Center/Customer Service Reps

Reservationist (Oahu)

Clerical and Virtual Assistant Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Bankruptcy Document Preparer

Experienced Abstractor

Assistant (Southern Maine/Southern New Hampshire)

Billing Assistant

Human Resources Manager

Misc. Telecommute/Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Knowledge Management Professional

Research Assistant

Telecommunications Analyst (New York)

Native German, French, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew and Chinese Speakers Needed

Turning Day Jobs Into Work From Home Opportunities

As technology continues to advance, we predict that work from home opportunities will too. If you are currently employed, but would like to stay home with your family, you’ve come to the right place to assist you in finding work at home jobs for moms. However, also consider presenting your employer with the idea of working from home in your current position. While she may not take to the idea overnight, if you clearly present your case and prove yourself worthy of such consideration, you may find that your work out of the home job could be transformed into a telecommute position.

Talking to Your Employer About Telecommuting

If you have a job that you can perform at home and you believe you’re ready to join the telecommute brigade, begin by mustering  your courage and asking your employer for permission to work one or two days per week from home during a brief trial period. She’ll surely need more convincing, and the following benefits of telecommuting may help:

Telecommuting Benefits That Your Boss Will Love:

  • Allowing employees to work from home decreases levels of job dissatisfaction and increases employee retention. Tread carefully with this one, as you don’t want to give the impression that you’re tired of your job, but do present it as a benefit, overall.
  • Employees who telecommute help create a greener environment by reducing carbon emissions, reducing office energy costs and reducing overall oil consumption.
  • Telecommuting saves on overhead costs (less space is needed, as well as fewer resources used).
  • When faced with intense weather barriers or natural disasters, employees who work from home are often able to continue in that capacity without severe interruptions. (No more sick days used due to being snowed in or due to blocked roads, etc.)
  • Employees who work from home tend to take fewer days off from work due to illness or family emergencies.
  • Work at home jobs for moms tend to be less stressful and afford workers the flexibility that they desire in a work schedule, thus decreasing the chances of losing employees due to job-related stress.

If your boss needs further convincing or doubts your claims, simply direct her to the Benefits of Telework, published by the U.S. General Services Administration and the Telework Exchange. In this 14-page pdf report, she can read all about the pros associated with work from home opportunities and, hopefully, will open the door for other employees to enjoy these benefits, as well.

Taking an Inch When You Want a Mile

Don’t expect her to embrace the idea right away and don’t expect her to allow you to work a full 40 hour work week at home right off the bat. But even if she agrees to let you work at home a few days each week, doing so can make a huge difference in your life. As business owners and other employers become aware of the benefits, as well as the growing trend in work at home jobs for moms, we just may find an increase in traditional positions making the switch to telecommuting positions, after all.

If you’re an employee who has managed to turn your work out of the home job into a work at home job, we’d love to hear from you. Any thought or tips for those wishing to follow in your footsteps?

Thanks for tuning in and don’t forget to check out today’s JOB LEADS before you go!

Telecommute: Mean What You Say and Say What You Mean

What You See…

Finding legitimate telecommute jobs takes a concentrated effort. We know this because we put forth such an effort every weekday, as we gather and post leads on the latest work at home jobs for moms. With our finger on the pulse of the home-based job market, we often find work from home opportunities among the most unexpected careers. We’re talking about job descriptions that can catch you totally off guard like work at home pharmacy jobs, triage nursing by phone or even online jurors. While few ever imagined that any of these duties could be performed in a telecommute position, they are and we’ll continue to tell you about them as they cross our radar.

And What You Don’t See…

However, we also come across ads for telecommute positions that you’ll never see here. By all appearances these are legitimate jobs and respectable careers, but we don’t provide leads to them for one reason and one reason only: they aren’t real telecommute jobs!

I can sense your confusion, so let me explain.

For some odd reason, a lot of employers list jobs as being telecommute positions when they’re anything but. I mean, can a cab driver really telecommute? And, if so, how? Or what about a cook, an auto mechanic or a security guard? How on earth can a person be hired to drive a car or guard a business while working from home? Crazy, right? Yet, each of these are jobs that we frequently see advertised as telecommuting positions. I suspect that some employers are confused about what telecommuting means or perhaps the people posting these ads are confusing the word telecommute with telecommunicate (which still wouldn’t make sense in most cases, but whatever).

What You Need to Know

Regardless of how they occur, we thought it important to bring this oft-made error to your attention for a few reasons. For one, we want you to know that you’re not crazy. Yes, the word telecommute refers to working from home and, yes, it is a keyword you should continue to use in your job searching efforts. We understand that it’s frustrating to have to filter through these “errors”, but it’s just something you’re going to have to live with while you’re between gigs.

Beyond Words

We also want to warn you not to take for granted that a job is a work at home job simply because it’s advertised as a telecommute position. Don’t be surprised when you apply for what you think is a home-based position only to find that the employer actually expects you to report for a 40 hour work week on site! Therefore, read ads very carefully and look for other clues within the text to be sure that it is a real work from home opportunity. And never be afraid to ask if something just doesn’t seem right.

Please Stop!

And if you’re an employer, please PLEASE don’t list jobs as telecommute positions if they’re not really work from home opportunities! The mere mention of this word makes us all giddy inside and it’s really not fun to discover that our dream work at home job is actually a work at “your home” or a work at “your home office” job. When it comes to telecommute opportunities, we’d like nothing more than for you to mean what you say and say what you mean.

Work at Home Jobs for Moms 6-29-2010

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BECOMING A FULL-TIME WORK AT HOME MOM?

Have you taken the Work at Home Quiz yet?

Proof that Legitimate Work at Home Opportunities Exist!

NOTE: Some work at home jobs for moms may require applicants to pay for fingerprinting or other activities relating to security clearance. However, beware of potential employers requiring application fees and other suspicious fees during a hiring process. Also, we are only posting leads for work at home jobs for moms that appear elsewhere on the web. Unless otherwise noted, we are not affiliated with any of the employers listed below, nor do we hold any responsibility for the legitimacy or accuracy of any of the following work from home opportunities:

Freelance Writing and Editing Work at Home Jobs for Moms

French Proofreader (Auburn Hills, MI)

Write Practice Math Tests

Pharmaceutical Scientific Writer

Copy Writer and Greeting Card Writer (2 jobs~same company)

Spanish Editor (Print and voice)

Social Media, Web and Tech Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Video Editor/Motion Graphic Artist

Overnight Photo Editor/Tech (San Francisco)

Web Programmer/Designer

Java J2EE Engineers

Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 CRM Consultant (Atlanta)

Instructional Designers/eLearning Specialists (Atlanta)

.NET API Developer (Etobicoke)

Experienced Web Designer

DotNetNuke/MSSQL Developer

Web Designer/Programmer

PHP Programmer Needed

Telephone and Call Center Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Appointment Setter

Appointment Setter

Clerical and Virtual Assistant Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Office Manager (Los Angeles – Partial telecommute position)

P/T Bookkeeper

Misc. Telecommuting/Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Litigation Attorneys Wanted to Work from Home

Experienced Medical Provider Contract Negotiator

Radio News Reporter (California)

Work at Home Jobs for Moms 6-28-2010

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BECOMING A FULL-TIME WORK AT HOME MOM?

Have you taken the Work at Home Quiz yet?

Proof that Legitimate Work at Home Opportunities Exist!

NOTE: Some work at home jobs for moms may require applicants to pay for fingerprinting or other activities relating to security clearance. However, beware of potential employers requiring application fees and other suspicious fees during a hiring process. Also, we are only posting leads for work at home jobs for moms that appear elsewhere on the web. Unless otherwise noted, we are not affiliated with any of the employers listed below, nor do we hold any responsibility for the legitimacy or accuracy of any of the following work from home opportunities:

Freelance Writing and Editing Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Article/Web Content Writer (Columbus, OH)

Proposal Writer

Green Blogger

Blogger for Imagined Magazine

Mobile Tech Blogger/Editor

Copy Editor (Manhattan)

Copy Editor (Washington D.C.)

Social Media, Web and Tech Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Technical Support Representative

Web Design Consultant

Small Web Design Project

Web Software Engineer

Web Application Developer

Social Media/Gaming Paid Internship

Graphic Designer

Telephone and Call Center Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Appointment Setter/Lead Generator

Appointment Setter

At Home Professional (Cloud 10)

Transcription Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Medical Transcriptionists

Teaching and Online Tutoring Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Online Teachers

Telecommuting/Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Sales Representative

P/T Accountant

EEO Investigator

Guerilla Tips for Avoiding Interruptions

Ok, so you’ve read and implemented our tips on avoiding interruptions, but your friends and family just refuse to leave you alone while you’re working from home. Now, it’s time to try our guerilla tips for shutting everyone up and out while you get your work done:

1. Keep working ~ I recall interrupting a reporter at the Los Angeles Times while he was hard at work on a story, undoubtedly rushing against a deadline. However, I needed his attention and could not wait, so I approached his desk fully expecting him to turn his attention to me. Not only did he call me a pest and quite pointedly tell me to scat, but he never stopped typing and never looked up from his keyboard. I persisted in speaking with him while he persisted in ignoring me. Ultimately, I did get him to look up for a second (and only a second!) to acknowledge my issue, but that was only because I had to (I had my own deadlines and needed his attention). However, most people are not as persistent and can take a strong hint like this to mean that your work from home job is your top priority during working hours.

2. Your speakerphone is your friend ~ In work at home jobs for moms, the telephone is sometimes a big part of our job description. If powering down isn’t an option for you, consider hands-free conversations as your next best option. If you have long-winded clients or personal acquaintances who tend to interrupt you by phone, simply place them on speakerphone whenever they call. Most people hate having conversations by speaker and will most likely be in a hurry to end a call once they discover that their conversation is being publicly broadcasted. (Doesn’t hurt to place the phone right next to your keyboard so that the caller can hear the sounds of you working and feel free to sound a little distracted when you speak just to emphasize the point. Hey, these are guerilla tactics, remember!)

3. Read the signs ~ Place a sign on your front door that lets visitors know that, “If you did not phone, I’m not at home” and remain engaged in your work from home job while ignoring drop-in guests during your business hours. Later, you can explain that you placed the sign on your front door in an attempt to avoid interruptions and distractions. Your visitor may be slightly offended, but they will understand that work at home jobs for moms are serious business and not to be taken lightly.

4. Relocate ~ If your spouse or children are too much of a distraction while you’re working from home, consider packing up and moving shop to your nearest coffee house (with a Wi-Fi connection, of course). Be sure to take a set of headphones with you to block the sounds of other customers, put some relaxing music on and enjoy a few hours of uninterrupted working bliss.

5. Use an egg timer ~ When callers or visitors interrupt, immediately reach for your egg timer. Set it for 5 minutes and kindly let your intruder know that you are doing so because you can only spare a few minutes for their issue. Be polite about this and then give them your full attention until the timer goes off. When the alarm sounds, be firm in telling them that you will have to continue this conversation after hours (this is also a good time to reiterate your working hours to them, so that they are clear about your schedule).

Work at home jobs for moms are no different than outside the home jobs. Just because you work from home, does not mean that you are there for everyone’s personal whims. Of course, you must take regular breaks and be available for your family if they truly need you, but for frivolous interruptions, these guerilla tips for avoiding interruptions and distractions can go a long way to keep them at a minimum.

If you have other tips to share, we’d love to hear about them in the comments section below.

Work From Home Opportunities: How You Can Help Fight Fraud

In the past, we’ve discussed how work from home opportunities get a bum rap because of scam artists who advertise online. We’ve done our best to highlight the difference between legitimate work at home jobs for moms and work at home ad scams. What we want to do today, however, is share with you how you can help stop the amount of bad ads appearing on the web and, perhaps, even prevent other work at home moms from being taken in by these conniving schemes.

Here are a few tips for blowing the whistle on work at home scams:

1. Flag scams. If you search for jobs on CraigsList and encounter an ad that violates CraigsList’s Terms of Use, do not hesitate to click the “Flag” link located in a box near the top right of the ad. Ditto for our job leads and other sites where work at home jobs for moms are advertised.

2. Familiarize yourself with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Internet security warnings and, as you find them, report fraudulent work from home opportunities directly to them for further investigation.

3. If you’ve been victimized by a fraudulent ad, it’s possible that other moms either have been or are at risk of being victimized as they continue to hunt for work at home jobs for moms. Because of this, as soon as you realize that you’ve been bamboozled, report crooked individuals and companies to the Internet Crime Complaint Center in order to prevent others from taking the same fall.

4. Spread the word. If you frequent work at home forums, blogs and social networks, be sure to warn others about ads, schemes or companies that you know to be fraudulent. Word travels fast on the web, but crooks count on your silence to keep them in business. Even if you’ve never been taken advantage of, but you have spotted or know how to spot a work at home job scam, you’d be doing the entire community of telecommuters a favor by naming names. Of course, if you keep silent, you’re doing the scammers a favor, instead. Whose side are you on?

If anyone has any additional tips to offer, please do so in the comments section below. Together, I truly believe we can make a difference!

Work at Home Jobs for Moms: Where Do I Begin?

Technology has made work at home jobs for moms more popular than ever before. Although moms have always worked at home, making money online has made it possible for women to draw from the best of both worlds. Able to stay at home with her children, today’s woman is also able to contribute to her household’s budget at the same time. Many women even maintain positions as the main breadwinner in a family strictly by working at home. As news of work from home opportunities spread, women comb the internet with hopes of finding suitable work at home jobs for moms, but find themselves overwhelmed with the information and options they soon discover. Not long after realizing the numerous possibilities of telecommuting, it’s not uncommon for moms to ask, “Where’s the best place to start?”

Your Personal Starting Point

We understand this feeling and are here to help. With choices like social media jobs, virtual assisting, transcription jobs, online tutoring and a long list of other work at home jobs for moms, it can be hard to decide upon one job market to pursue. We suggest that you first take some quiet time and assess your skills, talents and past work experiences. What is it that you do better than most people you know? What would you spend time doing if you didn’t have to worry about earning an income? What kind of favors do you find that friends and family call upon you for when they need help? What kinds of tasks did you enjoy performing at your last job? In what areas have you received any special awards or accolades? Reflect on these things for a while — write them down even — and you’ll likely find yourself leaning towards a certain type of work.

What Makes You Cringe?

And don’t be afraid to focus on some of your shortcomings or identifying certain tasks that you make a special effort to avoid. For instance, if you are painfully shy or are not comfortable speaking to others by phone, make note of this and strike call center jobs from your list of possibilities. If you’d rather get a tooth pulled than write several hundred words each day, duly note this and strike freelance writing jobs off of your job search list. The point is that, just because you may find out that certain work at home jobs for moms exist, it’s probably not a good idea for you to pursue any and all of these simply because they’re advertised. There are enough work from home opportunities in the world for you not to have to settle for just any one of them in order to make money online. Instead, be honest with yourself from the beginning and you’re a lot more likely to find a remote opportunity that you enjoy and that you’ll perform well in.

Now Your Job Search Begins

Once you’ve begun to narrow down your interests and skills, you’re ready to begin a job search. We offer plenty of leads on work at home jobs for moms here each weekday, but you can also search for work from home opportunities that we may have missed on your own. All in all, we want you to feel empowered in knowing that legitimate opportunities to work from home do exist, and we don’t want you to feel overwhelmed with all of the information and options available to you. Take your time, start with a little honest soul searching and then pursue your work at home goals with a passion.

Additional Reading and Resources:

How to Work From Home by Demi
Work at Home Mom Quiz
Work at Home Money
“How To” Business Guides

Legitimate Work at Home Jobs for Moms DO Exist! ~ by Laura M. Sands

It drives me crazy to hear people make blanket statements that all work at home jobs for moms are scams. Or that, even if there are a few legitimate work from home opportunities, at least 98% of all work at home jobs are scams. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve tried to convince people otherwise, only for them to turn a deaf ear and continue spreading foolishness.

Fighting Lies With Leads

Generalizations like these are why we work hard to post work at home job leads right here on this site. Everything from freelance writing to triage nursing by phone is represented in our leads. Although we are clear in letting you know that we can’t vouch for every single one of the work at home jobs for moms posted, it is our firm belief that we share legitimate work from home opportunities on the regular.

What Does the Federal Government Say About Making Money at Home?

While doing a little research on the origins of this so-called 98% statistic, I ran across an article written by the hardworking folks over at the WhyDoWork blog. The article observes that, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, work at home jobs do not existwell, at least on their niche job board. This may not seem like a huge deal to some, but as much as the other niches listed there, people employed by work from home opportunities represent a growing segment of employed Americans. It is amazing, then, that this niche isn’t featured on the DOL’s site. Now, no one’s calling this a conspiracy or anything, but it’s this kind of silence that leads job seekers to believe that legitimate work at home jobs for moms are nothing short of a myth.

The U.S. Government Offers Legitimate Work From Home Opportunities

The fact is that the DOL knows all about legitimate work from home opportunities. After all, as reported in the Department of Labor’s 2009 report to congress, the Status of Telework in the Federal Government (pdf), 102,900 federal employees work from home! Among a healthy library of information available on the federal government’s website, a very informative report about medical transcription jobs clearly states that many transcriptionists work from home. Ads for medical transcription jobs and training, particularly those programs that are home based, can be found on the web. Yet when people discuss these and other work at home jobs for moms, they often do so as though this is not a reputable employment niche.

Though telecommuting jobs are not featured on their niche jobs list, detailed analyses of other other legitimate work from home jobs appearing elsewhere on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ website are:

Interpreters

Travel Agents

Freelance Writers and Editors

Data Entry Operators

Systems Analysts

Virtual Assistants

And more!

State Governments Encourage Legitimate Work From Home Opportunities

And it’s not just the federal government that’s down with work at home jobs for moms. On page 36 of the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statics’ January, 2010 Monthly Labor Review, it is reported that Virginia created a Commonwealth Office of Telework Promotion, which not only assists employers in developing special programs and projects for work at home employees, but that new legislation also provides an incentive for more employers to allow employees to work from home. So it would appear that, not only do legitimate work at home jobs for moms exist, but governmental authorities would like to see even more legitimate work from home opportunities created in the future.

Legitimate Work From Home Opportunities in Corporate America

Consider for a moment that large corporate employers, such as Jet Blue, American Airlines, AstraZeneca, Cisco Systems, S. C. Johnson & Sons and Qualcomm all offer part and full time work at home jobs for moms and others. And of these, several appear on the list of the top 10 out of 82 best companies that allow their employees to work from home. No matter how many times people say that 98% of all work at home jobs are scams, there are an estimated 2.5 million employees who are making money at home and can successfully argue in favor of legitimate work from home opportunities.

The Origins of the Myth that 98% of All Work at Home Jobs are Scams

Though I’m still looking for the first person to cite this statistic and the research that led to this conclusion, I’m not all too optimistic that this information actually exists. What I have found, however, is an ABC News broadcast detailing the underbelly of this employment sector by shining a much needed spotlight on scam artists who prey on innocent people, such as those  seeking work at home jobs for moms. In the two-part video, it is stated that there’s a 54:1 ratio of shady work at home job leads. Please note that this ratio refers to advertised leads and NOT the jobs themselves. Yes, the Internet is rife with slimy leads, but this does NOT mean that 98% of all work at home jobs are scams! There is a distinct difference between job “leads” and actual jobs. People are not making this distinction, unfortunately, and I suspect that this is where the myth has taken root. See the report for yourself by watching part 1 and part 2 of this very informative video. Also notice that the special report ends with a previously scammed victim finding a work from home job. In a nutshell, the investigation uncovered that work from home opportunities are real, even though an enormous amount of advertised job leads are scams.

Others are Making Money at Home and So Can You

My point in sharing all of this with you is so that you’ll know better when people tell you that you’re wasting your time researching legitimate work at home jobs for moms. You are not. What you are doing is preparing yourself to join an intelligent group of employees who are able to save time, money and energy while making money at home. Work at home jobs for moms are part of a highly coveted employment niche…even if the federal government is slow to honor it as such.

NetWork Expo for Work at Home Jobs for Moms

If you’re anywhere near the Herndon, Virginia area this weekend, make it your business to check the NetWork Expo out. Specializing in part-time and work at home jobs for moms, the expo is bringing legitimate work from home employers directly to you. While there, you’ll be able to get the 4-1-1 on who’s hiring and have the opportunity to speak with company representatives face-to-face.

Who

NetWork Expo

What

Job fair for part-time and work at home employers

Where

Hilton Washington Dulles

13869 Park Center Road

Herndon, Virginia 20171

When

June 13, 2010 (11a~5p)

On-site childcare is provided and, although the admission is a very affordable $5 bucks, you can register for the NetWork Expo for free online using the discount code: JobProsper.

For more information, visit the NetWork Expo website.