Work at Home Now: The No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Your Perfect Home-Based Job, Avoiding Scams, and Making a Great Living

by Christine Durst, Michael Haaren

Overview

Many legitimate home-based jobs and projects can be found online, but trustworthy guidance is scarce. Worse, with a 56-to-1 “scam ratio” in work-at-home ads, the terrain is a minefield of fraud. Nevertheless, customer service agents, researchers, test scorers, tutors, writers, and concierges are just a few of the many people regularly hired to work from home. A growing number of Fortune 500 companies, including UnitedHealth Group, American Express, and Northrop Grumman, also hire home-based personnel.

In Work at Home Now, you'll learn:

• The top insider tips on "good" and "bad" Google search terms.
• How to find the "needles in the haystack" on Craigslist, Indeed, Monster, CareerBuilder, and other big sites.
• Where the real jobs for mystery shoppers, transcriptionists and similar part-time specialties can be found.
• Scam-spotting tips that even law enforcement doesn't know.

Including interviews with hiring managers and successful home-based workers, Work at Home Now is the ultimate guide to finding the work-at-home job or project you want most.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781601630919
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	11/01/2009
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Christine Durst and Michael Haaren co-founded Staffcentrix (www.staffcentrix.com), a leader in VA training, and the International Virtual Assistants Association (www.ivaa.org), the industry's premier regulatory organization. They appear often in such media as Business Week, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and publish frequently on virtual career issues. Chris resides with her two children in Woodstock, Connecticut, and Mike resides in Sterling, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 Work-at-Home at a Glance 13

Chapter 2 Are You Ready to Work at Home? 17

Chapter 3 Convincing Your Boss to Let You Work From Home 35

Chapter 4 Developing Your "BS" (Big Scam) Radar 47

Chapter 5 Good and Bad Work-at-Home Job Search Terms 59

Chapter 6 Jobs by Type and Where to Find Them 67

Chapter 7 Finding Work-at-Home Jobs on the "Big" Job Boards 171

Chapter 8 Finding Home-Based Jobs on Job Aggregator Sites 185

Chapter 9 Networking for Jobs, Allies, and Friends 195

Chapter 10 Virtual and Telework-Friendly Companies 205

Chapter 11 Freelancing at Home Gig-to-Gig 221

Chapter 12 Making a Little Money on the Side 231

Chapter 13 Your Telework Resume and Interview 247

Chapter 14 Tips From the Trenches 259

Conclusion 269

Appendix: Websites Mentioned in This Book 271

Index 283

About the Authors 287

Editorial Reviews

"Work at Home Now is the ultimate guide for teleworkers. Its smart, practical advice—and trove of great resources and tips—will be valuable to anyone hoping for the freedom and challenge of working at home." —Daniel H. Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind

Daniel H. Pink