6 Amazing Secrets To Work At Home Success
By Vernette Carbon |
Are you a stay at home mom or dad who would like to work from home? Maybe you
have a job outside the home, but you’re tired of juggling your job and your
kids, especially when your child is sick and needs you.
You’d like to
work from home, but it seems as though there are no legitimate jobs out there.
You don’t really want to start a home-based business from scratch, but would
love to work from home.
Well let me tell you a little secret, knowledge
is power. And there are 15 strategies you must apply if you want to be
successful in landing a work at home job or contract These 15 strategies will
definitely help you beat out your competition.
Let me share with you 6
of the 15 strategies I’ve used and continue to use to increase my chances of
obtaining home-based jobs and contracts over and over again.
•1. You
Must Acquire A Specialized Skill
The secret to landing a home-based job or
independent contract and keeping it forever is to acquire a specialized skill,
or start a career in a field that is completely recession proof and in high
demand but has a low supply of skilled workers.
For instance, people
will always get sick. So therefore doctors will always need Medical
transcriptionists. Another example; companies will always have quarterly
meetings and will always need general transcriptionists to transcribe reports,
minutes, etc.
If you lose your home-based job today, you can apply for
another one tomorrow and land another job within a week or two. How am I so sure
about this? Well I’ve done it over and over again as a general transcriptionist,
and Cyber Agent (Call Center Customer Service Rep) for the past five and a half
years. The jobs and independent contracts in these fields are in
abundance.
As an example, let’s look at Medical Transcriptionist. Just go
to your search engine and type in the keywords, “Medical Transcription
Companies.” You will see hundreds of medical transcription companies listed.
Just visit a few of the web sites and check to see if there’s an “employment,”
“Career,” “Join us,” “Contact,” etc., tab on the web site. I’m sure you’ll find
several job openings.
•2. Don’t work at home for the wrong reasons.
Too many people want to work at home for the wrong reasons. Never tell
an employer that you want to work at home because you need to spend more time
with your children. That will certainly seem selfish to an employer, and you
would never get hired. Most employers don’t care whether you want to stay at
home with your children or not. Wanting to work from home to spend more time
with your children is not really a wrong reason, but in an employer’s mind it
is.
Why not look at it this way; working from home would enable you to be
more productive in the sense that you would not miss work when your children are
sick. Also if some other family issues arise you can take care of it without
calling in sick. Wouldn’t this be more beneficial to the employer instead of
saying you want to work at home to spend more time with the kids?
•3. Be
Professional At All Times
When applying for a home-based job, never
respond to an ad via email stating, I’m interested in the work-at-home (data
entry) position.” This is quite unprofessional. Once you find a home-based job
vacancy, apply by sending your cover letter and resume, or fill out an online
application.
If the employer didn’t ask for a cover letter in the job
vacancy ad, please send one anyway. Never send a resume without a cover letter.
It will get thrown in the trash. Please customize each cover letter with
information tailored to that specific job advertisement.
•4. Never Send
Your Resume As An Attachment Unless The ad States That You Can Do So
The
hiring manager might never open the attachment. Also, never copy and paste your
resume into the body of your email and send it to an employer. It will change
format by the time it reaches to the employer, and will look like a jumbled
mess. You must create an ASCII/Plain Text resume and cover letter. For more
information on how to do this please visit the following web sites,
http://resume.monster.com/dosanddonts/email/Index.asp or
http://www.eresumeiq.com/ABC.html.
•5. Follow Instructions
When responding to a job vacancy announcement please make sure you
follow the ad instructions. If the ad asks for specific information please do
exactly as it says. For instance, if the ad says, please describe home office
equipment, make sure you mention in your cover letter exactly what equipment you
have in your home office.
I was once commended by an employer for being
the only job applicant, out of hundreds to actually follow the specific
instructions in the job ad. I was hired for this home-based job mainly because I
followed instructions, not because I was more qualified than all the other
applicants.
•6. Reduce Your Job Search Time
Finding a job using the
Internet can be a frustrating, time-consuming endeavor because there are
literally 1000's of job boards and work at home resources. And don't forget the
Job newsgroups and the regional newspapers.
To be current on this
information is essential. Let YourJobSearcher do the work for you. This software
is not only for 9-5 job searches. You can use it to find telecommuting jobs
also. All you have to do is download and install your Job Search Program, enter
your job description (home-based job title you desire), click and begin the
search. It’s that easy.
About the
Author
Vernette Carbon is the owner-publisher of
AmazingWorkatHomeSecrets.com, and a work at home mom with two children. Discover
how you can work at home for Fortune-500 companies like Office Depot, Sears,
etc. To obtain a free report sent to your email immediately visit:
www.AmazingWorkathomeSecrets.com/intro_new.html or send a blank email to mailto:carbonv@getresponse.com
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