Best Ways To Get A Work At Home Job

Even with a struggling economy, work-at-home jobs abound as companies use home-based employees as a cost savings strategy. For work-at-home job hunters though, finding legitimate work-at-home jobs is tricky and they often find only scams. To be successful, job seekers need to realize that work at home jobs are like traditional jobs; they require skills, experience, and an application process. Its not possible to sign-up for a job (for a fee) to lick envelopes, or to process email or rebates.

Here are the top ways to get a work-from-home job:

1) Convince your boss to let you work from home.

If you are serious about working at home, the only way to approach your supervisor is with a written proposal. The first step in the proposal process is to evaluate your job and company for conduciveness to telecommuting. What duties and activities related to your job can be done from home? Does your company or similar businesses allow flexible work options?

The work-at-home proposal must be written and must outline your plans as well as benefits to the company your new work arrangement will provide. Propose a work schedule and provide
information on how and when you will be available to your employer and coworkers. What equipment will you need and who will provide it? How will your work be evaluated? Show
your supervisor how working at home has been successful in other companies by including statistics or articles on telecommuting.

Your proposal needs to focus on the benefits your working at home will be to the company. Your boss doesn't want to hear about your morning hassles to get kids to daycare, but he'd be interested to know how working at home can save him money.

2) Create Telecommuting Position

I landed my current telecommuting job by sending letters of introduction along with a resume to businesses in my state inquiring if they needed contract workers in my area.

Start by sending your professional introduction and resume to companies that are already advertising for jobs in your field. In your letter, suggest a contract position and include information on how such arrangements can save the company money over hiring a regular employee.

You can send similar information to businesses that aren't advertising (as I did) by using your phone book and Internet to identify companies in your field.

While its much easier to turn an existing job into a work-at-home job, sometimes that's not an option. When searching for a work-at-home job, remember that these employers are looking for people that have skills and experience to fill a specific position. Its these positions that they advertise, not "work at home".

Its much easier to turn an existing job into a work-at-home job than getting hired to work from home. But if you're boss won't let you work from home, you can find jobs online. Its important to remember that employers are not looking for home-based workers to sign-up and do menial work. They are looking for people that have skills and experience to fill a specific position. They advertise these positions on job search sites. You can still find scams and business opportunities on job sites. But you won't find legitimate jobs in search engines, so you need to stick to career sites to search for work.

When you find a good job, be sure to follow the directions for applying. The biggest complaint of employers is that applicants don't follow application instructions. Submit professional quality resumes or applications that are tailored to fit each job you apply to.

Working at home in a job is a viable option for anyone if they do the research and put forth the effort.