The most common question we’re asked is how to find legitimate home-based opportunities.
There are several great ways to find full-time and freelance openings.
The big job boards like HotJobs.com, CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com are filled with thousands of work-from-home opportunities.
I really love SimplyHired.com because the site grabs positions from a wide variety of sources.
The key is to search all of these Web sites by using the words “virtual” or “home-based” when looking for opportunities advertised online.
As with any advertised opportunity, you must do your homework to determine if something’s right for you. That means talking to a live person and not just relying on an e-mail exchange to learn in-depth about the requirements, challenges and potential earning power.
Don’t be fooled by postings that promise big bucks for minimal effort. If it were that easy, we’d all be working in those jobs!
Photo by John Salzberg.
Kozan on November 20th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
What a great article.
I agree with the research bit. If you just go with email’s to decide you could be in for something you did not want.
There a loads of opportunities which work and others which don’t. On top of that you got unscupelous ones to.
When I was ready to start more projects I went through a lot of places and did a lot of researching before being delighted with the one I found now.