Guest Post
How To Find A Remote Job When You’ve Never Worked Remotely Before
Remote work is more common now than ever before. An estimated 4.3 million people in the US work remotely — and that was BEFORE the start of the pandemic.
Even still, not everyone has a job that is remote-friendly. For example, service workers, tradesmen, construction workers, first responders, and many other professions are traditionally in person.
If you’re a server at a restaurant or bartender, it’s impossible to do these jobs remotely. Similarly, if you’re a welder or electrician, you can’t exactly telecommute.
But that doesn’t mean if you work a traditional in-office or on-location job you can’t transition to telecommuter.
In fact, as a remote work career coach, I regularly help job seekers do just that! Many aspiring remote workers want to ditch their out-of-the-house job for a more remote-friendly position.
Here’s what I advise them to make the transition as easy as possible.
It’s Time for Amazing Creativity in How We Approach Our Life’s Work
It is a new month. We are into September, back to school, Labor Day, back to work after the summer — there are so many traditional markers this time of year. In fact, if you look at some of the stores you go to, they have Halloween candy out for sale already.
Traditions are good and they connect us to the past, to memories, experiences, family, and friends. Good times and maybe not so good, too.
Although our connections to the past and to traditions are good, they keep us stuck. COVID-19 keeps us stuck. The conversations and the narratives do not seem to change. Each day the news gets worse, there are more cases, tempers flare, and anxiety issues are up.
Yes, there are many of us going through the wringer right about now. Uncertainty about our businesses, our work, safety, the kids going to school… will the NFL season happen or not? Okay, maybe the NFL is not such a big issue in the big scheme of things.
6 Biggest Mistakes Remote Job Seekers Make (And What To Do Instead)
Job search mistakes happen. You don’t do them on purpose but they’re harmful nonetheless.
As a Certified Professional Career Coach that specializes in remote work, I regularly guide lost job seekers. Too often, they come to me after they’ve tried (and failed) to find remote work on their own.
Sound familiar?
If so, you might be making these remote job search mistakes. Don’t worry, once you know what they are, you can easily fix them. The sooner you do, the easier your remote job search becomes.
1. They Don’t Focus Their Search
There are a lot of benefits to remote work. Time and money saved are just two of the obvious ones. But, don’t forget about the all-important ‘happiness factor.’ That is, studies repeatedly show that remote workers = happier workers. I didn’t name this blog Work From Home Happiness for nothing! It’s no wonder, then, job seekers want to kick their cubicles to the curb — and fast.
Chegg.com is Internationally Hiring Stay-At-Home Tutors and Academic Advisors
Modernization, automation and introduction of progressive technologies – all these actions are intended to make every aspect of human life more comfortable and efficient.
New technology has enabled humanity to get extra benefits for their life and made it more convenient and comfortable. But the development of various technologies has also helped various businesses function more efficiently and get more things done in shorter periods of time.
Let’s look, for example, at the Internet. It has helped companies all over the world to exchange information faster, gain access to new target audience, etc. But we, as basic users, use this technology to interact with each other, get access to unlimited information from all over the world and even learn.
By the way, speaking of learning, the companies that work in the educational niche, are trying to put technology to use by presenting new remote educational services. Now you can gain access to college courses online, find an Internet-based tutor or even make money by being such a tutor. Here is how it works.
6 Science-Backed Strategies That Benefit Your Remote Job Search
Being unemployed is hard. For many job seekers, it can be downright isolating. This is especially true for remote job seekers whose connection to recruiters and hiring managers is entirely virtual. Plus, studies show the unemployed have impaired mental health and lower self-esteem.
Needless to say, it can be draining to tie your self worth to your job search. Often, it takes days if not weeks and months to hear back from jobs you’ve applied to (if you ever hear back at all). Add that to the lack of in-person connections and daily routine and, well, it can be a recipe for self-isolated disaster.
But, fear not! As a career coach, I work with remote job seekers to implement science-backed strategies to help build much-needed momentum when unemployed.
1. Wake Up Early.
When you don’t have a job, why wake up early? For starters, an early start gives you a sense of purpose that goes missing when unemployed. Also, most recruiters and hiring managers start their own days at 9:00 a.m. sharp. You want to be readily available to take their calls.
Easy Solutions to Homeschool and Work Full Time
Easy solutions to homeschool and work full time to give you complete flexibility
Looking for easy solutions to homeschool and work full time? Start here and create a block schedule, find clever childcare for younger children, use all-in-one free resources, use a big picture approach for home education, and find like-minded encouragement!
You deserve a night alone with a pizza and a bottle of wine.
Just the fact that you are interested in homeschooling and working full time means you deserve all of that and more. Go ahead! Throw in a carton of ice cream.
I’m not kidding. Homeschooling and working is not for the faint of heart.
Are You a “Fast Clicker?” Work From Home in 2-Hour Increments as a Dialer Monitor, $15/Hr
We just learned about GetThru – makers of ThruTalk and ThruText technology that helps clients to reach people on their cell phones. The company has posted openings for Part-Time Dialer Monitors.
The role involves clicking on numbers at lightning speed when they pop up on your screen, and the company admits that it can get intense. That’s why they limit the shifts to two hours.
- Work from anywhere in the US that has an excellent internet connection.
- Pay is $15/hour a there are some benefits.
NOTE: The company has roots in politics so I’ll take this moment to remind all of our readers that this is a job listing, not a political statement. At RRR, we find work from home jobs, we screen work from home jobs, we post work from home jobs… if a particular job is not right for you, there are others that might be a better fit.
Here’s what the company has posted about this opportunity:
Home Automation Ideas That Make Life Easier
Today I want to make your life easier by introducing you to some of the best home automation ideas for a simple life. We all live a hectic lifestyle, so any way we can make it easier is always welcomed.
If you’re looking to make your life easier with home automation, then stick around. I’ve got all the devices you need in your life.
Home Automation Ideas
Several home automation ideas can help you in the garden, home, or add extra home security. Below I’m going to list some top ideas to get you going in your home automation journey:
Pinterest Update 2020 (Latest Pinterest Changes for Bloggers and Business)
I think I know why you are on this page… A new Pinterest update 2020 just happened, some algorithm or interface changes seem to be occurring as we speak, and your traffic is either going down or up (lucky you if it’s the latter!). I created this page because I got tired of replying over and over to similar questions I receive from my students about the latest Pinterest update (s).
I plan to update this page fairly frequently – as soon as something significant happens on Pinterest, you’ll be the first one to know about it from this post. So SAVE THIS PIN to your Pinterest Marketing board for later.
If you use Pinterest for marketing your products or you are a blogger and drive traffic from this platform, you probably know by now that algorithm updates and major interface changes happen on Pinterest so often that people are getting confused by what is the most recent or new update, what happened just a month ago.
Section 321: How to Avoid US Import Tariffs
Since the inception of the online landscape, the number of e-commerce businesses across the country has increased exponentially.
Many of these have filled a need in the market by finding overseas goods that are of interest to American consumers, importing them, and selling them on for a profit.
And let’s face it — it is an incredibly effective business model.
By pursuing overseas goods, you can find products that are yet to hit the American markets. This alone creates a point of difference between you and any other businesses in the area.
Moreover, these same products are often of a high quality and can be obtained at an extremely low price point.
As such, this method of business has become one of the most effective ways for US citizens to create a viable income using nothing more than a laptop, an internet connection, and some ingenuity.
However, things have recently started to change.
Telelanguage.com are Hiring Stay-At-Home Transcribers, Interpreters and Call Center Agents
While there are more and more companies that try to explore additional earning opportunities by extending their services to international countries; it’s the countries that manage to use benefits of modern technology and skilled bilingual workers become successful even in the remotest parts of the world.
The globalization of business has created new job titles and opened new extra income opportunities for people, who are either fluent in other languages besides English or is comfortable in working from home by doing such jobs as transcription or call centre support.
Today we would like to review an employer, who has several job positions in the abovementioned fields.
What is Telelanguage.com?
Telelanguage is an Oregon-based company, which specializes in providing a wide array of services, including transcription, interpretation and document translation.
Getting Your Digital Life Organized With @Evernote
Digital clutter is a problem. It didn’t use to be a problem because we never used to spend as much time online as we do now. But between the hours spent on social media and reading our favourite blogs or news sites, we tend to accumulate quite a bit of digital clutter in the form of open browser tabs, bookmarked pages, and saved articles and links.
If you are like me, the system you use to track the interesting articles you’d like to read later is to either: a) bookmark it (and therefore, clutter up your web browser bookmarking feature making it utterly useless) or b) leave the aforementioned interesting article open in a tab (making your laptop hopelessly slow and your web browser almost impossible to navigate).
That’s why I FINALLY started using Evernote!
An early adopter to this digital organizer I am not, but an enthusiastic one, I definitely am! For the 3 people on the internet who haven’t heard of Evernote, it’s basically a digital clipping tool that lets you save all that digital clutter in an organized manner.