[il-talk] Fw: The Top 50 Part-Time Work From home Jobs
Gregory D. Rosenberg
gregg at ricis.com
Wed Aug 13 21:33:22 UTC 2014
Good afternoon Kayla,
Please pardon the length of this response.
I would like to offer a possible strategy for identifying the work at home job that might work for you. These thoughts are not entirely complete, but they should help provide some foundation for identifying and achieving your dream home job.
Researching your perspective work at home job.
1) Start by setting up a notebook on your computer or a brail notebook. Organize all of the information you gather or identify.
a) Create a cover page with your name on it, list the work at home jobs that interested you, and if you are able to state the ideal job(s) that seem interesting to you.
b) Create one or more pages for each company that you have researched. Include a log of your calls, who you spoke with, and a summary of the conversation(s).
c) Create one or more pages for each job that you discovered. Include the jobs roles and responsibilities. The education or certification requirements. Any other pre-requisites. You can find job descriptions for every imaginable job on the Internet that you can draw from. List any books, magazines, newspapers, or on-line articles that you found about the job. Optionally add a copy of each or a summary of what you learned from it.
d) You might find it handily to have a section for your call logs.
e) Establish a section where you can place you life long achievements (skills, certifications, …). Include any certificates or awards you received. add copies of any newspaper, magazine, or on-line articles you were mentioned in. Ask family members, associates, and friends if they would write a letter of reference on your behalf. A scout master, merit badge councilor, community service organizer, licenses administrator, mentor, testing center, board or forum member that overseas a given certification process.
f) Now it is time to create your short list of jobs that interest you. Next extract any items from your life long achievements that would specifically assist you in meeting the job pre-requisites for your dream work at home job.
2) Pick one or more of the work at home jobs that interests you from the “Top 50 Work at Home Jobs List”. Next research the job(s) you have chosen. Identify the type(s) of of job positions. For example. I choose #1 on the list Information Technology (IT). There are dozens of types of jobs within that field. I happen to have significant computer skills in many job areas (i.e. Systems programmer, systems administrator, security officer, network administrator, …). Once you have a sense of the positions each company requires and have a general idea of what roles each job requires (i.e. responsibilities, education requirements, certifications, salary, …), you are then equipped to find out which jobs are potentially practical for you to do at home.
3) Next find and research companies and jobs on the web. Search the “Thomas Register” and find perspective companies. Read as much as you can on each of the companies. Then research the potential department or business units, as well as the jobs that each might require.
4) Make a list of all the companies you have worked for in the past. Please do not be concerned if you have not worked in the past. Identify what positions you have held and the skills you had to have to perform your duties. Talk to fellow visually challenged friends and find out what companies they have worked for and what their jobs entailed. Discover the skills that they had to have to perform their day to day duties.
5) Make skill sheet. What skills do you have. Don’t worry if they are unrelated to the jobs you are potentially interested in. Start out from the earliest age of childhood you can remember. Science fairs, spelling bees, merit badges in scouting, a blue ribbon in the schools art fair, school plays, band camp, summer camp, space camp, community projects, CPR / First Aid, Community Emergency Response Team, FEMA certifications, foreign languages, AP / Honors classes, made announcements over your school PA each morning, 4H, Junior Achievement, certifications, sports teams, volunteer at the boys and girls clubs, participate in a Christmas program at a Senior Living facility, took many classes in programming, earned a massage therapy certificate at my local junior collage, Hight School graduate, BS in Computer Science with minors in math, chemistry, and industry & technology, …, and the list goes on.
Your skills list may be many pages long when you are done. If you know how to use tables you can create a two or three column table in your word processor to better conserve space. If not just place one skill or achievement per line.
In 1968 my mother took me many nights of the week to Governor State University. Not have much to do after I finished my homework in the library I started walking around the campus. I ran into a older many that was typing on what appeared to be a typewriter. In reality it was a teletype like machine that allowed him to type commands to the computer and it would print results back on the roll of paper. It also had a paper tape read / writer. You could type a program onto the tape and then load it at anytime in the future through the tape reader to run the program. To make a long story short I asked what it was. After an hour long discussion I told him my mother was finishing her RN and asked if I could get an account to use the computer. I also asked what I could read to learn more about computers. I got my account and a foot thick stack of books to read. Thus my passion for computer science started. Let me backup for a moment. When I was eight I started reading books and learning what they called at the time machine language. My Dad had brought home a junked computer that he and I worked on to make it operational. That experience started my passion for computer science.
4) Call some of the companies you have identified in step one. Ask to speak to their HR department. Most will be friendly and offer to help. Tell them outright that you are researching job positions that might be adapted into a work at home environment. Explain your particular challenges you face in your day to day life. See if they can provide any job descriptions. So much the better, if you can identify the department head that is responsible for the given department of interest. Many department heads or supervisors are quite willing to give up a small amount of their time. If you get any pushback simply describe your intentions of research job positions roles and requirements. Rather then letting them assume you are merely seeking a job position with the company.
Keep track of the date and time, what companies you called and who you spoke with. Include any notes about your conversation. List any business units, departments, or names that came up in the conversation. Ask for the mailing addresses for each person you have spoke with. Write a letter than day thanking them for their time. Allow a few days for the letter to arrive. Then consider calling back and try to get to anyone that might have been discussed during your initial discussion or try to discover more names. See if you can speak with a person holding the job you have interest in.
The conversation might go like this: Ask if they could spare a few minutes. This is just common courtesy. If they are too busy ask if they could call you back or if you could reach them at a better time. Tell them you are interested in the type of work they do and would greatly appreciate if they could share their duties and the education they had to have in order to perform their job. In the computer fields their are latterly hundreds of certification. Ask them what positions they have held in the past that might have been prerequisites for their current job. Keep the conversation brief. Have a good list of questions ahead of time. Be a good listener.
5) Now you face the potentially challenging task or reading as much as you can about your dream home job(s). Identify and earn industry certifications that can give you the edge. I have personally and know of many others that have talked their way into a client by offering to be an intern or even offering some work for free. Think of this like when you go to the grocery store and get free samples of food. They have to prove to you how good their product is. You in turn have to prove to a potential client that your skill set and abilities are equally tasty.
I could probably write a small book on this subject. Speaking of books there are some very good books you can find at a library or buy on writing cover letters or letters in general and resumes.
The Small Business Administration offers lots of seminars. SCORE offers retired professionals that will sit down with you and help you think through the ideas for your work at home job.
Of course having your own company and being an independent consultant or providing a specific service does come with some governmental reporting responsibilities. The IRS offers tons of publications and forms. They have a special CD that collects these together for small business owners. The also have another CD that has the full tax calendar on it. If you want to sell to the government you have a few options. The PTAC or Procurement Technical Assistance Center. There is even a special group just for Woman called the Woman’s Business Development Center. These are usually associated with a PTAC. Yes the government does off its challenging collection of acronyms. They are not as bad as they seem.
I am happy to offer advise off the list if I can offer anyone further guidance.
On Aug 13, 2014, at 13:47 CDT, Kayla James via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I am interested in this. I'd like to find a job on here, but I don't
> know what I'd be really good at.
>
> On 8/12/14, Robert A Hansen via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> I could look at finding some of this kind of work
>>
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>> From "Gregory D. Rosenberg via il-talk" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Date: 08/12/2014 6:27 PM (GMT-06:00)
>> To Deborah Kent Stein <dkent5817 at att.net>,NFB of Illinois Mailing List
>> <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject Re: [il-talk] Fw: The Top 50 Part-Time Work From home Jobs
>>
>> Good evening Deborah,
>>
>> I guess I did good choosing #1 IT. It so far has kept be well since 1974.
>>
>> On Aug 12, 2014, at 18:02 CDT, Deborah Kent Stein via il-talk
>> <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> The Top 50 Part-Time Work From home Jobs
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This may be of interest to anyone looking to enter the workforce.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------
>>>
>>> The Top 50 Part-Time Work From Home Jobs
>>> FlexJobs ranks the top 50 job categories that offer the most
>>> work-from-home jobs
>>> with part-time schedules.
>>>
>>> The 'back to school' season often generates an increase in stay at home
>>> moms (and dads) looking for part-time work once their children are in
>>> school for much of the day.Boulder, CO (PRWEB) August 12, 2014
>>>
>>> For job seekers looking to work from home on a part-time basis, FlexJobs
>>> has identified the top 50 job categories that had the most open positions
>>> in the last year. The list was compiled by analyzing job listing data from
>>> September 2013 through July 2014 for jobs that offered part-time hours and
>>> the option to work from home. According to FlexJobs’ CEO Sara Sutton Fell,
>>> job seekers who are most interested in these types of flexible jobs
>>> include mothers, retirees, caregivers, military spouses, graduate
>>> students, people with disabilities, and any professionals interested
>>> finding better work-life balance.
>>>
>>> The "back to school" season often generates an increase in stay at home
>>> moms (and dads) looking for part-time work once their children are in
>>> school for much of the day. In a FlexJobs survey last year of working
>>> parents, 33% of respondents said that having their children back in school
>>> was a reason for their job search. Additionally, 82% said that having a
>>> flexible job was "very important" to them as parents of school aged
>>> children.
>>>
>>> For parents and other audiences looking for flexible work, here are the
>>> top 50 part-time work from home job categories over the past year:
>>>
>>> 1. Computer & IT
>>> 2. Medical & Health
>>> 3. Customer Service
>>> 4. Education & Training
>>> 5. Web & Software Dev
>>> 6. Writing
>>> 7. Inbound Call
>>> 8. Call Center
>>> 9. Teaching
>>> 10. Sales
>>> 11. Bilingual
>>> 12. Online Content
>>> 13. K-12 Teaching
>>> 14. Project Management
>>> 15. College & University Teaching
>>> 16. News & Journalism
>>> 17. Manager
>>> 18. Research
>>> 19. Insurance
>>> 20. Nursing
>>> 21. Analyst
>>> 22. Technical Support
>>> 23. Internet & Ecommerce
>>> 24. Medical Coding
>>> 25. Consulting
>>> 26. Accounting & Finance
>>> 27. Marketing
>>> 28. HR & Recruiting
>>> 29. Editing
>>> 30. Administrative
>>> 31. Business Development
>>> 32. Account Management
>>> 33. Travel & Hospitality
>>> 34. Science
>>> 35. Math & Economics
>>> 36. Data Entry
>>> 37. Client Services
>>> 38. IT Consulting
>>> 39. Case Management
>>> 40. Translation
>>> 41. Virtual Admin
>>> 42. Human Services
>>> 43. Sales Representative
>>> 44. Art & Creative
>>> 45. Graphic Design
>>> 46. Pharmaceutical
>>> 47. Nonprofit & Philanthropy
>>> 48. Web Design
>>> 49. Advertising & PR
>>> 50. Entertainment & Media
>>>
>>> “Of course these flexible job options appeal to any job seeker searching
>>> for better work-life balance,” Sara Sutton Fell, CEO of FlexJobs shared.
>>> “But it’s worth noting that these types of schedules and available
>>> positions are an eye-opener for any parent thinking about returning to the
>>> workforce now that schools across the country are back in session or about
>>> to start. Many people don’t realize they can work part-time from home in a
>>> legitimate, professional-level job during school hours.”
>>>
>>> For moms in particular, part-time work-from-home jobs can be a step back
>>> into the workforce or a chance to find better balance if they're already
>>> working. Pew Research found that 47 percent of all moms say their ideal
>>> situation would be to work part-time, and 44 percent of moms currently
>>> working full-time would rather work part-time.
>>>
>>> For people at or near retirement, part-time work-from-home jobs may be
>>> necessity. The Federal Reserve just released statistics that show that
>>> almost 20 percent of people aged 55 to 64 years have zero dollars saved
>>> for retirement. And almost half of current retirees, and 72 percent of
>>> those near retirement, will need or want to work at least part-time,
>>> rather than retire completely according to a new study.
>>>
>>> “There are several full-time jobs offering the option to telecommute as
>>> well,” added Fell. “But we thought it was especially timely to view the
>>> different part-time options now that school is back in session.”
>>>
>>> For more information on the list of 50 top work-from-home job categories
>>> and job details, visit:
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>>>
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>>> entry-level to executive, freelance to full-time, FlexJobs offers job
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