[il-talk] Fw: The Top 50 Part-Time Work From home Jobs
hina altaf
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Thu Aug 14 13:57:57 UTC 2014
what is the site for home jobs? I work with blind clients and that
optionmight work for some of them.
HIna.
On 8/13/14, Robert A Hansen via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> this gives me ideas to work with and I like the fact that I don't have to
> think that work from home jobs are scams because there are a lot of scams as
> long as there are legitimate opportunities then I am happy
>
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> From Deborah Kent Stein via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Date: 08/13/2014 9:09 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To "Gregory D. Rosenberg" <gregg at ricis.com>,NFB of Illinois Mailing List
> <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject Re: [il-talk] Fw: The Top 50 Part-Time Work From home Jobs
>
>
>
> This is a terrific document. I'm going to save it to share with other job
> seekers. Being proactive and organized are absolutely crucial. These
> strategies will be valuable in any kind of job search - part-time or
> full-time, home employment or employment in a traditional workplace. Thanks
> for posting!
>
> Debbie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory D. Rosenberg via il-talk
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 2:33 PM
> To: Kayla James ; NFB of Illinois Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [il-talk] Fw: The Top 50 Part-Time Work From home Jobs
>
> 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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>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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
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>>>> 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
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>>>>
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>>>>
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> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
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> blindness is not what holds you back.
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> Gregory D. Rosenberg AB9MZ
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