sharon on October 26th, 2011

While searching for and applying for work at home has many similarities to work outside of the home with respect to meeting required skills and qualifications, the resume to present to an online employer should be tailored in a way that displays not only your talents and professional experience, but should also highlight your ability [...]

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Join me live this Friday at 1pm EST (10am PST) on 411Voices.  This week’s guest is author, speaker and recruiter Abby Kohut. Abby is a Human Resources recruiting professional with 15 years of experience and she is on a mission to help one million job seekers get back to work. In her book, Absolutely Abby’s 101 [...]

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sharon on September 29th, 2011

Need a job?  Please join me for an evening of job leads and job hunting advice on the 411Voices On Air Job Fair on Monday, October 3rd from 6pm-7:30pm PST(9-10:30pm EST). Along with my co-host Ann Dunnewold, we’ll be chatting with employers who are actively hiring such as Arise Virtual Solutions, Money Crashers and HealthPoint. Also joining us will be Abby [...]

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sharon on August 24th, 2011

You’ve found the perfect work at home job! Now, all that stands between you and your dream of working at home is to stand out from the competition and ace the interview. Here are 7 tips to help you shine and increase your chances of snagging that work at home job. 1. Be professional. In [...]

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Join me tomorrow for my online radio show, Your Way to Work At Home. It airs live Fridays at 1pm EST (10am PST) on 411Voices. The idea for FlexJobs came about in 2007 by Sara Sutton Fell, an experienced entrepreneur who at the time was pregnant with her first child. She had started looking at flexible [...]

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Join me tomorrow for my online radio show, Your Way to Work At Home. It airs live Wednesdays from 12:30-1pm (9:30-10am PST) on 411Voices. Joining me tomorrow will be Frances Cole Jones, Author of THE WOW FACTOR. The 33 Things You Must (and Must Not) Do to Guarantee Your Edge in Today’s Business World. Frances [...]

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sharon on February 3rd, 2011

Craigslist is a great place to find job listings (and many other things too, like the person who was trying to sell a child for $1000 but I digress). Here are some tips that can make your telecommute job search more effective. Use the search box on the left-hand side. Put “telecommuting” in the search [...]

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sharon on December 7th, 2010

People often ask me why I don’t post listings for their area. My first thought is to say that I have no way of knowing what area they live in, but what I tell them is that I post all telecommute listings that I find. Many telecommute jobs require local candidates because they need you [...]

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sharon on December 3rd, 2010

It’s very frustrating to receive an email from someone that says, “I really need to work at home. Please help me.” It would be impossible for me to make any kind of recommendation to this person. I receive emails just like this so frequently that I’ve created a template of the response that I send [...]

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So your career has been on hold for awhile. You’ve taken some time for yourself, whether it be to raise a family, pursue a hobby, or care for loved ones, and even though you have not been “working,” you’ve most certainly been working. But how to go about getting a regular job? Are you at [...]

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