Ways to find your Next Telecommuting Job

Jill Hart writes about five different ways to find a telecommuting job: newspapers, online (Job sites, Craigslist, watch out for scams - remember, you should never have to pay someone to get a job), post your resume online, cold-call local businesses, start a work-at-home business

Personally, I do not see much of a difference between lists like this, and guides on how to get any type of job. Although you may have luck searching for, finding and getting a telecommuting job, I think that your chances would be much better if by searching for a job that you like. While evaluating companies, be sure to think about whether this is the type of company that might allow or encourage telecommuting (ie: in technology, other employees telecommuting, seem to be following recent technology trends) or not (still using mainframe computers, old-fashioned). When interviewing, ask whether they are open to telecommuting, and make it clear that this is something that you would be interested in. However, be sure that you like the job and the company. If you go for a job where the only redeeming quality is working from home, and you don’t actually like the work, then you will probably not find telecommuting to be as good as you thought, and you will probably be looking for a new job sooner rather than later.