"It's now possible to meet with recruiters without actually showing up for a job interview." The Wall Street Journal is reporting on several companies (including HP, Microsoft and Verizon) who are starting to interview job candidates and hold job fairs in Second Life. Though not telecommuting per-say, this is enough of a change from the traditional office interview to merit mention on this blog. Read More... (Linked on 2007.06.20 | # | 0 )
TECHdodo writes about an encounter with some individuals whose job seems to call out for telecommuting, yet they still live in an area with $800,000 houses and commute to work. They take pride in their teleconferencing center and call-forwarding system, but are not aware of tools like Skype and Grand Central that can do the same for much much less money. This is the norm right now - even for people who do not require so much face time and should be able to work remotely, saving themselves and their employers time and money, the concept is still foreign. Read More... (Linked on 2007.06.20 | # | 0 )
Sylvie Charrier dispenses some advice, including defining carefully what you are looking for, preparing your materials thoroughly, using work-at-home databases, freelance directories, online search tools and job boards. Read More... (Linked on 2007.06.20 | # | 0 )
Layer 8 writes about conflicting facts in recently released surveys that give a mixed message about the current trends in telecommuting. Interesting statistic: currently only 2% of US employees telecommute full-time. If all who could, did (25%) than this would save $3.9 billion in fuel costs every year (National Technology Readiness Survey) (Linked on 2007.06.14 | # | 0 )
Half of the employees at the National Recreation and Park Association in Ashburn, Va., started working four, 10-hour days while the other half started telecommuting one day a week in an effort to reduce their driving. Read More... (Linked on 2007.06.13 | # | 0 )
