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Using Keywords to Find Legitimate Telecommuting Job Leads
By: Nell Taliercio
Many people are choosing telecommuting as an option to
bring in an income while being at home. Whatever the reasons
that we choose to work at home, the one thing we all have
in common is the problem of locating legitimate jobs online.
We often come online with the idea that finding a job online
will be easy.
Unfortunately it’s not usually that easy. What you
will often run into are the scams for working at home. Why
is that though? We often find the job search websites and
plug in two common keywords. These two keywords are often
the reason many of us give up on finding a legitimate job
because all that pulls up are the scams.
The keywords I’m speaking of are:
•Work at home •Work from home
--> With the keywords “work at home,” you’re
almost 100% guaranteed to pull up scams or business opportunities,
and not the legitimate jobs. Now don’t get me wrong,
there can be legit jobs in these keywords. Iit takes much
longer to find them, and it’s much harder to locate
them. In my 4 plus years of working at home, I’ve
discovered lesser used keywords that yield me much better
results.
Popular Keywords:
•Telecommuting •Telecommute •Telecommuter
--> These three keywords are second to “work at
home” in their popularity. A pro of these keywords
is that many leads will be listed with them. I find legitimate
job leads using these keywords every time I search with
them. I also find the scams, but overall these keywords
are great to use with your job search.
7 More Keywords to Use
•Must have home office •1099 •IC or independent
contractor •Virtual office and virtual •Remote
contractor •Off-site •Freelance
--> Next on the list are these 7 keywords. Next to telecommuting,
these are my favorite. Often they will pull up legitimate
jobs. You won’t always find a good variety of leads
all the time. Sometimes the deeper you dig, the better the
jobs and the better your chance that hundreds of other people
haven’t found that same job.
Last 3 Keywords to Try
•Must have DSL •Home-based •Home-based
employee
--> Last, I use these 3 keywords when finishing up my
job search. I don’t always find leads with these keywords
on every job search site I go to, but the more job search
sites you go to, the better your chance you’ll find
leads with all these keywords. You can find a list of over
25 job search sites at http://www.telecommutingmoms.com
Basically, the more keywords you use and the more job sites
you go to, the better your chance at locating legitimate
job leads. Even if it takes you a few hours a week to do
your searching, with all the keywords and job search sites,
it’s worth it in the end if you land a job!
Another thing to keep in mind for speeding up the job search
is to know what a scam looks like so you can avoid it. I’ve
gotten to the point where I can usually just read the title
of the “job” and know right away it’s
a scam. If I do click in a job lead, within a few seconds
I can determine if it’s a scam or sketchy. I wasn’t
able to do that when I first started out in the telecommuting
field, though. In my time of being scammed and reading others
being scammed, I discovered the common scams and the common
red flags. Read more about scams, red flags, and links to
research scams at http://www.telecommutingmoms.com
In closing, I’d like to say that using these keywords
is a good start. When you find legitimate jobs, really search
through the description and see what keywords they use.
When you find a new keyword, jot that down and add it to
your keyword list. The more keywords you use, the better
your chance of finding and landing a legitimate job!
Happy Job Hunting!
Article by:
Nell Taliercio is the owner and founder of www.telecommutingmoms.com
– which is a leading resource website with work at
home jobs and everything a telecommuting mom would need.
Come visit us today!
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