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By Randy Duermyer, About.com Guide to Home Business

This week's Work at Home Jobs

Tuesday July 7, 2009
This week's work at home opportunities have been posted. Enjoy, and good luck in your work at home job search.

A Few Work at Home Job Search Tips
  • US government jobs that are eligible for at least some telecommuting typically use the term "telework" in their job postings. An easy way to find them is to go to the job search tool on About.com and use the term telework for your search (a link is provided for you below). The federal government is committed to expanding telecommuting, so more and more opportunities should become available over time.
  • Use caution and do your homework when searching for any work at home jobs - as most of you already know, it's a huge target for scam operators. However, if you use reliable sources like About Home Business you'll definitely have a leg up on the competition. I've found that searching with the term telecommute yields far more legitimate work at home job opportunities than the term work at home, but you might want to try both (additional links are provided below).
  • Some telecommuting employers will require that you purchase equipment or special software to perform the duties of the job. If that's the case, you should either expect them to make the purchase and then provide you with what you need or insist that you have these items before you can work for them and that you will agree to purchase them from whomever you like and you will either be reimbursed or you won't. Any arrangement where they send you a check you have to cash and then require you to buy from specific sources - usually within a set time frame (before you find out that the check was bogus) - should be avoided at all costs.
Check out this week's Work at Home Jobs (Don't Overlook Page 2)

Search for Jobs Using "Telework"
Search for Jobs Using "Telecommute"
Search for Jobs Using "Work at Home"
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