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FlexJobs.com: A Review

May 21, 2012   LTruex   9 Comments
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Recently Sara Sutton Fell the CEO of FlexJobs.com allowed me a sneak peak inside her database of work-at-home jobs and flex-work related services. I’m always on the lookout for great work-at-home job related resources, so I was particularly interested in seeing what FlexJobs had to offer. What I found is that it offers quite a bit. Not only can you search for work-at-home or other flexible work options, but the site allows you to personalize your services so that you get updates on new jobs that fit your interests and the ability to have multiple resume profiles.  From within the FlexJob dashboard you can save or apply to a job and even send it to a friend.

FlexJobs.com offers jobs in 55 categories including accounting, call center/customer service, education, marketing, research, and transcription. It also offers various search options including by job type, company name, and location. Plus there are checklists, articles, and other tools to help you improve your resume and job search.

Like most telecommuting job databases, FlexJobs is not free, but is well worth the price ($49.95/year or $14.96/mo) for the SERIOUS job hunter. And by serious I mean someone who is committed to finding a work-at-home job AND understands that home-based jobs are like traditional jobs that require specialized skills and experience. Someone who is still hoping to sign up to type at home is not suited to FlexJobs (or working at home for that matter).

For people wondering about the rule that you should not pay for a job, let me remind you that the rule is actually that you shouldn’t pay to be hired. It’s okay to pay for services that can help you get a job such as resume writing help or a good telecommuting database. In the traditional work world, it’s not uncommon to pay for resume help or other services to get a job. The same is true in the work-at-home world. What you don’t want to do is to pay someone to HIRE you. FlexJobs.com is simply a service that can speed up the process of finding legitimate work-from-home jobs.

There are not many telecommuting databases that I recommend, but FlexJobs.com offers not just a database full of flexible jobs, but also tools and resources to help you be successful in your work-at-home job search. For anyone who is clear on their skills and experience, and is dedicated to finding a work-at-home job, FlexJobs.com can be a worthwhile resource.

To learn more, visit FlexJobs.com.

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How to Email Your Resume

February 13, 2012   LTruex   No comments
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You have one chance to make a great first impression. When applying to work-at-home jobs online, that first impression comes with a professional cover note and resume. Most people copy their resume and letters into an email and hit send without realizing that the recipient’s email program may not be able to retain the formatting or hidden coding from a document. For example, instead of your resume showing up looking like this:

Name
Address
Email
Job Experience
Eduction

It might show up looking like this:

NameAddressEmailJobExperienceEduction

Another problem is the Word smart quotes or apostrophes often get converted into a series of characters. So instead of looking like  this ” or ‘, they look like this “quotesâ€. These issues can happen when you paste your resume in an online form as well. However, the problem isn’t immediately apparent to you. When you paste your content, it will look like your original document. The problem is that the form or email isn’t able to deliver what you sent and converts what it doesn’t understand into something it does understand. Unfortunately, the recipient gets illegible text.

To avoid this problem change your resume to plain text. It may look boring, but it will have a better chance of showing up in an employers email box legible and professional. To email your resume in plain text:

  1. Open your resume.
  2. Highlight the entire document either by choosing “select all” or dragging your cursor over the text while holding down the left mouse button.
  3. Right click your mouse and select “Copy” from the menu.
  4. Open your text editor (PC users use Notepad).
  5. With your cursor in the open text editor document, right click and select “Paste”.
  6. Clean up any issues such as adding additional line breaks and eliminated extra spaces as needed. All text should justify to the left.
  7. Highlight all the text again and right click to select “Copy”.
  8. Open your email account and click to compose a new email.
  9. Right click your mouse and select “Paste”.
  10. Check that your resume appears professional. Once you have all the information you need in the email, click “Send”.

Watch a video tutorial on emailing your resume below.

 

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