Guaranteed Home Employment Opportunities

Home employment is a reality. Some of those customer service jobs that were outsourced to foreign countries are being brought back home.

What seemed to be a way of cutting the cost of doing business, now has major American companies rethinking outsourcing due to the backlash of growing customer dissatisfaction, according to an NBC Nightly News report broadcast in February 2008.

A prime factor in customer aggravation is the accent-factor: there can be no customer telephone support if the speaker and listener cannot understand each other.

Companies from AAA to Home Depot currently hire 150,000 homeworkers and that number is growing.

Make no mistake: most of the jobs listed here pay only $12-$15 an hour, but some go as high as $25. There are no benefits.

In addition to your computer and high speed internet connection, you may have to pay for a dedicated phone line. While you won’t be online constantly, in fact, you might be dealing with customers only 2 hours out of a 10-hour work schedule, you have to be available to answer the calls.

Most of the job opportunities listed here are for full-time employees. A few have seasonal positions. As in off-line jobs, many of the service providers want employees with experience.

Typically, virtual consumer service providers are scheduled 8- to 10-hour shifts four to five days or nights a week. When you sign up, you inherit the worst time slots – your shift could start at midnight!

Should you have any questions about your rights as an employee, please refer to information found at You Can Learn Basic Employee Rights. For those of you who have young children and want to work from your home office, or for retirees and the disabled looking for a side income, this could be the home job you’ve been looking for.

Although the opportunities and job descriptions vary, many work like this. You are paid for every minute you are on a phone call. In addition, you earn commissions for any products you sell during that phone call in your home office. Many of the positions are strictly sales. You are given a contact list of “warm” clients and call to notify customers about sales or to ask them to renew service contracts.

Are they legitimate? Most genuine home employment opportunities do not ask you to pay upfront. There are exceptions. Elance, i-Freelance, oDesk, and others online employment agencies require highly skilled workers--artists, professional writers, accountants, web publishers, etc.--to pay a monthly fee for an account.

Never work for a company that asks you to set up a bank account or make bank fund transfers.

Before you get started, take the Self-Survey of Job Skills. You may be a more valuable employee than you think!

Virtual Call Centers

A call center company that uses home-based customer service representatives to handle calls for a variety of companies.

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Customer service calls for a variety of major corporations are routed through this center and answered by people who work from home.

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