Home-based Jobs for 2009: What's Hot, What's Not

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Home-based Jobs for 2009: What's Hot, What's Not
Durst and Haaren | December 30, 2008

To help you optimize your job search, here are six quick tips on what to expect in the work-at-home arena in 2009:

1. Virtual call centers will continue to recruit strongly across the U.S. Call centers led the way in home-based employment in recent years, as “homeshoring” (home-based agents) takes hold. Overall, the industry appears likely to fulfill analysts’ predictions of 300,000 at-home agents by 2010.

On the minus side, competition for home-agent positions – which was already strong – will increase as the recession continues. Improve your chances and gain customer service experience wherever you can. And set up a quiet home office, call centers insist on quiet settings.

For details, see our chart of 75-plus virtual call centers here.

2. “Data entry jobs” and similar work-at-home scams will surge. According to our research, the ratio of work-at-home ripoffs to legitimate jobs jumped 30 percent in the past year, and now stands at 54 to 1. (In other words, for every 55 job leads we screen, only one is legitimate.)


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