Applaud you for taking action on my recommendations and landing a little something to make you money at home! I love hearing stories like that. It goes to show if folks are open minded and are willing to explore various options available to them, you can make money online even if it’s not a lot or fast. In any event, I’m very proud of you. Keep up the good work and keep pushing forward. I’m sure you’ll find more options as you read through my blog. I’m not sure if you read my recommendations page yet, but you might want to head there: http://www.workathomenoscams.com/recommendations

Thanks for taking the time to share your good news with me. Hopefully it will expire others to follow your lead. Just in case people want to know, the KGB stuff big Tom is referring to can be found here:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/01/27/get-paid-to-text-message-with-kgbkgbcom/

P.S. I’ll be praying that you hit that lotto soon! lol

Thanks for stopping by and offering this freebie to my users. Everyone should take you up on this!

I’m glad you can see the value of the article and the advice provided. Just keep in mind that even if you can’t land a traditional work at home job there are other ways to make money at home that can be started now. See our personal recommendations at:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/articles

So you have options either way. But you’re taking the right steps. It’s important to invest in one’s self especially when it comes to training and education especially in the work at home industry.

Eddy

Thanks for your great input as well.
Some of the things you’ve mentioned are just a given.
In any situation you can have a perfectly written resume but if you just don’t have the skills you’re not getting hired. I think that’s obvious and people shouldn’t apply to jobs they’re not qualified for.

I also agree that interviewing well is also important. My resume could be perfect but if I look like a slob or can’t carry a intelligent conversation with the potential employer than it’s a wrap for me even if I’m more qualified than everyone else.

At the end of the day the article was providing one of many techniques that a job seeker should consider to help them land a work at home job. Anyone that has been on my blog long enough knows I provide many.

So this article wasn’t meant to be the sole magic bullet. I apologize if that was the impression.

Landing a work at home job is like any other job in many ways where common sense also places into this.

So hopefully everyone keeps this in mind when reading this article and the others on this or any other site.

Manda, thanks again for your useful input.

Eddy

Thanks for your honesty. It was really appreciated and welcomed. I have to say you’re absolutely right and I’m big enough to apologize when I’m wrong. Sometimes in my zeal to get a point across I come off a little strong and even down right rude. (My wife gets at me about it from time to time. LOL)

I didn’t mean to imply that people were lazy. What I was trying to get across is that when trying to land a work at home job, set your self apart from the herd.
Make yourself stand out to an employer. One of the ways of doing this in my humble opinion is getting your resume professionally written.

But I’ll concede that for some people like yourself it may not be necessary. However I will say this, just because one is college educated and has a lot of experience doesn’t mean that they are going to be able to write a great optimized resume. A surgeon may be brilliant at fixing someone’s organs but it doesn’t necessarily mean he can fix my car.

So with that said, I think for others professional resume writing services is worth a shot especially when other things have failed you. As someone that has hired work at home seekers I’ve seen some horrible resumes. Unfortunately these are the people that end up in my special folder known as the trash bin. And I’m sure that many of those folks might have been qualified but because their resume weren’t really optimized for the job they were applying for, I had to ignore them. Sadly many employers do this as well. People fail to understand that the job seeker’s job is to make it easy for the employer to identify that you’re perfect for their particular job.

What I like about resume writing services is that they optimize your resume for the type of job you’re applying for. People are under the assumption that when you create a resume you throw every single job you’ve had on that resume. Bad move!

If I’m looking for someone that will be responsible for data entry, their experience as a “hamburger technician” or “paper flyer distrubutor” is irrelevant to me.

So that’s where a professional resume writer would usually come in and advise the job seeker that the resume should be optimized for data entry and would arrange the resume as such.

You wouldn’t necessarily know that just by reading and copying sample resumes from the web. But if you did then using free samples on the web would help. I know I have done so as well. But even when that I eventually hired a professional resume writer and it gave me great results when I placed my resume out there.

So I think it all depends on the person. I don’t think we can say that one size fits all. So I do agree with you there.

It all depends on the person and their situation. But again, I want to stress, just because you have experience in a lot of fields doesn’t mean it should be placed on your resume. You can unknowingly block yourself out of jobs because the employer feels you overqualified or just don’t match up to the job they had in mind.

In any event, Thanks again for your insightful comments Allie.

I really appreciated them. Hope there are no hard feelings.

Eddy

P.S. If I sound discouraging about landing a work at home job, it’s because that is truly the reality of situation. I can sugar coat it but I would be lying. Landing a work at home job is like winning the lottery and that’s why I try to provide people with various techniques to better their chances and it’s also why I recommend other opportunities like my favorite career: http://www.workathomenoscams.com/aff

If it were really that easy to land a work at home job there would be less people being scammed and most people wouldn’t be enduring long commutes outside their homes. So I just want to provide a reality check but at the same time provide folks other solutions like the ones found in our articles page:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/articles

In any event, I hope this gives you more insight as to why my position about work at home jobs.

Honestly, I’ve heard from many employers that a beautifully written and clear resume means nothing if you don’t have the qualifications, or if they talk to you and don’t like you. If your cover letter sucks, or you don’t include one, they miss out on the personal aspect, which is needed in most work-at-home jobs (as a lot have to do with answering phones).

Most employers I’ve ever talked to consider the resume to be an out-dated concept and would rather test your skills, regardless of where, when, or how you got them.

Here’s my advice: You want a work-at-home job? Have a data entry job for two years, a telemarketing job for 3 years, a tech support job for 5 years, and type 70wpm. Include in your cover letter that you understand that a work-at-home job has just as much responsibility as a job in an office. That sells itself, and is going to look better on some word-processor document than a mc-jobber’s 3 months of employment at a cash register will ever look, no matter who they pay.

Take it from someone who writes her own resume and works from home for 3 companies.

Just because you happen to write your own resume, without the use of a professional service, doesn’t mean you are “lazy.” I write my own because I have a diverse background (college education/experience in business, also have been a freelance graphic designer) and I have no desire to pay $75-$100 (or more) for someone else to do it.

There are many free examples out there of great resumes to be studied and used as base designs. Your suggestion, while very valid, is also very discouraging.