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Question: I need employment for work at home clerical duties, virtual assistance, typist etc.

Send me some information, if there is anything available other that “Internet Businesses”.

I await your reply.

Answer: You certainly aren’t alone in seeking work from home clerical and administrative work, and a lot of mums don’t have the finances or desire to start their own business and working for some one else from your own home is the most desirable.

These are the Top 3 Work Form Home networks around the world;

1. Hire My Mum is one Australian based boutique job board network that helps mums find work from home jobs, the focus is on task based roles that can be done in short bursts, like typing, bookkeeping, moderating, and appointment setting roles. Hire My Mum is launching an outsourcing program in 2009 to help deliver writing tasks for the Internet Marketing industry.

2. SheLancers is a UK/US based service for mum wanting to find freelance roles, which is a more independant contractor service rather than a job board.

3. Home Based Moms is a US based job board network for work from home moms. Like Hire My Mum they focus on asminstrative tasks as well as incorporate the freelancers perspective.

There are of course a lot of services out there trying to offer these same services but sadly some are not so genuine. It is important to not get scammed when looking for work from  jobs, so check our article about Online surveys, mystery shoppers, scams?

But the genuine services that are dedicated to helping mums find work will be able to help you. My one tip is to be very flexible, you just won’t find your ultimate job through these networks, they are looking for very specific types of work that can be done from home, and they are difficult to find even for the experts, so be open minded and you will find something that you will be able to paid to do from home.

Warm regards

BiziestMum

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Readers Question: I was just wondering if there was any work available for stay at home mums being a nurse? I have a 5 month old and don’t want to go back to work at the hospital.

Answer: It is important that we don’t stereotype ourselves when we stay home with our children, and choose to take on part-time work. There are many skills we have known as transferable skills; acquired from volunteer work, paid work and life experience. Being flexible is very important when choosing to work from home.

My personal experience has been there are jobs for people with medical skills, that can be used in call centre work (from home – inbound and outbound) that requires a certain level of knowledge as they are dealing with doctors, therapists and specialists. If you have typing skills you could consider extending your skills with a medical typists course to become a transcriptionist. This is a very busy field.

Other roles that come to mind are school nurse, medical receptionist, medical centre nurse, community nurse, medical blog writer, and running first aid courses. I hope this gives you some food for thought.

Leigh

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