Many
people are choosing telecommuting as an option to
bring in an income while being at home. Whatever
the reasons that we choose to work at home, the
one thing we all have in common is the problem of
locating legitimate jobs online. We often come online
with the idea that finding a job online will be
easy.

Unfortunately it’s not usually that easy.
What you will often run into are the scams for working
at home. Why is that though? We often find the job
search websites and plug in two common keywords.
These two keywords are often the reason many of
us give up on finding a legitimate job because all
that pulls up are the scams.

The keywords I’m speaking of are:

•Work at home •Work from home

* With the keywords “work at home,”
you’re almost 100% guaranteed to pull up scams
or business opportunities, and not the legitimate
jobs. Now don’t get me wrong, there can be
legit jobs in these keywords. Iit takes much longer
to find them, and it’s much harder to locate
them. In my 4 plus years of working at home, I’ve
discovered lesser used keywords that yield me much
better results.

Popular Keywords:

•Telecommuting •Telecommute •Telecommuter

* These three keywords are second to “work
at home” in their popularity. A pro of these
keywords is that many leads will be listed with
them. I find legitimate job leads using these keywords
every time I search with them. I also find the scams,
but overall these keywords are great to use with
your job search.

7 More Keywords to Use

•Must have home office •1099 •IC
or independent contractor •Virtual office
and virtual •Remote contractor •Off-site
•Freelance

*Next on the list are these 7 keywords. Next to
telecommuting, these are my favorite. Often they
will pull up legitimate jobs. You won’t always
find a good variety of leads all the time. Sometimes
the deeper you dig, the better the jobs and the
better your chance that hundreds of other people
haven’t found that same job.

Last 3 Keywords to Try

• Must have DSL    • Home-based    •
Home-based employee

* Last, I use these 3 keywords when finishing up
my job search. I don’t always find leads with
these keywords on every job search site I go to,
but the more job search sites you go to, the better
your chance you’ll find leads with all these
keywords. You can find a list of over 25 job search
sites at http://www.telecommutingmoms.com

Basically, the more keywords you use and the more
job sites you go to, the better your chance at locating
legitimate job leads. Even if it takes you a few
hours a week to do your searching, with all the
keywords and job search sites, it’s worth
it in the end if you land a job!

Another thing to keep in mind for speeding up the
job search is to know what a scam looks like so
you can avoid it. I’ve gotten to the point
where I can usually just read the title of the “job”
and know right away it’s a scam. If I do click
in a job lead, within a few seconds I can determine
if it’s a scam or sketchy. I wasn’t
able to do that when I first started out in the
telecommuting field, though. In my time of being
scammed and reading others being scammed, I discovered
the common scams and the common red flags. Read
more about scams, red flags, and links to research
scams at http://www.telecommutingmoms.com

In closing, I’d like to say that using these
keywords is a good start. When you find legitimate
jobs, really search through the description and
see what keywords they use. When you find a new
keyword, jot that down and add it to your keyword
list. The more keywords you use, the better your
chance of finding and landing a legitimate job!

Happy Job Hunting!

ABOUT THE
AUTHOR:
Nell Taliercio is the owner and founder
of www.telecommutingmoms.com
– which is a leading resource website with
work at home jobs and everything a telecommuting
mom would need. Come visit us today!

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