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Most home employment directories are operated by people who unfortunately have never really done more than a cursory check of what it is that they are advertising. They claim they only advertise "legitimate" home jobs, but they include such things as telemarketing (commission work), phone porn, phone psychic, and bogus "data entry" job listings.

The site owners are rarely aware of what they are truly advertising, their examination of advertisers for their sites is usually cursory, and based on the seller's claims of honesty rather than a hard scrutiny of what they are really selling. They have not actually bought the list, or checked out any of the employers.

The way that most of these home employment directories get started is nearly identical to the way that home business directories get started. Some mom thinks that it is an easy way to make money from advertisers. Only the market is so flooded that they cannot get any advertisers except for the scummy ones, and the site owner is too green to know what it is they are really marketing - or they become too desperate to care.

There are a few, VERY few, legitimate listings of companies that hire home employees.

There are NO legitimate job listings for available telecommuting jobs that I have EVER found! There are plenty that claim to have this, but NONE that actually do!

One fairly decent listing merely pulls job listings from Craigslist that mention telecommuting. The listings consist of positions which require a high degree of technical expertise, or which require partial on-site work, or a term of on-site work with the "possibility of telecommuting" over the long term. And the ads on their site are for other sites that are not 100% accurate either - they promote the "data entry" myth.

See, the dark secret about home jobs is that they are found in EXACTLY the same place you'd look for any legitimate job. That means HotJobs.com, your state Employment Listing, America's Job Bank, etc. The company that is hiring is not looking for a desperate mom who wants to stay home with their kids. They are looking for a reliable employee, so they will advertise that job where employees can be found - in solid job listings. These companies will have an assortment of job openings, and they'll just bundle them up and list them, regardless of whether they are telecommuting jobs or standard on site jobs. That means they will NOT go around to "home employment directory" websites trying to list their jobs. They won't even consider that!

There are VERY few legitimate listings of companies that have regular openings for telecommuters - this is different than a "job list", this is just a listing of potential employers. We offer one that has been screened for job types, and a few other people do, but it is hard to tell which ones are good and which are not.

In general, if they promise "Thousands of jobs to choose from!!!", or if they suggest that no experience is necessary, or if they fail to tell you that you will have to have specific equipment to get the job, then you can figure the list is NOT legit, and that it won't really offer you much help. In fact, if they promise JOBS, as opposed to EMPLOYERS, it is certainly bogus. A good one will give you some facts before you buy (about what it contains, and what the requirements are likely to be), and will tell you that it is NOT a job list, merely a listing of possible employers.

For a review of a real company that hires home workers, and more info on getting more employer names, go to: http://www.skinnyshoestring.com/reviews/alpineaccess.htm

Written by Laura Wheeler, MicroBusiness Website Developer, and founder of the MicroWebmasters Alliance

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