Recruiting Company for Telecommuters
May 24, 2006 at 5:48 am 5 comments
TeleCommuting Jobs is a website that matches employers with telecommuters. Their press release yesterday provides more information on how they go about this:
* Provide complete job skills and experience requirements in the job listing. So critical to narrowing the field to only those you want to apply… yet so often not given the little additional time it takes.
* Know the level of professionalism of the applicant's home workspace. All applicants at the Telecommuting Jobs website are required to include a link to their InSiteOffice in all applications, which shows how well-equipped they are for the job.
* Pre-screen. Narrow the field of applicants even further to those most suited for your job by including pre-screening questions in the job listing.
* Skills-test. Have top applicants you receive take the many free skills tests available and send test results to you. Or use the many other tests available to skills-match applicants for your specific needs…and even work-attitude test them.
* Interview applicants online. There are free, web-based collaboration tools to easily and almost instantly invite your applicant in for an interview. With a meeting room, real-time whiteboard, desktop screen capturing and Instant Messaging. Just one of the collaboration tools now being used to work with, supervise and time-manage TeleCommuters. Some available for free, most for free trial so you're not guessing at what works best for your situation.
* Project-trial your top choice for the job. The beauty of hiring a TeleCommuter is that the final litmus test of getting the best person for the job can be a trial on a small project…without a lot of cost or long-term commitment.
This looks good on paper. I have no idea how well they execute this, but if they don't do a good job I am certain a competitor will emerge to take advantage of the growing needs employers have for hiring home-based workers.
Entry filed under: Do You Want to Work from Home, Process Improvement, Tech.
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HR and Homeshoring 
1. Car17 | November 16, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Car17
I have enjoyed reading your article, thanks.
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John Breski | July 25, 2007 at 1:39 am
This service requries you to oay for a password to apply for a job. Not a good sign. Legitimate job search webites do not charge the job seeker. Also, the website looks cheaply designed as if it were just thrown together by an amatuer. This site could just be collecting fees without performing a service. I would stay away.
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Sol Levine | September 1, 2007 at 11:14 am
The commenter, John, by not reviewing the Telecommuting Jobs thoroughly before commenting, is doing a disservice to TeleCommuters by steering them away from the safest search site for work at home jobs.
“If a company requires initial payment from you in order to work for them, they are not legitimate.” does not apply when it comes to the Telecommuting Jobs job search site. In fact, you’ll find it the opposite.
Search any of the other free or fee job search sites for TeleCommuting or work at home jobs and notice the number of business opportunities posing as jobs, get rich quick schemes, Multi-level-marketing schemes, jobs that are advertisements disguised as job listings and jobs that require payment.
Now go to http://www.tjobs.com and notice the lack of them. You’ll find nothing but real TeleCommuting jobs screened by 11 years of experience by a staff of long-time professional TeleCommuters.
Ad income is not enough to fund site operation. Especially since we refuse all ads that have outstanding complaints with the BBB or RipoffReport or are otherwise unacceptable for our audience.
Also, to encourage as many TeleCommuting job listings as possible, we don’t charge employers to post jobs. If we charged for listings, we could not refuse scam job listings since the job posters would have already paid us. This is why you find so many scam job listings at sites that do charge.
As for site design, our website design was ‘thrown together’ by an award-winning graphic designer who evolved the site design over 11 years to make it as quick and easy as possible for job seekers and employers to get to what they need. Job seeker and employer successes here prove it works.
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John Breski | October 19, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Regarding the response to my previous comment, again, when one sees a fee required for a telecommuting job it is a red flag.
I have no way to know if the jobs offered by this company are legitimate or not and have no intention to pay a fee to find out when I can find telecommuting jobs without paying a fee.
I have worked from home for a number of legitimate companies and was never charged never one cent. There is an excellent and free website http://www.ratracerebellion.com that offers free advice regarding every kind of work from home job.
They have done extensive research to weed out all the scammers and have lists of real companies offering real work from home opportunities that pay hourly wages and there are no fees at all. Rat Race has links from the site that go directly to the employers application websites. This is something I did not mention previously but now that the company representative has criticized me personally by name I feel free to do so. Should the representative wish to counter my points again, I will offer more free advice to work from home job seekers so that they will not e exploited.
Having worked from home for years I have spent hundreds of hours checking out work from home “jobs” and as anyone else who has spent any time in this area knows, 99% of what is out there is bogus. Rather than spending hundreds of wasted hours checking all of them out and becoming frustrated the standard method of weeding them out is to see if there are any fees and if there are stay away.
I also spent a number of years in the recruiting business and likewise, legitimate agencies with authentic jobs never, ever charge a fee to the job seeker. Fees are collected from the employer. There are agencies that charge a fee and offer bottom of the barrel junk to the most desperate and naive.
Sol makes a valid point when he points out that most of what is out there is not good but he fails to add that anything requiring a fee is in the same subset. He also uses some very creative, but twisted logic claiming that he must charge the employee rather than the employer. The claim is that if employers were charged there would be no way to avoid scams, which I see as really admitting the company lacks the resources or desire to weed these out.
Again, as anyone who has ever had a real job knows, you never, ever get involved with an agency that charges the employee and this applies to telecommuting as well as brick and mortar jobs.
When I managed a Technical Staffing company, employers were glad to pay us a fee because we provided a legitimate service.
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Tammie Duggan | January 27, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I agree with Mr.Breski. Look for homeshoring and telecommuting jobs thru legitimate employment agencies. The same agency you would go to for a regular job.
These scams on the net abound for home employment. It is wrong to take advantage of our fellow americans who are in real crisis with all the layoffs and recession our nation is going through.
The only people making money on these scams are the ones who collect the fees and they in turn encourage you to do exactly what they did to receive a fee.
I have learned this from personal experience and paid the fees only to find out that they had nothing but a blueprint to follow of how they got my money to begin with…lol.