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Stevek, can you help us all with more info please?

Posted By: Bob E.
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, at 8:08 p.m.(pst)

In Response To: Legit Working from Home (stevek)

>> I applied to several work
>> from home companies that offer a call center for many companies but hire
>> people from here in the US and Canada. I received many rejections cause
>> according to them I was over qualified. (hmmm.. I never knew one could be
>> over qualified for a job before)

Yeah, that's too bad. I mean, what are they afraid of, that you might do too good of a job? If they are afraid that you might ask for raises, then I still do not understand it. They just tell you no and that's it. Makes no sense whatsoever to me when companies reject people as employees because they are considered "over-qualified". I guarantee you that McDonald's would never think anyone is "over-qualified". They will give you the job and if you work out they'll keep you. And if you ask for raises all the time because you feel since you are over-qualified you deserve more than everyone else, they'll simply can you eventually, simple as that. I just don't understand that whole "over-qualified" BS.

>> I was offered a job with a company who
>> just recently turned to hired employees instead of Independent Contractor
>> a few months ago.

Glad to hear it and congrats to you!

>> Any way I just wanted to say that there are some
>> companies that will hire you to work from your home and It will not cost
>> you one red cent.

Again, glad to hear it.

>> Just do some hard research and you will find the places
>> that lead you to them.

From my experience, the research ends without much to go on since the vast majority of WAH offers out there are just scams and it's very hard, if not impossible to sift through all the crap to find the little nuggets of gold.

>> I am not at liberty to place here or anywhere on
>> the internet where I am employed as it is in the rules I signed. It is
>> legit and above board and anyone can apply and can get hired on.

Ok, understandable. But can you list all the companies you know of that are legit and are at liberty to divulge and speak about?

>> Just look
>> anyone who is really wanting to work from home for a legit company. We
>> always say here sometimes "Google is your friend" Believe it.

As I stated before, searching on Google is pretty much almost 100% worthless, I find. The crap and scams outnumber any legit opps at least by 10K:1. WAH is big business - there are so many scammers in this niche that they flood the natural search results - let's not even talk about the sponsored search results. (And even if they are not scams, they are marketing business opportunities, not employment opportunities.) If that weren't so, then there wouldn't be so many people getting scammed with illegit WAH offers and coming to sites like this to ask/complain about them.

Can you also (or at least) offer any insight as to the best keyword phrase searches to use when looking for legit WAH employers?

And again, it would be great if you could share the names and websites of any legit WAH employers that you do not work for and therefore are at liberty to divulge? That would be a helpful gesture for this board and the many people coming here to look for WAH info and employment.

Bob E.

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