Rewards of Working From Home

 Communication is very very essential when you are working from home. At one of my work at positions, we use Wiki extensively. We have a place to post time off, both vacations and extended for management to check on. You are also responsible to send management an email to let them know when you are taking time off. It amazes me how many people do not do this, and of course they are then sent frequent emails and will receive phone calls.

Better yet, people will just quit without letting us know. It is pretty easy to recognize when someone has quit, they have not logged in to do their work for a few days, have not responded to emails or phone calls. I really do not understand this at all. Just send and email and resign!

Sometimes I wonder the real reason why some of these people are actually working from home. We are now going over a new hiring structure, as we are getting busier, and our client base is growing, we cannot have as many people “trying” out a job for fun!

My big tip of the day….Make sure you really want to do this! This is not for fun, this is not a hobby - it is work! I cannot believe how many people have wasted my precious time this past month. I understand people are out of work and are filling out applications left and right, but read job descriptions before you apply! Time is being wasted, people who may be a fit for a job are being overlooked!

I have had people who have lasted one day, and said “Nope, not what I thought it was!” Really because it was pretty detailed and so was the training. Other people accept and then I never hear from them again after numerous emails.  Others think they are going to accept one job offered  by a company to “sneak in” to get another position. NO that is not going to happen either. If you were hired for a certain position that is what you will be doing at least until you prove yourself.

Also, just because management all work from home they still speak to each other. This is the 21st century. There is email, the telephone, and IM. We all talk, we know the candidates, and discuss each person every step of the way.

Just like any job, if you want to succeed start from the bottom, take what you can, do good work and you will get noticed!