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various types of work at home jobs in the...
Service Industry.
People who work at home in jobs related to the service industry cover a wide
array of different jobs. Real estate agents, for example, make up a large number
of the total population of service-oriented workers who work at home. Of
course real estate agents are also involved in other work, such as showing
property, which can not be done at their own home, and they are usually also
required to take turns putting in some front desk time at the brick and mortar
real estate office, but most real estate agents enjoy plenty of flexible hours
that they can work at home each week.
Other work at home jobs related to the service industry might include
technical support personnel who provide phone support from home for a wide range
of products and services such as internet service, computer and other hardware,
cable, phone service, and much more. Technical support people who are
allowed to work at home usually communicate by the internet and phone and are
allowed to work virtually 100% of the time at home, being required to attend
occasional meetings at the main office. Help Desk personnel are related to
technical support personnel but can provide a wide range of various types of
help to clients on their own internal customers (who also work for the company)
or to external customers.
Virtual call center agents can take a virtually unlimited number of types of
calls at home and are used to handle sales and service for everything from auto
club membership to airline reservations. Most call center agents who work
at home are required to log in a certain number of hours per week and at
pre-agreed times, but they are often free to select the times that they work.
Customer service representatives are also sometimes allowed to work at home.
Test calls keep the workers honest and allow the company to be aware of
opportunities for additional training and to control the quality of the service
they're providing. Today's phone technology allows calls to be re-directed
in seconds. This technology obviously helps the work at home movement
continue to grow. In fact, hundreds of thousands of employees who work at
home work for telephone-related companies.
Virtual administrative support personnel can include virtual secretaries,
virtual assistants (the home-based version of the traditional administrative
assistant), research assistants and many others. Some of these work at
home positions also require time with the employer in one on one communication,
but these types of support personnel can provide a great deal of service to
his/her employer by working independently and communicating bottom line
information to his/her employer by fax, phone and/or the internet.
Other support personnel might include legal assistants, researchers, data
entry clerks, envelope stuffers, analysts, special event coordinators, travel
planners, public relations personnel, general assistants, freelance artists,
appointment setters, reservationists, writers, consultants and many more.
While many sales people still need "face time" with their customers in order
to do their jobs effectively, they are still able to work at home for a major
part of their job because they can make calls, analyze information, do research,
put together proposals and send emails and other correspondence from home.
Thousands of sales people do work at home. Sometimes these sales people
are independent representatives who may represent many different companies,
although many other traditional sales people are also working at home. The
support staff for the sales person... the telemarketers, appointment setters,
lead qualifiers, order takers, secretaries and sales assistants also work at
home very frequently.
The human resource field employs sales people and recruiters who are
frequently allowed to work at home.
Technical computer-related work at home jobs may include such positions as
programmers, system analysts, network technicians, internet security
consultants, systems analyst, systems operators.
Other types of work at home jobs which were once exclusively non-work at home
jobs may now include draftsmen, architects, cost analysts, actuaries, data entry
clerks, writers.
Read more about work at home jobs in real estate.
Read more about
work at home jobs in the financial industry.
Read more about creative
work at home jobs.
Read more about work at home jobs in insurance.
Read more about work at home jobs in wholesale trade
and other industries.
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