11 July 2008

Work at Home Party Plan

Rep for success
As a party plan representative for an online gardening company you will have the opportunity to work totally flexible hours to suit you by selling very popular products for a great commission. In return for your time and a small outlay for your start up pack you will receive a full range of support from the Girlie Gardening management team and attractive commission based remuneration. See more details on Remote Employment.

10 July 2008

Get Paid to Wine, Dine and Travel!

If you've ever thought being paidto eat at the leading restaurants, being handed luxury cars to test drive, being sent on all expenses paid holidays to the most luxurious resorts and receiving a steady supply of amazing lifestyle products to sample was the domain of only the luckiest TV presenters and celebrities, think again. ViVo Magazine managers get all of these benefits and more. It is all part of the job! See more Details on Remote Employment.

Work at Home Recruitment Consultant

iworkLife is a home-based recruitment franchise aimed at teaching franchisees to recruit talented people for businesses within their local community and how to charge the business a fee for the service. What iworkLife has designed is a business model to fit around you, your family life and the commitments that come with that so you can work at home.

No Experience Needed
iworkLife offers a real opportunity to run a successful home-based business that has good earning potential, and that also complements your previous working experiences and one that requires no previous recruitment knowledge. See Franchise Opportunities on Remote Employment.

9 July 2008

Home Based Legal Development Consultant

This online virtual solicitors practice is niche in many ways and its business development programme is equally special. As such it is looking for a proactive legal development officer who will be able to build business relationships to generate leads from other legal practises, in-house counsel and MD’s /FD’s of SME businesses.

Candidates should shall proven experience of business development in the legal profession ideally and past experience of business generation in the SME sector.The successful candidate will enjoy flexible working arrangements to match and a competitive commission only payment structure that rewards success.Would suit a home/teleworker with hours to suit. Unlimited earnings potential to the right candidate. See more details on Remote Employment.

What Women Really Want ...

... is to work from home with flexible working options. Whether it is video conferencing in the conservatory, brainstorming in the bath or writing a report in the gazebo, flexible working comes in many different forms. One of which is to own a home business.
Woman PilotsWith over one million self employed women piloting with their own business, it is easy to see why they have more time for family and hobbies, spend less time commuting and have reduced stress levels. Yet in the current climate do women still want to run their own business?

According to a new survey by Remote Employment, working around family is the main reason why women want to work from home and own a home based business। Combined with flexible hours and maintaining a career, a home based business is the perfect ingredient. Add a good income and the spice of life falls into place. The perfect recipe for a home based business.

Commenting on the poll results, Paula Wynne, Co-Founder of Remote Employment, and a Mum who has always juggled family and work, said: "We started Remote Employment to fill the gap in the job market by offering a connection to employers and people who want to work flexibly, remotely or work from home. A huge majority of people surveyed said they want to 'work around family' with flexible hours."

According to the South East Women's Enterprise Network, 51% of self employed women work part time compared with 14% of men। They also state that self employed women are more qualified than their male counterparts, yet men are twice as likely to start a business। As women account for a large slice of the working population and only a handful of them have a fear of failure, it explains what 'women-entrepreneurs' really want.

As well as flexible and home based jobs, Remote Employment lists Home Business Opportunities for women (and men) who want to take the plunge and work for themselves. Paula said: "Flexible working is highly sought after by parents who want to juggle careers and family life. There is a fabulous variety of businesses that women can do at home and we aim to showcase them all."

The survey also showed that money motivates only 13% of women while 47% prefer flexible employment as their work incentive। Technology advancements over the past few years has increased business mobility and given millions of parents more control over how they do their work. Paula believes working flexibly, remotely or working with a home business increases job satisfaction and work production, and gives people an all round improvement in work-life balance.

For more information on Remote Employment, contact Paula Wynne on 0844 800 8355 or paula@remoteemployment.com.

20 June 2008

How to Ensure Interview Success

Check our guidelines for 10 ways to prepare for your next interview. Go armed with our Q & A checklist and get the job!

Questions about the Company:
What do you know about our company?
Research, research, research! Check the company website for details about their products and services, their size in the marketplace, their reputation, their competitors their corporate image, their goals, any problems they may have, their management style, who works for them, what skills they have and a general history and vision of the company। This is vital to show your interest in them and the possible job they could offer you। Keep it factual and to the point so that they can tell you how they define their own business। Don’t go without this information। And don’t go without even having looked at their website and know what they do!

See Remote Employment: Job Seekers: How To Ensure Interview Success!






10 June 2008

Flexible Working For Everyone

Flexible working is here to stay! And it will soon be widely available to as many as 4.5 million extra parents with teenagers as well as little children, after Gordon Brown recently announced his work-life balance agenda.

Responding to The Chancellor’s announcement, Paula Wynne, Co-Founder and Communications Director of Remote Employment, a website dedicated to connecting Employers with Job Seekers who want to work flexibly, remotely or work from home, said: “This move from the government to support flexible working will be welcomed by millions of parents across the country!”

A staggering ‘one in seven’ mothers work flexible hours with 12 percent of them using a ‘Term Time’ working arrangement. Home working franchises and online businesses have helped many Mums to pursue a career and maintain an income with the opportunity to work from home.

However, Dads are worse off. It is estimated that they see their children one month a year less when compared to time spent with their children by their partner. Some sources estimate that UK workers as a whole spend 47 days a year commuting to and from work, a huge majority of this could be men. Flexible working is a possible cure for both these disadvantages.

Currently only parents of children under six years old have the right to request flexible working as well as carers of the disabled. The new agenda extends the right to all those with children up to the age of 16. Mr Brown said: "The right to request flexible working has been working for lots of people over the last few years. It is working for parents of young children and now it can apply to children under 16 where families need time off to help bring them up.”

Flexible working has moved steadily up the agenda since April 2003 and now Gordon Brown aims to improve the country's work-life balance by encouraging employers to provide flexible working across the workforce.

A Government survey in 2005 found that 14 per cent of British employees had requested a change to their working arrangements since the ‘right to request’ was introduced. Twenty-two per cent of parents of children under 6 have requested to work flexibly, and 81 per cent of these requests have been fully or partly accepted.

The survey also showed that requests are significantly more common from women than men, with 36% of women with dependent children under the age of six making a request to work flexibly between 2003 and 2005, compared with only 12 % of men with dependent children under six.

Flexible working is much more than part-time working. It can mean working compressed hours, flexi-time, term-time-working, working remotely or working from home. It includes job-share arrangements which can bring additional benefits for employers as each partner brings a different set of skills to the job.

Flexible working is highly sought after by parents who want to juggle career aspirations with family life. Employees may choose to work flexibly to meet childcare or caring commitments, as well as allowing them to study or pursue other interests outside their work. More often than not the career ladder takes a back seat as Paula experienced: “When my son was little I wanted to take him to school as well as fetch him, and be there for homework and after school activities.”
This meant Paula’s career aspirations often took a nose dive and she accepted jobs that may not have been ideal, but flexible working gave her the pleasure of watching her son having a swimming lesson or playing football after school.

Over the years Paula dug her heels in and only accepted positions where an employer allowed her to work flexibly. When she couldn’t work this way any longer, she simply side-stepped and freelanced or outsourced her office skills and experience to small companies, giving her son the continued support throughout his secondary years of education.

Asked if she regretted her decision, Paula said: “I have never regretted it. Everybody should have the right to choose how they want to work. I was very fortunate to work flexibly and take work home. I could have been up before dawn to get the train to London and home after my son was in bed, but then what’s the point of having a child if you never see them? I could have done a lot more, learnt a lot more and gained more recognition, but at least I never missed my son’s first goal or his first performance in the school play. That is far more valuable to me!”

“It would have been great to work in my dream job, but they were always out of reach with hours and commuting. This is the reason I started Remote Employment, it was difficult to find flexible jobs and maintain my career. We aim to be the best site for connecting employers and job seekers who want flexible work.”

Paula and her business partner Ken Sheridan, a Dad of two teenage sons, want Remote Employment to fill the gap in the job market by offering a connection to employers and job seekers who want to work flexibly, remotely or work from home. Remote Employment is for everyone who has the need to work this way.

Paula believes that the government’s new flexible working agenda, alongside home based business opportunities, which is being driven by the huge advances in technology, is the way forward for the majority of parents. It provides them with more control over how they do their work, increases job satisfaction and work production, and an all round improvement in work-life balance.

For more information on Remote Employment's modern recruitment solutions, contact Paula Wynne on 0844 800 8355 or paula@remoteemployment.com.

How to set up a home office ...

Before you set up a work station at home, check out our Seven Top Tips on how to work from home:

Your Home Office
Ideally, you will have a spare room to create a home office. If not, a corner of another room, will be fine as long as you are not constantly distracted in the family fast lane. Set up your kitSet up your computer, files and phone to give you maximum comfort for long hours. Have enough plug points for PC, printer, phone, scanner, mobile charger, fax machine and answer phone. Even better get an all in once mod con to save on a jumble of cables and wires.

Pick your desk location
You should be able to see the door of the office from where you are sitting or at least more of your surroundings. Beware of facing the garden and the bird bath – too tempting to watch the world go by! A hard chair will give you backache so spend a little extra on a good one.

Working Hours
Working outside 'normal' working hours helps to balance your work and home life so don't feel guilty dashing off to take the lads to footie after school, as long as you get your work done. Catching up in the early morning or later in the evening works well, but also watch out for going OTT. Make sure you close down and walk away at some point or the family will go hungry.

Have a breather
No matter what kind of work you do or what home you do it in, you can go bonkers if you spend 24 hours a day at it. Get out, whenever you can, to clear your head and to see other people. Use lunch time as a good break to pop down to pick up groceries for dinner, step outside to feed the birds during your coffee break or walk the dog around the block to clear the cobwebs. This is also a great way to mull over a document or get inspiration for new ideas.

Keep in Touch
Have no fear that your social life at work comes to an end if you leave your office to work from home, in fact in some cases your relationship with your colleagues may improve. Email is instant but be careful of 'funnies' – they can eat up a huge chunk of time. Chat through business issues by phone and meet for a quick bite every now and then.

Goal scoring
Give yourself little goals and objectives and then reward yourself when they are complete. Make sure family and friends know your hours or days of working at home and stick to that. Don't be tempted to pop over for a coffee or cook a large meal. Give yourself this time as a reward for getting up early on a Monday to finish a long-winded report. Or if you score well with a new client take five to put your feet up before the school run. Whatever incentives work for you, use them to motivate yourself to balance your time around your other responsibilities.

If you have any suggestions on working from home, please submit your articles to grace@remoteemployment.com.

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