Flexible Jobs Working from Home: August 2009

15 August 2009

Preston Mum in running for home based franchise award

Sarah Walton, a local Mum, from Preston, Lancs, has been short listed in The Remote Worker Awards in The Helen O’ Grady Special Award and now stands a chance of winning her own home based franchise worth £15k. http://tinyurl.com/r43tv5

13 August 2009

Home based Recruitment Consultants

Home based Recruitment Consultants needed for an independent - going it alone? Have you always wanted to run your own recruitment business or is the time right for you now http://tinyurl.com/q6763d

Dance Teacher

Do you love dancing? Do you get on well with children? Can you teach them to dance?http://tinyurl.com/o9gy83

11 August 2009

Home Based Sales People

Spectrum Educational, the UK leading educational supplier in the UK, needs high caliber home based sales people. http://tinyurl.com/qf73aw

7 August 2009

Home Based Consultants

Home Based Consultants with or without Party Plan experience in Surrey with flexible hours working from home.http://tinyurl.com/kl4let

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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.

Remote Work

Remote Employment’s Managing Director, Ken Sheridan, believes companies will benefit with this online service as it is over 50% cheaper than conventional recruitment advertising and offers up to a 12 month’s flexible subscription, rather than a one off advert.

Sheridan is confident job seekers will gain with a 12 month subscription. Sheridan said: “The website is new with positions filling up all the time and we aim to have the greatest number of companies and individuals who want to work remotely, work at home with office type jobs, and home based business opportunities registered on our site. We are excited at the prospect of bringing these two parties together and to be at the forefront of this new employment trend. ”

Sheridan has worked on major brands such as Pepsi, Tetley Tea, Monster Munch, Jacobs Biscuits, Cow & Gate baby food, Sunkist Orange and Powwow Water both in the UK and internationally.
Sheridan’s business experience covers b2b markets, fast moving b2c products, short shelf life brands, brands that are over 100 years old, major product launches and business re-engineering projects.

Sheridan has managed and successfully grown large businesses as well as smaller subsidiaries of ‘Top 500’ multinational businesses using aggressive sales and marketing programmes to do so.

Paula Wynne

Paula Wynne has extensive PR and Marketing experience in all sectors of the market and until recently held the budgets and implemented campaigns for clients which include Wellington Country Park, The Duke of Wellington’s estate and Cannon’s Health and Fitness.

Paula contracted as Press Officer for Children’s Books at Oxford University Press and worked for a small independent hotel group in Newbury. During her time here she arranged media for Donnington Valley Hotel and Spa winning several awards including AA Hotel of the Year as well as The Vineyard at Stockcross receiving a 2nd Michelin Star amongst other prestigious awards.

Launch of 'Working Remotely' Website

Working remotely, or Teleworking, is being used by companies across the UK, yet despite its popularity there has been no recruitment service for this market sector to connect companies with job seekers.

Now, with the launch of a new website called ‘Remote Employment’, the huge resource of highly skilled business professionals who prefer not to work in offices can connect with the growing number of businesses who want to recruit people who work from home or from another remote location.

Remote Employment is an online recruitment service that benefits both companies and job seekers. With a subscription on Remote Employment, companies can gain direct, immediate access to talented individuals who want to balance their career with their domestic responsibilities.

15 August 2009

Preston Mum in running for home based franchise award