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Work from your Apartment or Dorm Room on Your Own Time

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Work from Your Apartment or Dorm Room and Choose Your Own Hours

Imagine being able to work from your own home, doing a job you love, and
getting paid handsomely for doing it. Wouldn’t that be great?

Well, the good news is that this is not just a fantasy. It is a prospect that is well within your reach. Today, millions of people worldwide have established highly-successful careers as freelance professionals. Writers, designers,programmers and many other home-based consultants have discovered that freelancing offers the perfect combination of freedom, creativity, flexibility and profitability.

So do you need years of experience and fantastic qualifications to join these lucky people? Not at all. You just need a skill that you can offer to potential clients, and the willingness to learn how to run a home-based business.

Now there are a number of job sites dedicated to helping freelancers find work and stay busy. Go Freelance, for example, brings you hundreds of fresh freelance jobs like these:

Write for Discussion Boards: $1200 per week, plus bonus
A writer is needed for an ongoing writing project. You will need to write copy
to stimulate others into joining the discussion board. The writer needs to
actively encourage regular and meaningful debate on the relevant discussion
board, with some moderating of the content. You must have solid writing skills
and good ideas.

Administer a Web Business from Home: $4000 per month
A successful e-commerce venture is seeking a part-time virtual assistant to act
as a home-based office manager. You will deal with email correspondence, update
site content and deal with general admin issues. You should have your own
computer and Internet access.

Transcribe Author’s Notes: $80 per hour, flexible working
A publishing company is seeking a freelance with an eye for detail to
transcribe authors’ notes and recordings for a range of ongoing projects. You
must have a good grasp of English, be able to edit content into readable form,
and be able to submit work from home by email.

You can sign up for a trial subscription for just $7.00, and get instant
access to all the projects in the jobs database. So if you would like to get
started on the road to freelance success right now, click here to sign up
today
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What’s Your Major? Check Out Niche Job Boards

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One tool you can use to make better use of your time is checking out niche job boards. These job boards focus on a particular segment of the job market, such as tech jobs, executive jobs, 100k+ jobs, sports jobs, etc. These websites have jobs listed that sometimes aren’t on major job boards. I compiled a list of some of these niche job boards:

Dice.com – Technology
JustTechJobs.com – Technology
RiseSmart.com – High Paying Jobs
Beyond.com – 200,000 job postings, free resume posting
JournalismJobs.com – Journalism
EmailMyResume.com – Easily e-mail your resume and cover letter to recruiters
InternJobs.com – Internships
SnagAJob.com – Hourly Employment

There are lots more niche job boards out there, post in the comments about your favorite!

Resume Rabbit: My Thoughts

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I feel like most college students overlook the ‘big players’ of the job search market. This includes major job boards and services like Monster, Jobing, Yahoo Hotjobs, and Resume Rabbit. I decided to check out Resume Rabbit because I found it to be extremely time consuming to post my resume to all of the big sites. Resume Rabbit can post your resume to up to 88 of the top job sites at one time. This can save you hours, if not days, of time. Remember that recruiters not only post their jobs with PSU, they also post it to the general public on these big job boards. You are missing out on a lot of job postings if you limit your search to PSU career services. Resume Rabbit then e-mails you customized reports about jobs that have been posted on all of those job boards and if any of them match what you are looking for. Resume Rabbit also acts as a centralized login for the job boards: no need to remember 80 different login names and passwords. Resume Rabbit is also spam-free and comes with identity protection, so all information posted is confidential. I really like this service and will definitely continue to use it. Follow the link below to set up your Resume Rabbit account.

Here’s the easiest way to get a job. Click Here to access Resume Rabbit.