I need your help. I know that many of you are interested in working from home. I work from home sometimes too. My work often involves long conversations with people on the opposite coast, and I have to conduct these phone meetings in the late evening, so I do it from home. It does involve real work, and so do the work at home opportunities I have compiled.
I got started putting this together a few years ago when a candidate of mine needed to work from home for personal reasons. I had no clients that offered telecommuting positions. He did end up getting a job from the work I did for him. He was a database administrator, and I had placed him a couple of times in his career, so I did this for him as a courtesy.
It was at this time that I started to do more extensive research to find companies outside of my area of recruitment, Engineering and Information Technology, to see whether there were also positions where the average person could legitimately make a living from home. I was thinking of self-publishing and marketing it, but I wanted it to have true real time value and quality, and I know that what a company is looking for today may not be what they’re looking for tomorrow. I didn’t want to have people spend money on something when they’re truly in need of some sustaining position to have to weed through dozens of jobs that may not be suited for them, or may not be hiring at that particular time when they’re already very stressed out looking for work.
I’ve recently decided to market it privately to some of my candidates by offering people only five or six positions tailored to their background and experience that I know are hiring at the current time. Also, some of the positions I have require a person to reside in certain states to be considered. I was wondering what you would consider this kind of information worth. I’m looking for a dollar value if I were to offer someone five or six positions tailored to their abilities and needs to which they could apply and possibly be hired working from home. There are no guarantees that someone will be hired, so that needs to be taken into consideration when determining the value, although there are a few of these positions that almost anyone can do, but the compensation for those is more of a part-time income than a sustaining income. So what do you think? For how much should I sell this service and information?
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Asking a candidate to pay for an informational service such as this is a very new thing for them, and I have no clue what to charge.
Placement Agencies in India flourished during the 60’s to 80’s when there were lesser number of agencies and demand for job was also comparatively lesser. These agencies normally took a month’s salary from the companies for placement of a candidate. Towards the end of 20th century, demand for job as also the number of such agencies increased. There was competition among such agencies and then onwards these recruitment agencies started taking one month’s pay each from the companies as also from the candidates. Over and above this, these agencies used to even take a nominal fee from candidates for registration of names.
At present there are agencies that supply people for jobs such as house keeping, security etc. and themselves pay salaries to candidates at rates decided mutually, whereas the companies pay the agencies in bulk. Here the candidates never or seldom get to know the amount of salary per head received by agencies from the companies.
In your present case, I feel it would not be a bad idea if you took an initial amount from the candidates towards registration say a few dollars, as per your discretion and looking to the demand. This could be either a one time fee (in which case it could be a higher amount) or a nominal fee. Once a candidate is registered with you, you would keep contacting companies who would require candidates. And when ever an opening came up, you could send the candidates suited for the particular post. If selected, well and good and you get your fee of one month’s or one year’s salary as the case may be. If not selected, the candidates registered with you would have the option of being called again as and when an opening came up.
I hope I have not complicated things. In short, my driving point is that you could contemplate on charging a nominal registration fee from candidates as well for a start. Have a nice day.
I heare an interview with Robert Kiosake, of RichDad/PoorDad, in which he expounded the benefits of a MLM and if he were in similar situations as many people today, he would do it.
He didn't recommend a particular one but noted how they provide support, education, training and opportunities and the harder and smarter you work, the better you do. An opportunity to grow into so can leave a job you don't like or just to supplement your income. Of course you have to have the right personality to be successful.
I'm not offering business opportunities. I'm offering work at home positions. Some are direct W-2 positions working remotely, and others are on a 1099 contractual basis working from home, but none is what you would classify as a business opp.
If they are 1099 contractual positions than a percentage would be practical for the employee (or independent contractor). I, personally, would not pay a flat fee.
Per MLM's. I've been involved with many of the years. Some were lucrative, others losers, however, I still believe in the concept.
You have not understood this article. I have work at home positions, several dozens of them. You know how people are always looking for work at home opportunities but they are not always legitimate? Well, I have ones that all are, but they aren't get rich quick schemes, and most every one of them requires an application to be filled out and many also require resumes. The thing is that I will give my existing candidates who have recently been laid off the opportunity to learn about positions that they can take on from home. I want only to know how much I should charge them to give them a list of 5 or 6 companies that are suited to their backgrounds that they would not otherwise know of so they can apply for these positions. How much do you think I should charge for this information?
But I know absolutely nothing of the whole scenario, just trying to help. :-)
Thank you so much for this answer. I have decided to sell if for $15 and see what happens. It's just information, and most of the positions that I'm informing them of will only pay about $20K, but when someone's unemployment has run out and they haven't gotten a job in their profession, $20K is better than nothing.
There's almost a guarantee that they will get a job from one of the positions. That's not an obstacle. I have over 150 positions in this list that hire constantly, so if their first 6 positions I send them out don't work out, and that's a very slim chance, I'll just send them more at no charge because I know these people. Thanks again.
So, think of it this way, if we send you info and resumes and you have to review to do your match and give a list of 5-6 jobs, then you should see how long it takes you to do your part, add cost of mailing (or could email), give yourself an hourly value, and then charge for your time plus 15% for providing the acces leads which WE DO NOT HAVE.
Does that make sense? When we did crafts for our annual home show, that's how we basically set a price; cost of materials plus time, and if it was something most people couldn't do, then we would bump it up accordingly the level of talent used to make the item.
This is not a big match up endeavor. I'm just saying that there are some of these jobs that require you to live in certain states even though the job is being done from home. For instance, some require typing skills and some require research skills, but they're all pretty basic stuff. It will take me no more than ten minutes from opening an email from someone interested to sending a return email with 5 or 6 links. That's all this really involves. They will have to send their own resumes to these companies in most cases because that is required for a lot of them. I'm not doing any recruiting for them. I have no relationship with any of these companies.
I've already done the work by compiling the list, and it does need to be maintained because sometimes these companies are not hiring because they have a quota filled, so I have to keep track of that and just update my database with that info.
Thank you very much for your added insight here, though. I really appreciate it.
I would say at least a hundred a book.....??? This would be perfect though to be able to work from home... The benefits of not going through the hassles of everyday life just to work would be very appealing to me...
I am totally weak in this area of charging for a service. As a matter of fact I am too chicken hearted and rather than charging for a service, I normally dole out even my earnings to others. Compassionate you would say? Yes, that is it and even my wife at times rebukes me for being too lavish and generous while giving instead keeping a strict control over our earnings and bank balance.
But one thing I would definitely advice you, looking to the amount of hard work you put in, that is, no human being would ever dare to withhold or deny you the fee you suggest to them being fully assured of a gainful service and cent percent result out of you. Have a nice day.
I think my biggest mistake is that I gave too much information here. All I'm ultimately doing is selling information. There is absolutely no recruitment here. That's my profession, and I could give advice on that. I could sell this list to almost anyone because there are work at home positions in that list for the average person, but I'm just choosing a warm market of people I know to try it out. In the future, I might just put it out on the Internet.
If you were a coin collector and I had information on where you could get the best deals on coins, and I sent you a partial list of some of the places where you might have a very good chance of finding the coins you want, how much would you pay? That's a little different, but the basics are it. You and Linda and vickey are so concerned about whether I am going to get compensated fairly, and I do think that is so very lovely of the three of you, but that's something I have to determine. I just wanted to know your opinion based solely on a buyer's perspective.
You are correct that sometimes I short sell myself on these kinds of things with individuals, but my profession involves contract negotiations with big and small companies, and I'm very good at leaving no money on the table in these negotiations, so I should apply that to anything I do to sell my work outside and on the periphery of this profession too, so thanks for the reminder.
If you're interested, I'll be happy to share a couple with you. If you let me know what you like to do, I can send a couple of links that might suit your interests better. Just be sure to let me know what state you are from in case you are in one of the states in which the jobs require residency.
I think that your service sounds really great, as there are so many who would really prefer to work at home, rather out in the business world!
Yes, and thank you...I think there are also many who no longer have the choice in this job market.
When I first started putting the list together, I thought of a membership site, but I don't have the skills to put together an interactive website like that, and the cost of having someone do it would drive the cost beyond this simple concept so I would have to start offering something more sophisticated on an ongoing basis. I tend to like the least effort for the most profit, so I nixed the idea.
You never do know when I'll get a new idea that might be feasible for a partnership, though. I'll let you know. Thanks!