The FlexJobs Podcast: Career Advice & Job Search Tips

As parents know, juggling life’s responsibilities on a daily basis often makes them highly skilled at multitasking–especially during the pandemic.

The desire to have a career while being available for children can parlay into seeking an online job that melds a working parent’s schedule with the financial needs of their family. Looking for work-at-home jobs for moms and dads can be the ideal way to meet obligations at home and in a career.

According to FlexJobs’ survey of working parents, the ability to work flexibly is one of the top contributors to a healthy work-life balance. The FlexJobs database lists thousands of work-from-home jobs that offer parents the ability to work comfortably from a home office.

We've come up with a list of 15 stay-at-home jobs that are great for moms and dads.

Note: FlexJobs is the longtime leader in helping job seekers find the highest-quality remote, work-from-home, hybrid, and flexible jobs. You can sign up for premium-level access to our database of hand-screened job listings, as well as job search and career webinars, and many other great resources! Learn today how FlexJobs can empower your job search!

 Check out these 15 work-from-home jobs for moms and dads

1. Customer Service Representative
Median Pay: $37,907
Work-from-home customer service roles are plentiful. Workers who can take phone calls, respond to inquiries, provide customers with assistance, and complete administrative tasks will be well qualified for this type of role. You’ll need a quiet home office and the ability to learn and use technology and software programs.

2. Data Entry Specialist
Median Pay: $35,833
One of the more popular jobs for stay-at-home moms and dads, data entry positions can be highly flexible roles that allow you to manage your daily routine with your children by working while they sleep or are at school. Employers hiring for data entry jobs often require strong keyboarding skills and sharp attention to detail, which are skills that many parents already have.

3. Recruiting Coordinator
Median Pay: $45,485
If you think you might enjoy helping people get hired into a new job, a recruiting position may be a good fit. Recruiting coordinators typically assist HR personnel with looking over resumes, performing background checks, assisting with interviews, and onboarding new employees.

4. Proofreader
Median Pay: $43,126
Proofreaders typically are highly detail-oriented and can find even the smallest of errors. As a remote proofreader, you’ll ensure consistency, check formatting, confirm facts, check grammar, and more.

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FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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FlexJobs Career Coach, Rachel, joins Kelly in this episode of The FlexJobs Podcast to talk about why she loves giving FlexJobs members career tips and working at FlexJobs. Rachel shares tips to help job seekers looking to change careers and explains why it's so important to customize your resume for every job you apply for. 

Meet the Career Coaching Team here: https://www.flexjobs.com/career-coaching

Ready to get your career and job search on the right track? Our FlexJobs Career Coaching Team can help! Don't Job Search Alone!

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FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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We're talking all about the Research Team in this episode of The FlexJobs Podcast. Kelly is joined by Kelly Kirby, Senior Director of Job Research to learn more about how her team researches and hand-screens all of the jobs and companies in the FlexJobs database. 

Meet the entire Research Team here: https://www.flexjobs.com/research-team

FlexJobs has been a dedicated remote and flexible company since we began back in 2007. We understand what our job seekers want because each of us wanted the same when we were looking: good job opportunities that offer flexibility, so you can both pay your bills and live life to the fullest.

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FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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Isn't it better to have real people to support you during your job search? We think so! In our very first team interview, we're speaking to Jess, the Senior Director of Employer and Client Services at FlexJobs. 

In this episode, you'll learn more about what the Client Services Team at FlexJobs does to help job seekers and members every day. 

Want to contact Jess and the team? Head over to www.flexjobs.com/contact and get in touch with them today!

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FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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The email subject line for a job inquiry is a prime piece of real estate. It’s often what will either drive a hiring manager to open an email and review your resume, or ignore it. As a job seeker, you need to do everything possible to make your email stand apart. So, think about what you want to convey to a hiring professional, and write your way to a new career with a powerful job inquiry email subject line!

“Most of the time, we recommend the subject line contains your name and other vital pieces of info like the job title or requisition number,” says Brie Reynolds, manager of the Career Coaching Program at FlexJobs. “Depending on your situation, though, you may want to include other details to really make your email stand out.”

Read the full article here: https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/5-go-email-subject-lines-job-seekers/

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FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, the monthly subscription costs allow us to fully vet and verify all of the jobs on our site—ensuring that customers have a safe and positive job searching experience to find work-from-home jobs.

FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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If you are a relative newcomer to the world of remote work, you might be wondering what types of work-from-home interview questions to expect.

Fortunately, we’ve got you covered on some common interview questions for remote jobs and ways to answer them.

We're covering 13 questions including:
1. Do you have previous experience working from home?
2. Why do you want to work remotely?
3. Tell me about your favorite/least favorite job.
4. What does your home office look like?
5. How do you/would you minimize distractions when you work from home?
6. Why do you want to work for our company?
7. How do you schedule/prioritize/stay motivated?
8. What do you like best/least about working from home?
9. How will you coordinate and communicate with your coworkers to ensure the work gets done efficiently?
10. What does your ideal day look like?
11. How do you like to work? Do you need a lot of direction?
12. Give me an example of a project in which you were involved from beginning to end.
13. Are you comfortable with not being around people all the time?

Preparing for a remote interview is, in many ways, no different than preparing for an in-person interview. Just like you would prepare answers to commonly asked interview questions, you can prepare answers for work-from-home interview questions, too, and ace the interview.

Sometimes, though, a little extra help is in order. Consider meeting with one of our career coaches. They can help you prepare answers to remote job interview questions so you can stand out from the rest of the pack!

Learn more about our mock interview services here: https://www.flexjobs.com/mock-job-interview

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FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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There can be a plethora of reasons for having no work experience. Maybe you just graduated. Perhaps you never entered the workforce because you got married and had children, and worked as a stay-at-home parent. Maybe you spent years taking care of a loved one at home.

Whatever the case, there are remote jobs out there that don’t require a ton of experience and could be a great fit for you. Making money from home doesn’t always mean you need a degree or years of experience.

When you have no work experience, it’s important to focus on your transferable skills—skills you can transfer easily one job or area of life to the next. Consider these common transferable skills you may have gained that you could use in a future remote job to make money at home:

• Budgeting/money skills if you handled your family’s finances
• Project managements skills if you oversaw school, family, or volunteer projects and schedules
• Leadership skills if you’ve ever lead a project or person (think school projects or volunteer opportunities)
• Communication skills if you have public speaking skills, are a great writer, lead any groups, etc.

FlexJobs features lots of jobs to help you make money online from home (We’ve been helping people work from home since 2007). In this episode, we'll cover 10 remote jobs that don't require any experience. 

FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, the monthly subscription costs allow us to fully vet and verify all of the jobs on our site—ensuring that customers have a safe and positive job searching experience to find remote, work from home, and flexible jobs.

FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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f you’re searching for a job that allows you to work from home, you might be surprised at the variety of terms used to describe this type of job. Telecommuting, virtual job, remote job, home-based job – these terms are usually used as synonyms for one another. They all define a job that is not done from inside a traditional office.

In this episode of our career advice and job search podcast, we’re breaking it all down to help you find the remote work arrangement that truly “works” for you.

FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, the monthly subscription costs allow us to fully vet and verify all of the jobs on our site—ensuring that customers have a safe and positive job searching experience.

FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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Sometimes when you’re in the midst of a job search and you’ve been giving it your all, despite your best efforts, you just can’t find a job.

It can be disheartening not to see results from all your hard work, but don’t despair. By following a few simple tips when you can’t find a job, you can turn your job search into a success!

Read more on this topic here: https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/what-to-do-when-you-cant-find-a-job/

Job searching can be challenging, and when you can’t find a job, it can feel like you’re stuck in career limbo waiting for the right opportunity to come along. Focusing on improving your job search process, expanding your search, and taking breaks when you need can lead you straight to career success.

FlexJobs offers flexible careers in more than 50 job categories, including freelance, flexible schedule, remote, and more.

FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers with an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau. The monthly subscription costs allow us to fully vet and verify all of the jobs on our site, ensuring that customers have a safe and positive job searching experience. 

FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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There’s nothing like reading a job listing and feeling that this could be the perfect job for you. So you apply to the position—and then it’s crickets.

Unfortunately, this can (and does) happen a whole lot when you’re job searching. The hiring process can drag on for weeks (and sometimes months). If you really want to know if you’re in the running for the job, you should follow up on your job application.

Of course, you want to follow up without coming across as pushy. And, because of the pandemic, it’s hard to know how and when to follow up without seeming demanding during a time when many hiring managers already have their hands full. But, there are steps you can take to follow up on your job application without ruining your chances of landing a new job.

Read more on this topic at: https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/how-to-follow-up-on-job-applications/

FlexJobs is a subscription service for job seekers that features flexible and remote jobs. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a 4.7 rating from over 10,000 reviews, FlexJobs ensures that customers have a safe and positive remote job searching experience - without the ads, scams and junk found on other job sites.

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