ODesk.com
The Internet has shrunk the world, but it has enlarged the world’s workforce. There are many online job portals that provide jobs opportunities for job seekers all over the world.
A case in point is Singapore, where foreigners hold a good portion of its service sectors jobs. I met an enterprising Filipino cashier at a restaurant and was presently surprised that as a Filipino she has a job many Singaporeans would want to have to. It turns out that she has found the job on an online job portal.
With the current recessionary mood, Singaporeans could well have improved their chances of employment if they would just be more enterprising like the Filipino, who enlarged her pool of job resources by looking worldwide on the Internet.
A possible reason why many are not doing is because, they just cannot let go of the comfort and belonging they get by remaining in Singapore. Perhaps an alternative for this group of people is jobs from around the world that can be sourced online but can be done at home.
A good online portal is odesk.com. This is a portal that match make job seekers with job providers. The key feature is that all the jobs are done remotely in the job seekers own home or local office.
The type of jobs are odesk are varied but they white collar jobs in these areas:
- Software development
- Web Development
- Graphics Art and Design
- Audio Video Multimedia
- Networking And Information System
- Administrative Support
- Writing.
- Data entry
So the range of jobs ranges from highly skilled to normal skills that any Singaporean with a GCE ‘O’ level would have or can easily acquired. Jobs for data entry, accounting and bookkeeping, email response handling should be well within the reach of many Singaporeans who want to have real work at home jobs.
The wages offer are not to be laugh at either. It would beat working at McDonalds( at last count, its seems most McDonalds counter jobs are staffed by people from China, Phillippines or India), you don’t spend time and money traveling, you work as many hours as you want and when you want in the comfort of your home.
Singaporeans who have make odesk their global employer are invited to share their experience here, comment freely. Internet connections in Singapore is relatively cheap and reliable and a PC cost less than SGD 500, working at home is an option to be consider.
