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Finding employment, contract work, employees or contractors on the Internet - European Telework Online's review of online services
European Telework Online has in the past taken a sceptical view of such programmes, but we believe the time is now ripe for such services to start to yield real value for employers and those looking for work. The main successes can be expected to be in conventional employment - where the employer and the recruit are near enough geographically to make this possible. However, some employers - and some companies looking to contract out work - are now prepared to (and in some cases keen to) hire on a teleworking or telecommuting basis. Some are prepared to hire across country boundaries. European Telework Online is evaluating as many of these programmes as we can and trying to search beneath what is often surface hype concealing a can of worms! We need your help to tell us your experiences. |
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Below are the links and commentaries on all the programmes we have looked at to date.
If you have direct experience of any programme listed, please add your views by providing a review. You can do this as a public review or you can tell us in confidence. This is not a complete list - if you know of other programmes that you would like us to review, click here to provide the details, or write to eto-info@eto.org.uk.
Work, employment and telecommuting sites
- 2Work-At-Home.com
A mix of free and chargeable contents and facilities. For example job-seekers can post a resume and employers can search resumes (CVs) for free. When we last looked (May 2001) there were only a few jobs listed, including mainly "business propositions" rather than jobs. There is also a "Freelance Marketplace" where you can bid for projects, but this is really a link to eLance!
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - 6FigureJobs
Job search website for professionals. Individuals can post resumes (CVs) and search for free. Employers pay a fee to post vacancies charged for searching the CVs. The database allows for countries other than USA but the overwhelming majority of vacancies appear to be US-based. There may be telework jobs in there but no way to tell - the search is geographically oriented and the search terms "telework" and "telecommute" only produce results if the advertiser happens to have used that term in the job description. It would be useful for the site to give some kind of indications of the numbers of vacancies by category, so as to avoid making searches which yield no vancancies.
Last reviewed 12 September 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - ants.com
ants.com started as a site matching projects to contractors but now this has been de-emphasised in favour of a software product (contact management). The site displays listings of contract projects submitted by employers, to which contractors can respond. Responses are also displayed online so the introduction becomes a kind of cost/quality auction. For example (May 2001) a database design project sized by the customer at 160 hours of work appeared to have bids ranging from £110 down to $5 - presumably these are per hour rates! Search interface shows categories and numbers of "open" projects, but detailed listing continue (irritatingly) to show "closed" projects. For example it suggested there are 1396 "computer" projects but only 42 of these were live (May 2001). Mainly USA based projects; not all are teleworkable. As usual some payment by results and business propositions.
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Association pour la Promotion des Nouvelles Technologies Administratives
The site offers a "free subscription" but this only applies to being on the mailing list for a newsletter. They ask for 100 French Francs per annum for a CV listing on their website; 500 Francs to be informed of invitations to tender; or 1000 Francs to add a link to your website. When checked in June 2000 there appeared to be no "offers of employment" and very few CVs, also no information about the number of visitors to the site. There are many places on the web where you can place a CV free of charge and also get links to your site free of charge. The "article of the month" in January 2000 was a report of an event held in June 1966 - we understand that it was published at APNTA site without the permission of the author. One further article has been added since (as at June 2000)Comments welcome please from anyone who knows more about this site - particularly anyone who has paid to subscribe to any of the chargeable services?
Last reviewed 8 August 2000
Add your own comments about this programme - Bigvine
Re-badged to "AllBusinsessBarter", this is a site offering a barter service for business-to-business transactions. The idea is that one member can buy services from another using "trade dollars". If someone buys from you you can buy from someone else in the network without using cash. But if you haven't yet sold anything you have to buy trade dollars from Bigvine. When a trade is made there is a commission charge of 3%-4%. We looked at a sampling of members, very few had made any sales.
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
Add your own comments about this programme - BizzAdvice
Advice service for small firms and start-ups. You can register to give advice or to get advice. There is a charging system. When last visited (August 2000) there were a few (5) "public questions" and a few advisers had handled questions but the traffic level appears to be light. There are also some forums, but these include a fair proportion of advertising stuff.
Last reviewed 8 August 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Career Space
An effort by a consortium of the ICT industry to contribute to solving the ICT skills shortage in Europe. The information has been enhanced we first visited it and the "job finder" questionnaire (which we described as "pathetic") seems to have been removed. However the site still cannot be said to be making a useful or novel contribution to the problem. If this is the best the industry can do we deserve a skills shortage. The big names behind this site need to take a closer look and get the contractor to produce something much more effective!
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - careers.wsj.com
Backed by the Wall Street Journal, this started as a site for "executive, managerial and professional jobs". Locations are USA (each state) plus a single "International" category. There are linked "global partners" in UK, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden. There is no reference to teleworking/telecommuting. The site has now linked with FreeAgent.com (a contract work site, see separate review) and with FutureStep, the online service of headhunters Korn Ferry, see that review also.
Last reviewed 12 September 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - ClickWork (Netherlands)
Job search and recruitment service in the Netherlands (in Dutch).
Last reviewed 1 February 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - DN.Jobb - jobsearch in Sweden
Job search and recruitments site in Sweden (in Swedish).
Last reviewed 28 February 2000
Add your own comments about this programme - eFreelancers
The site originally announceds "going live on 3 April 2000" but then merged with smarterwork.com, while still straplined as "UK freelance professionals". See smarterwork.com for details.
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - elance
Site for matching "buyers and sellers of services", or freelance contracting work. Buyers post RFPs (Request for Project), Sellers can respond to these or post their own "Fixed Price Services" looking for customers. The bids appear to be on public view, leading to potential price warring. Oddly, the site still carries a "beta" label one year after the "public launch of full version", which was reported as August 1999. Quite a few messages in the elance forum about bad experiences with non-paying or otherwise suspect customers/projects. Elance does run a payments system, but this is available only to those with a USA credit card (according to their help page, August 2000).
Last reviewed 8 August 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Employment911
Employment finding and recruitment site - USA only (registration requires USA State). Provides job search across multiple job sites. No mention of teleworking, telecommuting and a recent search found no jobs with the key words telework, telecommute, telecommuting. With these "multi-search" types of sites it can be very difficult to tell which of the jobs are still actively open. This one says "Search 3 million jobs" - unless there is much more structure to the search this is not likely to be helpful.
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
Add your own comments about this programme - Eoffice
USA-based service that handles contractual, invoicing, collection and tax reporting for freelance contractors. Part of FreeAgent.com (which see). Membership costs $274 a month. Strongly US-oriented.
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
Add your own comments about this programme - European Telework Associates
Brussels-based website that claims to find work for teleworkers and supply services to companies. The site provides simple forms for both teleworkers and potential customers, but in both cases there is a "next step" - a more complex form for teleworkers, and a "we will contact you" message for companies. There is no evidence suggesting that the service is undertaking the major promotional and marketing effort that we believe is needed to achieve success with such a programme.
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
Add your own comments about this programme - fish4jobs uk
Job search and recruitment service for UK with a good flow of jobs. Specify location by region or by county (or "any"), search on job title or "category" (meaning sector). No mention of telework/telecommuting. A user has pointed out that one can use 'Work from Home' as a search term, but this actually yields any job that has the term "home" in its description. There is also a "job channels" feature that helps to narrow the job search.
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Free Telecommuting Jobs.com
This site now has a quite effective search facility, clustering jobs within categories. However there appear to be very few jobs! There is also a facility to post a CV (Resume), but with relatively few resumes loaded. Perhaps the site is not being promoted effectively enough?
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - FreeAgent.com
Online service for "freelancers, consultants and independent contractors". No charge to individuals. Includes profile online, project search. When searched in August 2000 there appear to be plenty of contracts but many of them are "on site" and almost all are in the US or Canada. Quite a high proportion of the jobs are really "run your own business" opportunities or commission only posts.
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Freelance Work Exchange
This site now sells "professional membership" at $19.95 a month. Reports please from anyone who has signed up? It also still lists a small number of freelance market websites, all of which are also listed here at European Telework Online, and invites you to sign up for an email newsletter - we are checking the newsletter and will comment on that shortly. The site is effectively a referrals advertiser for the services that it lists, so its no surprise to find that its reviews of all the sites are glowing testimonials! Our own approach is to try to provide a more balanced description of all sites we know about, and to encourage user reviews.
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Freelancers.net
UK based site at which freelancers (self employed specialists) can create a profile of their skills, plus a portfolio showing work completed, and can specifiy what types of contracts they are looking for (eg telecommute). Companies looking for a contractor can post information about projects and can search for contractors. The search is skills based and the skills are mainly ICT product skills with a strong emphasis on web-related work. There doesn't appear to be a search facility but the jobs can be listed by category. No evidence of the success rate.
Last reviewed 31 March 2000
Add your own comments about this programme - FreetimeJobs.com
The idea at this site is that you have "a few hours to spare" and would like to earn extra money. You have to register to view the jobs database, then you bid for jobs selected from a single long list. Jobs are displayed ten at a time, in no apparent order (perhaps order of submission?). The registration lists most countries. A fair proportion of the jobs listed are really "business opportunities". There appears to be no follow through to find out what happened once an advertiser and a freetimer get together? We'd like to hear from anyone who has had paid work (as opposed to business opportunities) through this service please!
Last reviewed 31 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Friends From Home
Suggested by Marcy Sanders, who says she has found clerical work through this site. The site charges a membership subscription of at least $US 49.99 for six months for the basic membership, up to $US 99.99 for the "all in one" plan. In general we don't feel that people seeking work should pay, since in the normal market the employer pays the costs of recruitment, advertising, search etc. On the other hand its hard work and frustrating to plough through job sites looking for telework, if this service works it may be worth the money. We'd appreciate hearing from others who have paid to use this or other paid services?
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - gazeta - jobsearch poland
Job search and recruitment service. In Polish. Click on "What others have said" (below) for comments from a Polish-speaker resident in UK.
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - HEA Home Jobs Database
A job finding service for home based employment. Claims that "About 8 out of every 10 people that join HEA find home employment". Entry cost to jobs database is $10. There are other services and a $30 "3-service deal" - job placement service, resume forwarding service and access to job database for a year. Focus is USA.
Last reviewed 28 February 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Herbalife International
A multi-level marketing organisation (like Amway), that signs up freelance distributors to sell its range of dietary and health food products.
Last reviewed 28 February 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Home Employment Agency
UK based. Aims to "bring together" employers and home based workers. Employers and potential employees can complete online forms at no charge. "Online vacancies" showed only one (self-employed) offer at 3 May 2001. There is no information about how many employers have actually filled teleworker posts through this service - comments welcome please from anyone who has tried?
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Home2Work.com
USA-based (and USA-focused) site where job-hunters and employers can post advertisements. One attractive feature is that the types of "classified ads" are clearly categorised and the numbers of ads in each category is shown. However this needs re-thinking for categories reach a high volume of postings. For example there is a category for "Job Listings - Telecommute Full Time/Contract Nationwide" (for USA but not for global telecommuters). At 16 February 2001 this section listed 147 postings, by 1 May 2001 it had split into two, with 242 in one and 59 in the other - quite a task to crawl through on the off-chance that there might be something suitable to your skills. Also there now (May 2001) appear to be two near-identical categories of this type. The first few "full time jobs" we looked at were not paid employment, they were of the "get rich quick" or "run your own business", payment-by-results type. Some ads from people looking for work are mixed in - better editing needed!
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Home-Business-Centre
UK site launched Summer 2000 with some views and suggestions about home-based working plus a jobs page that still didn't (as at February 2001) appear to have any actual job advertisements. Indeed there are several sections of the site that as yet are fairly content-free. For some reason the long welcome message in the home page is ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS - odd!
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Homeworking.com
A free resource to help people wanting to work at home and/or obtain jobs of any kind. Includes classified advertisements with a small number of "Jobs offered". There was a Job Search facility but this now seems to have been replaced by links to other services.
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - InnoVisions Canada Jobs Bank
This is a badged "front" linking to monster.ca, a generalised job search engine focused on jobs in Canada. No recognition of teleworking/telecommuting, since the first "selection" criterion is "Location"!
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Internet Home Employment
This site presents a long and busy home page, with links to pages selling advertisement space. However the main offer at the site itself is to sell you a set of get rich quick guides. When we first reviewed the site it sold an "electronic book" called "Legitimate Home Employment" - on sale at $19.99. By February 2001 it had gone to $35.00, "reduced from $50"! Now (May 2001) there is another "special offer" - if you buy before midnight tonight (2 May) you get lots of ebooks and other goodies for only $49.99, reduced from $99.99. Need we add that the "value" is claimed to be $700. All with lots of capital letters and exclamation points!!!! Be interesting to see what the offer is next week. We asked for comments from those who had bought in, the two respondents to date wrote rave reviews . . . but perhaps they bought in to the reseller scheme?
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Job Cafe
This site may have failed - no content found as at May 2001? (it was) A site offering to match people to job opportunities. Linked with the StepStone group. There is an open jobs database that can be searched. Many of the jobs appear to have been on the database for a long time, so there may not be a purge process? There is a facility to list only "recently posted" jobs. No mention of teleworking? All in Italian. Any information please?
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Job Options (also known as deja.com Career Center)
Users can search for job advertisements, search for an employer, post a resume (CV). Also "career tools" that are strongly USA-centric. Jobs mainly USA - there was an "international" section but with (apparently) few jobs when we looked in February 2000. In March this section seemed to have disappeared.
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Jobpilot (UK)
A standard site that lists and searches job advertisements and enables job seekers to upload CVs. Jobs are classified as "permanent", "entry position" or "freelance contract", locations as "UK", "Euope" or "Worldwide". Ads can be posted and searched in different languages, which is an unusual and attractive approach to internationalisation. No mention of teleworking or off site working.
Last reviewed 27 March 2000
Add your own comments about this programme - JobServe (UK)
A site focused on "IT vacancies in the UK", but with 10% of its vacancies outside UK. Job seekers can search for contract work or "permanent" employment and can specify the recency of postings, for example "within 5 working days". The search terms "home", "telework", "off site" may produce teleworkable jobs, but with no specific provision for teleworking. You may also provide a CV (resume) that will be circulated to recruitment agencies. There is also a directory of recruitment agencies. Employers are asked to "call the sales team".
Last reviewed 31 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Jobvertise
This system provides a resource through which any website owner can add a "jobs page" to their website, as well as providing a fairly typical job search facility direct to users. Four of the first five "jobs" found when browsing the "most recent 100" were actually commission based or run-your-own-business types of jobs.
Last reviewed
Add your own comments about this programme - karriere direckt
A job search and recruitment site in Germany (in German). At March 2000 it reported 1702 employment offers and 958 job seekers - an unusual postive ratio of jobs to seekers. Comments from users sought please!
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Kasamba!
A question-answering service. Visitors post a question, "experts" answer the question and may offer their services for a fee, which they determine. Anyone may register as an "expert". The idea is that clients will search for the expert they need and start a dialogue leading to chargeable work. Lots of experts signed up, there appears to be no way to know how many clients have appeared. But the "public board" carries very few questions, a year after it was launched.
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - KeyChange Outsourcing Register (Australia)
A facility in which contractors can enter a personal profile that can be searched by prospective clients. The search is based on keywords entered into fields, would be greatly improved by adding some self-declarative information about the database contents, eg how many people there are in some obvious categories. Keyword search is not an effective way to search for skills/experience.
Last reviewed
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Mondus.co.uk
Online services for matching buyers and sellers of services and equipment. You can register as a "supplier" or as a "buyer". As a supplier you complete a profile that identifies the kinds of products or services you can provide. The system will email you when new "orders" arrive that appear to match your profile, then you can view the requirement and propose your solution. For services the main system doesn't allow you to see competitors' quotes. For tangible products the buyer can choose between a request for quotation or an open "price contest". There appears to be a regular flow of requests for some services, particularly web design and build. The service appears to be optimised for buyers and sellers who are both in the UK.
Last reviewed
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Money-At-Home.Com
A site with many links under many categories, most of which advertise either other sites/programmes or books etc about home based businesses. The main weakness of the site is that there is no effort to critique any of the items listed or linked, everything is promoted with equal enthusiastiasm.
Last reviewed
Add your own comments about this programme - monster.com
Despite the cutesy name this is a reasonably effective job search and recruitment facility for those who are seeking employment in a particular area, and are prepared to invest quite a lot of time in trying a number of search approaches. It would be greatly improved by the provision of some self-declarative search assistance. There is no reference to teleworking or distance working and the only way to find jobs that could be done at or from home is hit and miss. Since they have some hundreds of thousands of jobs listed this is impractical!
Last reviewed
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - NuAspect.Com
A facility for contracting out elements of software development to programmers through NuAspect as an intermediary. There is a membership fee (company or programmer $20, consultant $200 - the consultant acts as a project manager should the customer need this). At March 2000 the introductory free offer was still open. There were 207 programmers registered for work.
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
Add your own comments about this programme - OfficeTech
A web based "virtual staffing" service offering to match employers with teleworkers on a contract or employee recruitment basis. Teleworkers can register without paying any fees or subscriptions, employers are charged a finders fee for successful introductions. Teleworkers "world wide" are invited to register. When matched to an opportunity the teleworker has to negotiate terms with the employing company direct. OfficeTech charges the employer an introduction fee. The specialisation listed for teleworkers are a mix of office/clerical tasks and some rather generalised professional tasks such as "Information Technology" and "Web design and development".
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - OutSource2000
The main offer here is a Home Workers Forum, entry cost $29 for six months, $45 for a year (note: a $5 "processing fee" has been added since we first reviewed this site). Members can search jobs databases, get assistance with creating resumes (CVs). Instead of the subscription you can buy their information on disk. Much of the "software" is of the kind widely promoted through "Get rich" schemes. The "job search" that you pay for appears to be just links to existing job search engines you might well use for free. Note that Outsource2000 also now has an "Affiliates" scheme under which people get paid for promoting the site and its products, so you may wish to be sceptical about any glowing testimonials you read! For details see entry under our "get paid to surf" listings.
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Outsourcing it Corp
A (US-based)service aiming to match employer requirements with telecommuter skills. No evidence about their success rate, or the amount of active marketing they do to attract employers, but the online approach is very weak indeed: "EMPLOYERS: If you would like additional written information about our company or a quote of our services, please contact us." Not at all clear either what are their charges and who pays? Note: This site appears to have developed little since we reviewed it a year ago. Reports from users welcome please?
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
Add your own comments about this programme - PanEris
The blurb here says "PanEris is home to a collective of web developers working together as a virtual corporation." Though its not overtly clear there appears to be an invitation to join. The site seems to be a working demonstration of the team's capabilities. Recently (February 2000 moved to a new domain, many of the "old site" pages hadn't changed since 1998 when last visited in January 2000. There is a collection of "message boards" at the site, but difficult to understand the connection between the message boards and the stated purpose of the site as a whole. The private discussions of the team appear entangled with public discussions, and it appears that anyone can join. Interesting . . . . for example, there is an apparently open discussion of "Sales Leads", including potential customers' phone numbers. Comments from someone connected to the Paneris "community" would be welcome please!
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - ProsForHire.com - Find Professionals
A site introducing contract workers to potential employers. One of the early arrivals in the field, the site seems to have failed to reach sufficient volume of use to be productive, since the hit counter on the home page showed only a little over 7000 hits between August 1999 and September 2000. By May 2001 this had risen to 10,479 - an average of less than 500 hits a month! One reason for this low growth may be the fact that you have to register and at first it looks as though there is a fee for job seekers, since it says "Free to employers". Very oddly, when we tried to use the only open access facility, "Find a recruiting firm", the response said "Server too busy", which seems unlikely? Comments please from anyone who has used this service.
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Regulus Consulting
Also called "RemoteWorkCentral.com. A USA-based company providing a range of outsourcing services on a teleworking and non-telework basis, plus consulting and services for companies adopting telework methods. There is a "Careers" section that describes the range of types of work available through Regulus and example profiles of current opportunities. Projects may include "full-time telework, on-site work or travel". The job search facility claims to search many databases but doesn't come up with any telework jobs? You can submit a resume but see "What others have said" below.
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - ResumeBlaster.com
ResumeBlaster is a service for creating and posting a resume (CV) to selected recruiters. Although US-based and US-oriented the directory promises to list recruiters in other countries. We looked at "UK" but got a very long list that included some USA-only firms. There is no charge to recruiters so being listed doesn't suggest they are actively using the service. We'd like to hear from anyone who signs up for and uses Blaster, please.
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - SeeMeResumes.com
A service that distributes your resume (CV) to companies that are recruiting. Claims to have 5,500 recruiters listed (up from 4,500 since Feb 2000). There is a charge, from $49-$79 (originally $69) for different levels of service. Recruiters may join free of charge. However there is no mention of any screening of recruiters, so some of the 4500 may be people/companies looking for the names and details of job seekers for other purposes . . . . as usual our advice is not to pay for finding work. Comments please from anyone who has used this servive?
Last reviewed 3 May 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Smart Eric .com
A UK based website for self-employed professionals and freelances, mainly working from home. Freelancers can add their details to a CVs database, which prospective customerc can search. We found site response rather slow, but this may have been a transient routeing problem. There are pages with advice for self-employed start ups and marketing, plus a discussion forum (see separate entry).
Last reviewed
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - smarterwork.com
A UK-based commercial "finding work" site that is focused on contract work and where the mechanism actively favours a teleworking approach. The site maintains a register of "experts" able to work in particular types of projects, and enables "clients" to post project details against which experts can bid. A list of current projects with current lowest bid appears on the public site, registered experts get more detail. Project approval, payments and resolution of disagreement are handled by the service. Uniquely, so far as we have observed, the "experts" are screened through an online testing or an offline screening before being allowed to bid for projects. Of two tests taken our tester failed one but passed the other (you do get another chance and we passed at second try!). There are now ten categories of projects - Business Consulting, Research, Document Production, Web Build Support, Legal, Software Development, Graphic Design, Writing & Editing, Tax, Translation. In some categories projects are further classified by language (English, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish). One issue is the very wide range of bid prices at which "experts" offer to complete projects. For example one February 2001 project showed top bid over GBP4400, lowest bid below GBP40, a factor of 100 times.
Last reviewed 16 February 2001
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - StepStone
This review based on StepStone's UK service. Services appear to vary between countries, see for example Jobs Cafe in Italy, which has a very different interface and apparently a different approach. Other countries appear to run the same model as in the UK. Job seekers can register free of charge. The search includes local country and other European posts. Search response appears to be slow? Employers pay to advertise posts, and can include links to their own sites. Many advertisers are recruitment agencies. The charging rates are not disclosed at the site? No mention of telework or temporary/contract posts, this is an online facility for conventional recruitment. At March 2000 the UK site reported 15000 UK vacancies and 77000 "in Europe", across a wide range of sectors, with 60,000 job seekers' profiles.
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
Add your own comments about this programme - Telecommute Magazine
Once you get past the big graphic that is the home page, and worked out that you click on the image to get into the site, there are lots of features, including a forum and a links page, plus a facility for loading your profile and a job search facility, which links to HeadHunter.net, JobBank USA and Workaholics4Hire.com.
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Telecommuting Jobs
Job seekers can search a database of jobs. The job description is written directly by the job advertiser, enabling direct contract. Most of the "jobs" we examined appear to be freelance contracts rather than employment, and usually at fairly low (or undisclosed) pay rates. The job lists generally show only a one or two word title so you have to look at many to see whether they are suitable for you. Employers almost all USA based. At 13 March 2000 there was a confusing advertisement on the home pagefrom IHA (The Independent Homeworkers Alliance) - it looks like the site's search facility!
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - TeleMart
Website of a European project about matching employers to teleworkers. Confidence is not helped by the fact that (a) the "News" page at January 2000 promised that Telemart "will be opening for business in November 1998." and (b) key links such as the "Teleworkers Forum" don't work. This was still the case in March 2000. If you cannot move from the home page. look for the button to the bottom right of the page (hidden in a narrow window).
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - TeleTask (Australia) Skills Register
A skills register in which teleworkers and other freelancers can enter a profile, which can then be searched for by prospective employers or clients. The client search facility is entirely keyword based and would be much improved by the addition of some database summary information and an alternative, categorised search option.
Last reviewed
Add your own comments about this programme - Telework Unlimited
Telework Unlimited provides a free of charge service in which teleworkers can post their offers of skills and employers can post offers of work. The offers of work are relatively few in number but some appear to be both genuine and current. Most offers are in German. The site owners also undertake telework related projects. Alhough most menu items are in both English and German, most of the detailed content is in German only.
Last reviewed 25 November 1998
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - The People Village
UK-based service for matching freelance contractors with companies/projects. New start, Summer 2000. An unusually comprehensive interface for capturing contractors' capabilities but a rather constrained facility through which the contractor must specify "job requirements". No visible mechanism for browsing to see how many and what types of projects are currently available, which reduces the credibility of the system and may limit its appeal to contractors. As with all such systems much depends on the marketing effort to get the attention of employers. The current scope of the site appears to be limited to the UK and there is no "telework" focus.
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Add your own comments about this programme - The Real Deal on Telecommuting
The site promotes a "How to" guide to getting work as a teleworker. Originally this was priced at $7.00 by email, $9.00 hard copy. One year later (May 2001), $7.95 email, $23.95 hard copy. There are also some articles online by the same author, all well-written.
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What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - TWS - Teleworkers Web Site (UK)
A directory of UK teleworkers. Individuals can add their profile, which is then listed by area (UK county) and by category of their specialism. The site was updated at the end of 1999, removing existing entries and requiring teleworkers to resubmit.
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Web Staffers
This is a subscription based site, specialising in home-based employment/work. They "create a resume (CV) for you" and "submit it to thousands of employers who are looking for people to do home based work". Subscription ranges from $US 29 to $US 65. If you try out this service or have already tried it we'd like to hear about your experiences. To date we have had one favourable and one very negative comment (see "What others have said" below.
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What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - WebZone2000 Home-Based Employment Opportunities
A section within the WebZone2000 site (see entry). There is a jobs database, but it is not well constructed - the only search is by broad category and all items are then listed in longish text descriptions. The rest is mainly to do with home-based businesses rather than employment.
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Add your own comments about this programme - Workaholics4hire.com
A jobs database. USA oriented. In order to search you are required to complete a profile and subscribe to an email newsletter. There are some added value services for employers, and a discussion forum.
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Add your own comments about this programme - Work-At-Home-Dot.Com
A no-charge site with many links to information and services related to opportunities for home based businesses. USA focused. Many of the links are to "get paid to surf" or "make money working at home" types of "opportunities".
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
What others have said | Add your own comments about this programme - Zeus: Teleworking in Greece
In addition to a links page and some explanations of teleworking, the site invites visitors to "join the Greek Teleworking Network", which appears to be part of the Telemart programme, but the Telemart programme itself appears to be defunct. Further comments welcome please?
Last reviewed 13 March 2000
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