Finding Online Jobs

This is not a tutorial for earning money on the internet. This is a howto for telecommute freelancers to learn how to use search engine keywords to search for and find online freelance jobs which are in your field of expertise.

Yahoo! Hotjobs searches for the hottest jobs on the net for you.

The biggest problem on the net is that there's so much information that it's next to impossible to categorize and find exactly what you want. It's sort of like gold nuggets mixed into muck and you have to wade into the muck to get the gold. Using the right keywords can save you a heck of a lot of time and help you find the right job. Let's get down to specifics:

Do you type in "freelance writer jobs" or "writing jobs" or just "freelance writers"? No can do, Dickens. All these keywords just take you to the same resources and websites, such as this blog, which fleece the unsuspecting and naive freelance writer, which would be you. There's hundreds of thousands of writers looking at the same handful of writing gigs listed on these websites. That's not going to get you anywhere. So? Think. Think. Who needs freelance writers? Publishers and those who sell written matter to publishers!

Web content writer? Web content providers.
Book reviewer? Get your book reviewed.
Essay writer? Custom essays.
Ghost writer? Literary services.

Do I have to reach in and ring some more bells in your head? You don't search for say "hack writing jobs". You search for people and companies who publish or help publish your writing. If you're a translator, you search for companies who provide translation services. Ditto for transcription. You find these companies, check out their site to see if they have any available openings and then you send them an email describing yourself as an untapped genius waiting to be discovered. Even if they don't have an opening.

The one exception I would keep away from this list is for data entry typists. You don't search for companies who provide data entry services, cause they most likely won't be hiring you cause most of them are based in India or Brazil or Russia.....

Wouldn't this method apply to offline and fulltime jobs also? Most likely would. But how would I know? I haven't done a honest day's work in my entire life.