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Working from home is here, and it's real. In Great Pajama Jobs, I show you:

 How to find a great remote job and a great employer

 How to create a great remote worker résumé

 Great ways to showcase your skills

 How to get past the electronic screeners when applying for a position online

 Best practices to avoid scams

Great Pajama Jobs is your playbook to inspire you to find the freedom of working remotely and earn a paycheck doing work you love and are skilled at doing. The range of opportunities is astonishingly varied, ranging from coder to transcriptionist to virtual assistant to customer service to translator.

In this book, you will find:

 Up-to-date resources for finding a solid work-from-home job

 Practical work-from-home jobs, with the nitty-gritty details, pay range, and qualifications required

 My workshop, teeming with information to help you land that perfect work-from-home job, including a résumé revamp, best online job boards for home-based positions, how to beat the automated screening systems, organizing a productive home office, time-management tips, networking advice, tax counsel, and help with saving for retirement

 A go-to list of great work-from-home companies

 Advice on how to avoid work-from-home scams

 A newfound perspective on working from home and what it offers beyond avoiding the typical 9–5 daily commute

 Tips for collaboration, scheduling meetings, and sharing ideas even when someone can't meet face to face

In these pages, you will discover the ultimate guide to great remote jobs, where to find them, pay ranges, and qualifications needed. I'll give you the action steps to take to find a job that works for you and guidance on how to succeed as a remote worker.

Great Pajama Jobs is divided into three parts:

 Part I profiles work-from-home jobs. You'll find lots of professional occupations and some that may require retraining and adding a degree or certificate. And you'll also find a large selection of jobs geared for someone who wants a little income but doesn't want to do much heavy lifting. Many of these jobs offer flexible schedules—a week, a month, a few months a year, or even on-again, off-again contract work, as well as full-time positions. Don't be put off by the random jump from a professional full-time position to a more casual part-time retirement one.Each entry in this section follows this format: the nitty-gritty, the pay range, and the qualifications needed, with a smattering of job-hunting tips tossed in. Note that pay ranges vary widely from employer to employer and city to city and by your experience; they are listed here as a guideline.

 Part II presents snapshots of companies with a history of offering solid work-from-home positions. These firms are industry leaders in supporting remote employees to create partnerships where both employee and employer succeed.

 Part III is “Kerry's Great Pajama Jobs Workshop,” with advice on finding a great work-from-home job using specific tools: résumés, interviews, social media, and networking savvy. It includes a section on the nuts and bolts of how to work from home productively and profitably, paying taxes, saving for retirement, the inner quest to find work/life balance, dealing with loneliness and isolation, managing your time effectively, and more.

I deliver the professional advice and strategies I've been doling out as a career strategist and as a retirement and personal finance expert and journalist for more than three decades with thousands of followers and millions of readers.

I have developed this material through extensive reporting and interviews conducted for my expert columns that appear on Next Avenue, Forbes, MarketWatch, The New York Times, and AARP.

Those outlets have allowed me to get a conversation going with thousands of people to see what kind of advice they want and what really helps.

My advice also stems from the worries that I hear from audience members at the end of one of my keynote speeches, or during a panel discussion at a conference, or when a listener calls into a radio talk show where I am a guest to ask a question, or when someone calls or emails for one-on-one career guidance.

These requests for advice persuaded me that there's a burning need for this kind of frank career direction.

You can dip in and out of the chapters as they apply to your situation. Throughout, you'll find websites, job boards, and books to help your search.

There's something here for everyone, a remote job-hunter's smorgasbord. My aim is to help you discover job possibilities that spur your imagination about how you can make the most of your talents to create work that, well, works for you.

At the very heart of it, I wrote this book to help you find the work you love with the flexibility that will help you prosper.

Kick off your slippers, let's go job hunting!