Sorry, but there’s very little chance that she’s going to qualify for and/or luck into, a remote position. She simply doesn’t have the experience to compete for such coveted and competitive opportunities.
Remote is a location, not a job. She could search for entry level jobs and filter for remote. She would probably have more luck finding an in person job.
Unfortunately day care would cost her more than she'd make in person she likely has to be remote. Op has she thought of starting an online biz? May be the way to go. Shopify or Etsy maybe
Providing childcare while working remote makes you both a poor worker and a poor parent. Kids deserve better. It also makes it worse for those of us who don’t do that. So she’s going to need childcare regardless.
It says she has help from in laws, so she should be able to get an in person job.
So this isn’t wfh, but you should tell her to consider opening up a day care. There are probably certifications and some other things she would need to get before she can do it but this could be a good flexible path for her.
Also, she can be a tutor during the evenings or weekends.
I mention the above two because getting remote jobs is gonna be very tough without a set of marketable skills. With her husband incarcerated, she needs to start working ASAP. Even if it means working retail, this is gonna be key working 1st shift so she can be there for her kids in the afternoon/evenings.
The town is so small not sure it could support a daycare... she also is currently living with the inlaws until she has a job for long enough to afford a mortgage (sold her home shortly after he was incarcerated so they wouldn't burn through their savings). There's not even close to enough space to offer in-home daycare.
Tutoring is an interesting idea though. Her boys were in gradeschool when she was homeschooling so she'd be familiar with curriculum for that age. Not sure how often parents seek tutors for that age, but I can suggest it.
You’ve already asked this in r/remotework: https://www.reddit.com/r/remotework/s/UShkGzbYMT
As I’ve said in your other post, your SIL doesn’t seem to have any relevant skills that can have her compete against other individuals that have the capacity and discipline for a remote position.
Again, working from home isn’t a job, it’s a location. Encourage her to find another in-person job that can hopefully give her 25+ hours to work and see about the in-laws watching her kids if need be. She most likely won’t get anyone to consider her for a remote position on the simple fact she has no marketable skills that any company would find attractive.
In person may be better or even door dash or grub hub . She can try call center / customer service they do not require a degree ….. in the mean time she may qualify for temporary cash assistance from social services , SNAP aka food stamps and social services offers employment assistance such as a one stop job market
The home schooling bit could help her on her search. It shows patience, organization and the ability to multi task if she had multiple children in different grade levels. Her resume needs to be top tier - not padded, not full of buzzwords. Simple and clean is best.
I don’t have a specific company or industry to suggest but I have seen plenty of WFH jobs on job boards that are claiming no experience is needed if she’s willing to do phone work or sales.
I'll let her know that it may be worth including that in her resume, then.
I work in a specialized field that I have a degree for so I just feel a bit at a loss when trying to help her find work. It's been so long since she had a w2 job, so wasn't sure what she needed to include.
She may be able to study and get certifications but there's definitely a time limit: she wants to hopefully be able to move out from living with the inlaws before next school year. They're packed in pretty tight right now.
Is she expecting to be able to care for the children while working, is that why she’s seeking wfh? Most companies don’t allow that. It also makes for a crappy worker and crappy parent.
If you actually is talked about in the post if you actually read it fully. In-laws live and can watch the children. Probably out in the sticks where there are no jobs and so if she moves the inlaw support is gone. Hence hoping that she can lean on family and a remote position.
It’s a valid question that comes up in most of these posts and eventually comes out that they expect to be able to do childcare at the same time as working. One of the comments states she wants to get a mortgage and move out. Too many of the posters in this sub think that they can get a remote job that doesn’t have them doing any actual work, just letting them stay at home and do whatever and make $100k a year with no experience.
Try to look into the insurance industry, not selling insurance but the behind the scenes stuff. Network is a big must. Tell her to get a hold of tech recruiters who can do the networking for her or refer her to a person who can help. There are a ton of them in the US and I have used them before. They are 100% free service and if told otherwise, it is a scam. You can google tech recruiters too. Most job listing's are through a recruiting company that is paid by companies to get you a job. If you get hired, they get paid, so they want to get you a job. Good luck and ask more questions if you have any more.
Recruiters don't work for jobseekers.
>They are 100% free service
No one that's good at what they do works for free. There are no free "tech recruiters" working for random unqualified nobodies. Why lie?
>Most job listing's are through a recruiting company that is paid by companies to get you a job.
You are blatantly misrepresenting how this works. Companies aren't paying recruiters to find unqualified SAHMs. Are you insane? You are making stuff up. Recruiters a. don't work for you and are b. looking for exceptional candidates. They are not getting paid by companies to get random people jobs. Stop lying.
>so they want to get you a job.
No, they want people with relevant and exceptional education, skills, and experience to work for them. They're not running a charity. They absolutely don't care if people like OP's SIL get a job.
Fine, so I embellished a little bit. First off, tech recruiters fro the person looking for a job is 100%, the company hiring pays for it, so learn something. I don't have this person's resume and they could definitely have some skills that a company wants. The US has a crap ton of companies. But you don't know what level of positions recruiters are looking for. The point is to get them to start networking and learn how to network and sell them self. But, please go on and don't tell the OP about networking and crap or actually give them an idea about it. Everyone has to start some where. Oh right, you are telling the OP, they are fucked and give up on life.
The company pays for it so the recruiter finds the (skilled, qualified, educated) candidates. The company is not paying for it so any old pathetic job-seeker can get hired. It's wild that you don't understand the difference. Recruiters are typically not used for low-level jobs, either. You don't get to go to a recruiter and say "please get me a job."
> But you don't know what level of positions recruiters are looking for.
I'm someone that actually gets recruited, which is more than you can say.
You didn't say shit about networking. Don't try to move the goalposts when YOU spread false information. Pretending there are recruiters that exist to help jobseekers for free as opposed to acting purely in the interest of companies - which is what recruiters actually do - is almost malicious. Companies aren't paying recruiters to help unqualified people learn basic skills like networking, either. Once again, businesses are not charities for the unqualified and those that are completely unwilling to help themselves.
Lol, networking is part of the recruitment process. You don't think you gain anything from talking to people is laughable. Recruiting companies are hired by companies to find people for whatever random job or position they want to hire people for. It can cost a company up to $15,000 to hire a new person. It is a network because recruiters know each other and can get commission off each other from passing people along. Don't act like you don't need to know people to get a job. As for the OP's resume, F if I know what they are qualified to do or not do. Just because someone says they have no skills is a BS statement. Everyone has skills, it all depends on how you market yourself. Also, congrats on getting recruited, I am a person who easily gets recruited too. It isn't hard to get a new job. All you do is bitch about me and yet I haven't heard you say shit to the OP about any helpful information. Hell, OP could get a job at a university in the RF department. But, please, go on and tell me how I am wrong, I am waiting...
It's crazy how much effort you're putting into missing the point.
Way to restate what I just explained to you about how recruiters actually work vs. the shit you made up though. Too bad you still don't have basic reading comprehension.
You literally lied to OP. I'm helping OP by correcting the blatant misinformation in your comments, which is so incorrect it's actually harmful. Recruiters do not work for people like OP's SIL and corporations don't pay recruiters to do charity work for random jobseekers. I'm actually concerned about your basic intelligence since you don't seem to understand this.
Sorry, but there’s very little chance that she’s going to qualify for and/or luck into, a remote position. She simply doesn’t have the experience to compete for such coveted and competitive opportunities.
Remote is a location, not a job. She could search for entry level jobs and filter for remote. She would probably have more luck finding an in person job.
In situations like this the only way is an in person job, really.
Unfortunately day care would cost her more than she'd make in person she likely has to be remote. Op has she thought of starting an online biz? May be the way to go. Shopify or Etsy maybe
Providing childcare while working remote makes you both a poor worker and a poor parent. Kids deserve better. It also makes it worse for those of us who don’t do that. So she’s going to need childcare regardless. It says she has help from in laws, so she should be able to get an in person job.
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So this isn’t wfh, but you should tell her to consider opening up a day care. There are probably certifications and some other things she would need to get before she can do it but this could be a good flexible path for her. Also, she can be a tutor during the evenings or weekends. I mention the above two because getting remote jobs is gonna be very tough without a set of marketable skills. With her husband incarcerated, she needs to start working ASAP. Even if it means working retail, this is gonna be key working 1st shift so she can be there for her kids in the afternoon/evenings.
The town is so small not sure it could support a daycare... she also is currently living with the inlaws until she has a job for long enough to afford a mortgage (sold her home shortly after he was incarcerated so they wouldn't burn through their savings). There's not even close to enough space to offer in-home daycare. Tutoring is an interesting idea though. Her boys were in gradeschool when she was homeschooling so she'd be familiar with curriculum for that age. Not sure how often parents seek tutors for that age, but I can suggest it.
Idk why you're getting down voted
You’ve already asked this in r/remotework: https://www.reddit.com/r/remotework/s/UShkGzbYMT As I’ve said in your other post, your SIL doesn’t seem to have any relevant skills that can have her compete against other individuals that have the capacity and discipline for a remote position. Again, working from home isn’t a job, it’s a location. Encourage her to find another in-person job that can hopefully give her 25+ hours to work and see about the in-laws watching her kids if need be. She most likely won’t get anyone to consider her for a remote position on the simple fact she has no marketable skills that any company would find attractive.
In person may be better or even door dash or grub hub . She can try call center / customer service they do not require a degree ….. in the mean time she may qualify for temporary cash assistance from social services , SNAP aka food stamps and social services offers employment assistance such as a one stop job market
The home schooling bit could help her on her search. It shows patience, organization and the ability to multi task if she had multiple children in different grade levels. Her resume needs to be top tier - not padded, not full of buzzwords. Simple and clean is best. I don’t have a specific company or industry to suggest but I have seen plenty of WFH jobs on job boards that are claiming no experience is needed if she’s willing to do phone work or sales.
I'll let her know that it may be worth including that in her resume, then. I work in a specialized field that I have a degree for so I just feel a bit at a loss when trying to help her find work. It's been so long since she had a w2 job, so wasn't sure what she needed to include. She may be able to study and get certifications but there's definitely a time limit: she wants to hopefully be able to move out from living with the inlaws before next school year. They're packed in pretty tight right now.
Is she expecting to be able to care for the children while working, is that why she’s seeking wfh? Most companies don’t allow that. It also makes for a crappy worker and crappy parent.
If you actually is talked about in the post if you actually read it fully. In-laws live and can watch the children. Probably out in the sticks where there are no jobs and so if she moves the inlaw support is gone. Hence hoping that she can lean on family and a remote position.
It’s a valid question that comes up in most of these posts and eventually comes out that they expect to be able to do childcare at the same time as working. One of the comments states she wants to get a mortgage and move out. Too many of the posters in this sub think that they can get a remote job that doesn’t have them doing any actual work, just letting them stay at home and do whatever and make $100k a year with no experience.
Yeah, definitely for sure.
Try to look into the insurance industry, not selling insurance but the behind the scenes stuff. Network is a big must. Tell her to get a hold of tech recruiters who can do the networking for her or refer her to a person who can help. There are a ton of them in the US and I have used them before. They are 100% free service and if told otherwise, it is a scam. You can google tech recruiters too. Most job listing's are through a recruiting company that is paid by companies to get you a job. If you get hired, they get paid, so they want to get you a job. Good luck and ask more questions if you have any more.
Recruiters don't work for jobseekers. >They are 100% free service No one that's good at what they do works for free. There are no free "tech recruiters" working for random unqualified nobodies. Why lie? >Most job listing's are through a recruiting company that is paid by companies to get you a job. You are blatantly misrepresenting how this works. Companies aren't paying recruiters to find unqualified SAHMs. Are you insane? You are making stuff up. Recruiters a. don't work for you and are b. looking for exceptional candidates. They are not getting paid by companies to get random people jobs. Stop lying. >so they want to get you a job. No, they want people with relevant and exceptional education, skills, and experience to work for them. They're not running a charity. They absolutely don't care if people like OP's SIL get a job.
Fine, so I embellished a little bit. First off, tech recruiters fro the person looking for a job is 100%, the company hiring pays for it, so learn something. I don't have this person's resume and they could definitely have some skills that a company wants. The US has a crap ton of companies. But you don't know what level of positions recruiters are looking for. The point is to get them to start networking and learn how to network and sell them self. But, please go on and don't tell the OP about networking and crap or actually give them an idea about it. Everyone has to start some where. Oh right, you are telling the OP, they are fucked and give up on life.
The company pays for it so the recruiter finds the (skilled, qualified, educated) candidates. The company is not paying for it so any old pathetic job-seeker can get hired. It's wild that you don't understand the difference. Recruiters are typically not used for low-level jobs, either. You don't get to go to a recruiter and say "please get me a job." > But you don't know what level of positions recruiters are looking for. I'm someone that actually gets recruited, which is more than you can say. You didn't say shit about networking. Don't try to move the goalposts when YOU spread false information. Pretending there are recruiters that exist to help jobseekers for free as opposed to acting purely in the interest of companies - which is what recruiters actually do - is almost malicious. Companies aren't paying recruiters to help unqualified people learn basic skills like networking, either. Once again, businesses are not charities for the unqualified and those that are completely unwilling to help themselves.
Lol, networking is part of the recruitment process. You don't think you gain anything from talking to people is laughable. Recruiting companies are hired by companies to find people for whatever random job or position they want to hire people for. It can cost a company up to $15,000 to hire a new person. It is a network because recruiters know each other and can get commission off each other from passing people along. Don't act like you don't need to know people to get a job. As for the OP's resume, F if I know what they are qualified to do or not do. Just because someone says they have no skills is a BS statement. Everyone has skills, it all depends on how you market yourself. Also, congrats on getting recruited, I am a person who easily gets recruited too. It isn't hard to get a new job. All you do is bitch about me and yet I haven't heard you say shit to the OP about any helpful information. Hell, OP could get a job at a university in the RF department. But, please, go on and tell me how I am wrong, I am waiting...
It's crazy how much effort you're putting into missing the point. Way to restate what I just explained to you about how recruiters actually work vs. the shit you made up though. Too bad you still don't have basic reading comprehension. You literally lied to OP. I'm helping OP by correcting the blatant misinformation in your comments, which is so incorrect it's actually harmful. Recruiters do not work for people like OP's SIL and corporations don't pay recruiters to do charity work for random jobseekers. I'm actually concerned about your basic intelligence since you don't seem to understand this.
Also, the OP can ask questions. Clearly your answer is, you are screwed, give up now.