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post Aug 8 2018, 05:35 PM, updated 8y ago

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Is there a good job portal to look for Work From Home jobs? Because I can't seem to find any job portals that cater to remote work/work from home jobs easily.

I've spent about two weeks during my free time looking at possible ways one can explore work from home options and it seems like the best way to work remotely or from home, is if you apply to companies outside of Malaysia.

For those of you who do a have full time job working from home, what are some of the occupations can a person with good soft skills attempt? I use the word soft skills here because a majority of my work experiences requires communication and face-to-face talking, rather than something technical like IT, Coding, Digital Marketing etc.

Do you guys think that Malaysia has a lot of work from home opportunities, but we're just lacking the right avenue to explore these areas?


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post Aug 9 2018, 08:12 PM

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QUOTE(firefoxian @ Aug 8 2018, 05:50 PM)
Basically everyone dreams of that 'work from home' kind of job but in reality, it is difficult but it depends on what kind of work you are expecting from 'home office'. There are tonnes of freelancers websites where clients go to and post job offers and you get the chance to apply and send proposals. These websites do charge a fee (at least 20% from the what you will earn). These jobs vary from translation to web-designing to engineering sketches etc.

The company I used to work for (software engineering company) did offer one of its workers the chance to work at home, which is home office, because he mainly does programming and coding. So he brings the company's laptop to a different city, which is 7 hours away and he would be at the company every 2 weeks, depending on what discussion needed to be done with the bosses.
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QUOTE(tishaban @ Aug 8 2018, 06:04 PM)
Non technical work from home jobs = creative design (web, print, video) or writing (proposals, resumes, LinkedIn profiles, translation)

If you have a bit more technical background, your writing options expand a bit more eg. engineering/development manuals/translations, legal, business, regulatory stuff.

Go to Upwork and do your homework. You'll be competing for jobs globally, against people from around the world. If you're good you can survive, or it could be a supplemental income only. Why limit yourself to Malaysia....
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So to reply the both of you, I've actually signed up for websites like freelancer.com, upwork.com, the standard freelance gigs. I was there for a few days and I had a bad experience using the web. Because I ended receiving jobs that were scams in nature and I immediately unsubscribed from it. Thing is, I've noticed even Malaysian job portals can't filter scam-based job ads. Current, I've paid a small fee to use websites that are exclusively designed for remote work. It's an American based website that charges a sum per month, and I figured I'd subscribe to the website for a month and see what I'd get out of it.

Hence, the question, what roles could I take on. So far, I believe the only good role out there if we're looking at full term employment is remote customer service i.e.: live chat.

On the side line though, I am working as a freelance translator and am hoping to get in to freelance transcribing. That should bring up my financial/spending power up to Malaysia's minimum standard wage.
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post Aug 11 2018, 09:30 PM

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QUOTE(rara_ana @ Aug 11 2018, 09:10 PM)
oversea website, i did it before, but its freelance, if it, coding and etc very damn easy to get, payment is good because in USD. try to find international one, they paid by paypal
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Aside from coding, what other jobs have you seen so far that can be done from home and internationally ah?

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post Aug 14 2018, 11:19 AM

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QUOTE(syahrul47 @ Aug 14 2018, 07:33 AM)
I would say stop limiting your job search to "work from home". Even small companies nowadays (startup) can offer you such flexibility if you're not required to be in the office to do your work.

My first official job was doing an in-house marketing/branding for a Singaporean company based in PJ handling 7 countries (APAC). I was working regular office hours until my local marketing manager left and I had to report directly to Singapore which invalidate the needs for me to be in the office everyday.(travel to office and overseas once or twice a month for meetings)

4 years later (earlier this year) I accepted a new job offer doing Corp Comms and Awareness for an international bank with the thoughts of working in an office environment again. Turns out my whole team was working from home as well. I got lucky again. (only in the office for weekly meeting etc)
So yes you usually can work from home in a regional kinda job where maybe your boss will be in Singapore or some other countries and you are working with those other countries most of the time.
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Oh, I've tried that actually. I started out with startups to look for remote working options and couldn't find any. My previous job was based from home 70% of the time, whereas the other 30% I just had to walk in to deal with clients and events whenever needed. It was a very meritocratic job in that as long as you got the work done, you are free to do whatever you want for the day as long as no clients are around. Unfortunately, that company shut down two months ago and the management was undergoing a rebranding, some of us got laid off, including me.

QUOTE(natediaz @ Aug 14 2018, 08:17 AM)
how they know if you don't really work at home? like playing PS4 during office hour?
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Work from home jobs generally require self discipline and you are appraised based on your perfromance. So if something isn't quite showing itself, I'm sure they'll discuss said matter with you.

 

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