Homeshoring Offers Opportunities for Job Seekers

Resume clients looking for work-at-home opportunities might be interested in a new opportunity, called "homeshoring." (Click to access a Business Week article on the topic.)

Homeshoring, defined, is "the transfer of service industry employment from offices to home-based employees with appropriate telephone and Internet facilities."

Companies employ stay-at-home workers to respond to inbound inquiries. Key players include:

• Alpine Access
• LiveOps
• WorkingSolutions
• Arise.com (formerly Willows)
  
• WorkatHomeAgent.com

These "cyber agents" held 112,000 jobs in 2005, and are expected to number 330,000 by 2010.