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How to use Google jobs near me

There are so many ways to find jobs online, whether in your local labor/retail market or remote work/telecommuting, but Google has just made looking for a job easier in the most streamlined way.

Google is smart, no doubt about it, and getting smarter every day. While Google prefers job posting sites to pay for their job postings, many have circumvented the pay-per-click feature, and just exploit the search engine’s organic results at no cost.

No problem, then Google should get full credit for providing those customized results to Google users looking for work, either in-person or working from home, whatever suits you. A few tweaks to the search algorithm and voilà, you have Google’s brand of ultimate job postings board.

All you have to do is to go to Google and type jobs near me in the search box and hit enter (or click the magnifying glass) there you have it: A preview of the top few jobs will show, but if yu look below the sample list and click on “100+ more jobs” BAM! All the local job postings near you from all the job boards pop up in one convenient listing of search results.

Want to refine your search even more add a quantifier to your search query, such as “part time” would look something, like this:

You can select jobs from pre-determined categories or refine your search query even more.

And if you are looking for remote work, just add “telecommute” to your query and see everything you can apply for today that you can perform your work from home.

If you have the inclination to surf through the top 10 rated job posting sites for 2021, then take a look at these:

The Top 10 Best Job Search Websites of 2021

  • Indeed: Top job search engine
  • Monster: Classic monster job searches
  • Glassdoor: Excellent resources for employer data
  • FlexJobs: Telecommuting and remote jobs galore
  • The Ladders: For managers and leaders on their way up
  • AngelList: For upstarts and new businesses news
  • LinkedIn: Recruiters’  and head hunters’ top resource
  • LinkUp: Up-to-date job search listings
  • Scouted: Scouts in search of college graduates
  • Snagajob: Hourly job resources

CraigsList

But that’s not all, craigslist is another resource, though it is not considered to be one of the top ten job posting boards, it still receives over a million job postings per day. Originally, job postings were free, so the offers were not that good and included a lot of spammy or scammy offers. Since they started charging for job postings, it has helped to filter out the riff-raff.

Facebook Jobs

Whether you are a fan of Facebook, or not, whatever you think about Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 billion fortune, his job posting service on Facebook is becoming a contender in the job search arena, and you might like to check it out at https://www.facebook.com/jobs/

We Work Remotely

I have a friend and associate who has been working remotely for years, he is a nomad, travels around in his RV around the USA, free as a bird, yet is always employed whenever and from wherever he wants. He uses We Work Remotely for all his teleworking gigs.

This seems a natural fit for telecommuters looking for side-gigs for a little moonlighting adventure in their professional lives.

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‘Tis the Season to Find Jobs Online

No doubt, if you are used to finding a seasonal part-time or full-time temporary job during the winter months or for the holidays, things are extremely different this year thanks to the pandemic.

Nonetheless, ‘tis the season to find jobs online, whether they be temporary or more permanent jobs. You can use the holiday season to get your foot in the door in a telecommuting job, work from home, and be first in line for a full-time job when it becomes available. Not unlike jobs when small businesses had a chance to survive in the brick and mortar venue(s), the streets were open, and we were not on lockdown.

Last year, you could have found seasonal jobs on the streets, by responding to Help Wanted signs in the windows of your favorite establishments. Local shops and retail stores littered the streets, and in a day (or two) you could end up exchanging your skills for cash in a brick and mortar business or restaurant.

This year, we have seen the biggest downturn in small businesses ever, and those left standing (only about 30 percent) could still use a helping hand during the holidays. Other businesses and organizations who were unaffected by the pandemic were able to quickly adapt to the telecommuting-style of working from home, and they, too, are looking for extra help during the holidays.

Though this year, you won’t find the Help Wanted signs hung in the windows. Now, you will have to find these jobs online, and not all of the jobs are teleworking as many warehouses and other essential businesses are in need of the extra labor to help make it through the holidays.

And if you thought your job search could be done by scouring your newspaper’s classified’s Help Wanted section, at first glance, you will know this is not how it is done. You will have to take your job search online.

If you want to find a job this year, you will have the best luck looking at sites like, jobs.google.com, Flexjobs, Indeed.com, upwork.com, facebook.com/jobs, and CraigsList, just to name a few. And what kind of jobs will you find?

As you might have guessed, right now there is a preponderance of jobs online which are primarily remote work, such as data entry, social media, internet marketing, customer service, telemarketing, and spoken language interpreters. You will also find retail, delivery, and warehouse jobs. And many of them include perks and benefits, including health insurance and paid vacations.

If you have a car and a valid driver’s license, delivery jobs are also in demand at Amazon and Door Dash.

A recent review found many full-time 40-hour workweeks paying $17 an hour for local work and you could earn much more if you have finely refined skills and experience.

If you are feeling like there is a lack of work available, and thinking that there are no traditional seasonal jobs to be had, it would be understandable. Mostly because you cannot see or find them the way you are used to.

Pretty much anyone with a computer and an Internet connection has little to worry about when looking for some extra spending cash, only be aware that there are some criminals who might like to take advantage of your online job search, so exercise your due diligence and check out any potential employer before jumping in to anything.

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Is Pandemic Teleworking a Corporate Conspiracy?

Under the veil of the current COVID-19 pandemic and lingering restrictions and lockdown, corporations have been able to survive by converting operations to telecommuting and moving jobs online to huge benefit to the corporations and first reports seem to indicate that the workers see the conversion as advantageous as well. Is pandemic teleworking a corporate conspiracy?

While there was a growing interest in telecommuting across the nation, there was a growth-spurt which caught on in the shadow of 9/11 promoted by the government, and other industries took note of how important it might be to have staff that could work from home in the event of any disaster, terrorist threat, or pandemic.

Some organizations rejected the idea of enabling staff to telecommute or work from home out of fear. Fear that the working class could not be trusted. These employers and managers feel like they have to micromanage every step their employees take, suspicious that any employee will do as little as possible or nothing at all if they can get away with it and still receive pay.

Then comes the coronavirus outbreak and even the most resistant businesses are faced with hard and fast choices. Do you give up and close your business or quickly find a way to embrace telecommuting to survive? Do you shut down your factory or crowd manufacture?

And those who were resistant to moving jobs online because they could not adequately monitor their staff for fear of slacking off or having employees that would exploit the employer or corporation, new industries sprang to life to meet their concerns and leaving the staff asking the question, “Is your employer spying on you?” and indeed, they are spying on their employees to varying degrees thanks to remote monitoring technologies.

Other technologies experienced growth to meet the need of this expansive growth in telework across the United States, such as videoconferencing, Zoom, and VPN connectivity.

For the other employers and corporations who were already leaning in the direction of telecommuting, the transition was nearly seamless, and this forced experiment delivered staggering results for the corporate number crunchers. The pandemic work from home workforce increased productivity, at huge savings in overhead for the corporations.

It makes you wonder, is there some other purpose at work here, to force people to work from home?

This pandemic lockdown has benefited the ecology of our world amazingly. Mother Earth has not been in such good shape since the industrial revolution, she is healing from the damage we have caused her, right now.

Corporations are more profitable by not having to cater to on-site workforces.

There is a dark side to teleworking which is emerging, but new technologies are emerging to deal with any shortcomings that might be associated with the work-from-homers.

And factories which cannot embrace a crowd manufacturing model, some of them are investing in housing near the factory, hotels, or apartment buildings to accommodate manual laborers which have not been replaced by automation or mechanization.

Is Pandemic Teleworking a Corporate Conspiracy?

Following this pandemic, many corporations and employers will continue to operate remotely, and they are already releasing leases, selling off, or repurposing properties that were necessary to support on-site workers.

Who are the Top 10 beneficiaries of huge financial growth during the pandemic?

1. Amazon.com
2. eBay Inc.
3. Apple
4. Netflix
5. Alphabet
6. FedEx Corp.
7. United Parcel Service
8. Microsoft Corp.
9. Facebook
10. Zoom

What does the Top 10 COVID profiteers say about the current condition if we follow the money? Is there more going on here than meets the eye?

What does the future hold?

What will the workforce look like post-pandemic?

Are we turning into a society of caged slave labor for increased profit?

Or are we being prepared for new advances in societal living, like The Venus Project?

 

 

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New Telecommute World of Jobs Online

To ready yourself for the new world that is developing before our very eyes, it will require a major readjustment in the way you think about your work, job, and career. In the last 100 years, work was all about finding a way to get from your home to your work establishment to earn an income and return to your home, where you may enjoy some rest and relaxation.

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If you were like the growing majority of us, you may have found yourself shuttling between to or more jobs just to make the ends meet. Even with the raising of minimum wages across the USA, the minimum wage was not keeping up with inflation.

This meant we were working harder for less, and were exerting time, effort, and absorbing the expense of traveling to and from one or more work destinations to support our families.

Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which changed the way we do business in America. To survive the worst part of the pandemic those who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus lock-downs, they were granted unemployment wages, plus a government stipend to help mitigate the damages of the shutdown.

During the period of the lock-down, essential workers were allowed to continue to travel to and from work, while others were permitted to continue to work if they could transform their work into a telecommuting job, which meant they would have to find ways to perform their duties from home in order to retain their jobs.

Telecommuting or working from home is not as easy as it sounds it means having to adopt a new state of mind when it comes to how you think about “being home.” You must set aside some separate workspace where you conduct your work activities without being interrupted. If you live alone, no problem, you may be comfortable kicking back on the couch and working in your pajamas (if your work does not include some videoconferencing).

Otherwise, you need to set aside a dedicated space to conduct your work, which could be in a spare room if you have one, otherwise, you can carve space out of an existing space, like a corner of the living room or bedroom, where you can set up a pseudo-office space to work at from home.

This is the future:

Most of the American work will be done from home.

The biggest fear of businesses in the United States is that without the constant overseeing of employees, production numbers would drop. Employers feared that left to their own devices, without supervision, employees would goof off, watch TV, or spend hours surfing the Internet instead of working.

This is what held back most employers from even considering making the shift from the office to telecommuting. When the coronavirus threat all but shut down American business, the only hope for survival was to hope that being able to telecommute and work from home would potentially save the non-essential businesses.

And what they discovered was that productivity for the work-from-home staff was increased by nearly 20 percent. As time went on and the COVID lock-down lingered, business owners and employers started to see the new future of business unfold before them.

They could imagine embracing this new methodology of conducting business as a positive way to greatly reduce expenses and expand their bottom line.