Which is better, call center or home-based?
By Lynn C
@kulaspira (26)
Philippines
December 27, 2017 8:25pm CST
I've been looking for a stable home-based job for a month and apparently I keep on bumping w/ scammers. I used to work in the BPO for 4 years and I'm thinking to go back in case I wouldn't be able to get a remote job. If you were in my shoes, what would you consider?
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8 responses
@jobelbojel (35545)
• Philippines
28 Dec 17
I would prefer call center office-based for now because of the HMO benefits. I am considering MyOutdesk as my homebased work because they provide HMO coverage. You can try that.
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@kulaspira (26)
• Philippines
28 Dec 17
I'm thinking of going back to the corporate world and yes it's because of the benefits. Not all home-based jobs provide hmo and other types of benefits. Checked their page before and they need a backup pc. I only have a laptop but I have a backup internet connection.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
28 Dec 17
is this the site @jobelbojel? maybe bhem (@justbhem) can also check it out.
Real Estate Virtual Assistants improve your team productivity, reduce costs and boost revenues. Spend your time on commission-generating activities.
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@kulaspira (26)
• Philippines
28 Dec 17
@hereandthere I spoke with one of their Associates and they're looking for someone who has prior exp in Appointment setting. Unfortunately, my exp would just be for IB and OB calling.
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@Shortail (845)
• Philippines
28 Dec 17
I think the words "home based job" for you is something that, you need to invest and wait. It's not a job actually, and most of the scammers used that words, wait and earn. Try the humanatic if you want to be like in a bpo job inside your home. or the upwork. most recommended actually. the upwork.
@Shortail (845)
• Philippines
29 Dec 17
@kulaspira feedback? for? once you have a verify paypal address, you are able to review their calls right?
@kulaspira (26)
• Philippines
29 Dec 17
I already applied for Humanatic. I'm still waiting for their feedback.
@kulaspira (26)
• Philippines
29 Dec 17
@Shortail as far as I know yes but they still have to review your profile. Based on the email that I've received, it would take them roughly around 5 days to review and they'll get back to you for the feedback.
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
28 Dec 17
I am thinking of taking home based job but there are lots of scammers that's the problem. Offline job is best
@kulaspira (26)
• Philippines
28 Dec 17
That's true! I kinda dealt with scammers within the past few days.
@creativeaashish (2609)
• Kathmandu, Nepal
28 Dec 17
May I know what this BPO mean? Then I should be able to produce some suggestions.!
@kulaspira (26)
• Philippines
28 Dec 17
Business process outsourcing. It's where people are being outsourced either to take in calls, answer queries via chat or email.
@rheicel (7065)
• Philippines
28 Dec 17
I think you can do both. You can work in BPO then you can also work as a part-timer in the online world.
@rheicel (7065)
• Philippines
28 Dec 17
@hereandthere No, I haven't tried it but I have a neighbor that works in BPO and the same time doing a part-time job online. She said that it helps a lot to do an online job in her free time she can earn extra income from it. From what I've heard her co-workers make approximately 40K for doing online job. But it depends on what skills can you offer in online.
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@jvincent_129 (4994)
• Philippines
29 Dec 17
It depends on yout experience and what you want to do. Im from Manila and it would be nice to have a home based job. Maybe 50/50 kind of job, going to the office and occassionally permitted to work at home, if you have stable internet.
