If you have a background in administrative assistance or office management, or marketable secretarial skills, home clerical work can be very rewarding for you. You can set your own hours, work with the clients you choose, and be home to raise your own kids. What could be better than that?

Whether or not home clerical work is appropriate for you will depend in part on the kind of skills you have.

Can you type accurately? What's your wpm (word per minute) rate? A minimum of 70 is ideal for home clerical work.

Do you have desktop publishing or graphic layout skills? You'll need them if you plan to create newsletters or brochures.

What about transcription? Can you type up a document from an audio or video file? This is an area that's growing quickly in the home clerical work field.

You might also be asked to do some copywriting, editing, proofreading, or data entry? Are these tasks you feel comfortable with or with which you have experience or education?

All of these are vital skills for anyone looking to make a career from home clerical work. If you're not comfortable in all of these tasks, it is possible to narrow the field of available jobs by specializing in certain areas. Knowing up front what services you can provide will help as you begin to seek out home clerical work type jobs.

Seeking out jobs is what most people offering home clerical work must do. While some people are fortunate enough to find an employment ad for this type job, most develop their own opportunities by contacting employers and offering their skills as a contractor.

Examples of How Others Have Acquired Home Clerical Work

One work-at-home mom created her own home clerical work by contacting a local vet and requesting that they allow her to work from home making their appointment confirmation calls each day.

Another began home clerical work by contacting a law firm in her community and offering her paralegal services that she provides from her own home office.

If you're serious about home clerical work, make a list of the skills you have and the jobs you can do and contact area businesses to offer them those skills as a home-based clerical worker. You might be surprised at what's available when you take the initiative to create your own home clerical work opportunities.

While home clerical work is ideal as far as flexibility and freedom are concerned, most telecommuting jobs are not the high-powered executive assistant positions that some people desire. Nor do they pay as well. Most home clerical work is part-time rather than full-time, but if this is what you need, it's definitely worth the effort.

Home clerical work is rewarding, fun and as mentioned, extremely flexible, which makes it ideal for work-at-home moms and those who want to be. You can spend more time with your family, care for your own children, and take care of your responsibilities at home while still bringing in added income for your family. If this is what you're looking for, home clerical work may be just the thing for you!

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posted by Chris Simpson