Editor’s Note: Each of our Virtual Vocations Staff Stories profiles a member of our geographically dispersed team. We want our readers to get to know the hard-working, highly trained professionals committed to making your telecommute job search a success.
Telecommuting from Louisiana, Sarah Hill is the sugar, spice, and everything nice about hiring remote employees. Her 17 years of professional management experience coupled with her breadth of skills, ranging from lightning fast typing to effective and enthusiastic communication, and unfailingly positive outlook have proven Sarah to be an invaluable member of the Virtual Vocations team.
Sarah became part of the Virtual Vocations family in 2012. Prior to her hire, Sarah spent five years telecommuting part-time and was a proud Virtual Vocations subscriber who appreciated the personal touch our staff brings to its members’ telecommute job search experience.
It was so comforting to know there were multiple real people verifying the positions before they’re posted to the site.
During her time as a Virtual Vocations subscriber, Sarah learned of an internal job opening with Virtual Vocations as part of her membership benefits; registered Virtual Vocations members are the first to know when we’re recruiting top telecommuting talent.
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After applying to and receiving a job offer from Virtual Vocations, Sarah accepted a freelance position as a Job Quality Specialist and became one of those real people, who vet legitimate home-based work opportunities for telecommuting job seekers, she had so admired as a Virtual Vocations subscriber. In 2013 Sarah, a work-at-home mom of two young boys, adopted telecommuting as her full-time work model and never looked back.
Sarah has consistently ranked as one of Virtual Vocations’ top performing Job Quality Specialists and has been promoted to a management-level role in our Employer Relations department. She also provides assistance to and overflow support for Virtual Vocations’ Job Research and Customer Support teams.
I cultivate our relationships with top telecommute-friendly employers who post telecommuting job leads directly to Virtual Vocations’ Telecommute Jobs Database, research, approve, summarize, and post telecommuting job leads to the database, and take care of our registered members’ and site visitors’ questions and concerns.
Whether working remotely from an office nook in her bedroom, her favorite restaurants and coffee shops with Wi-Fi access, or on the road while traveling with her husband, Sarah utilizes the flexibility of telecommuting to more seamlessly integrate the demands and desires of her professional and personal lives.
I’m very blessed that I can adjust my work schedule to accommodate naps, play dates, doctor’s appointments, and accidentally sleeping in after staying up most of the night to tend to my teething son.
This system of work-life balance is bolstered by Sarah’s support network of loved ones—a vital resource for telecommuters who can easily become burdened by loneliness and isolation.
My in-laws love to take their grandkids at least once a week; my dad comes to visit every other week and stays for a day or two; and my husband kicks me out of the house one day a week so that I can venture off into the ‘real world’ for a dose of human interaction and co-working with other coffee enthusiasts.
When Sarah, who holds a flute performance degree, isn’t working or wrangling her sons, she delights in playing for a community concert band and orchestra. Ever the multitasker, she also helps run a Facebook military coupon group that sends expired coupons to families overseas and plays computer and PS4 games.
As to the future of telecommuting, which affords Sarah the freedom to work and play on her own terms, Sarah reiterates what the other 3.7 million remote workers (and counting) in the U.S. also know: telecommuting is here to stay.
So many employees crave the flexibility that only telecommuting provides that employers have realized the talent they need can live anywhere in the world with no requirement to be present in a traditional office every day, or at all.
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