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Alpine Access Seeks 100 Home-Based Agents in Minnesota

Virtual customer contact center Alpine Access announced yesterday that it's expanding in Minnesota, and seeking 100 home-based agents.

"Ideal candidates are self-starters desiring home-based employment," the company's press release said. "Alpine Access customer care professionals have strong educational backgrounds, a work history that includes previous customer service related responsibilities and good online computer skills."

Like Convergys, Hilton, and NEW Corp., Alpine Access hires agents as employees rather than independent contractors. Among other distinctions, this means that agents may sometimes earn a lower rate per hour, but are often provided health insurance and other benefits, as well as paid training.

For more on Alpine Access' recruiting in Minnesota, go here. 

For the company's website, click here.

To compare Alpine Access to 85+ hirers of home-based agents, see our chart here.

Home-Based High School Guidance Counselors? Yep!

Chris and I follow the growth in virtual public education fairly closely, and regularly include online teaching jobs generally at RatRaceRebellion.com and in our biweekly telework jobs bulletin. So a recent ad for a home-based high school guidance counselor (in Oregon) caught our eye.

But first, imagine what online public education can mean. Picture the impact on traffic (and smog) if school buses and parents didn't have to ferry so many kids to and from those big institutional boxes every day.

Picture the look on those kids' faces, if they didn't have to stand at bus stops as early as 6 AM, waiting for the privilege of sitting in jammed traffic and fouled air.

Picture a "bedroom community" (and just what is that, anyway? A place where bedrooms live?), where neighboring children might actually play outside together during the day, with their teleworking parents chatting and -- scary thought ahead! -- getting to know their neighbors.

But enough of these hallucinatory notions. Unless, of course, the price of gas goes up, and up, and up.... or global warming does start to be taken seriously... or telework, telelearning, tele-local-living migrate "above the fold" (of our tired, habit-tunneled eyes), and gain their merited place.

In the meantime, check out the home-based guidance counselor job -- Good onya, Oregon! -- right here and now.

Refutational footnote: No, I'm not advocating that kids not learn together. Just doing my part for productive dialogue, which we acutely need to accelerate!

Alpine Access Seeks Bilingual Home-Based Agents

Virtual customer-contact firm Alpine Access wrote us yesterday that they're again recruiting for bilingual agents fluent in Spanish and English.

The company noted that Spanish-speaking Customer Care Professionals (CCPs) will receive inbound calls from Spanish-speaking customers. The CCP will be required to communicate in Spanish over the phone, and type and read instructions in English.

To apply for a CCP position with Alpine Access, go here.

For more on Alpine Access and over 85 additional hirers of home-based agents, go here.

VIPdesk Holding Online Information Sessions for Home-Agent Recruiting

Virtual customer-contact center VIPdesk continues to hire home-based agents (aka Brand Ambassadors) for in-bound calls, and will host an online information session for prospective applicants on May 8, at 2PM US Eastern.

According to the company's press release, the session will cover:

--  What is VIPdesk?
--  What is a Brand Ambassador?
--  What is VIPdesk's screening, qualification, and certification process?
--  What are the realities of running and operating a home-based call-
    taking business?
--  Why are Brand Ambassadors the "best of the best" in the call center
    industry?
--  Current Brand Ambassador opportunities

For the press release, including registration details, click here.