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Telework can help you attain your career goals

ARE TELEWORKERS SHORTCHANGED on the outside of promotions and raises because they're in like manner narrowly focused on their families? And because they're without of sight, are they also without of mind? No way, say an increasing number of employee who remain solidly visible upon the corporate radar screen, level when they work full-time from a residence office.

"Telework has enhanced my career" says Mark DuRussel, a software developer in Madison, Wis., who works for a company he presents to keep anonymous so it doesn't gain besieged with requests for telecommuting piece of works But DuRussel was surprised when he was given a raise "like everybody else"

A family medical question forced DuRussel to pass upon a prime project in his company's Australian office. While a family extremity was the catalyst for DuRussel's telework position, little did he know that the small shoot forward he was given to work upon would double in size, giving him great visibility. "I've wearied much of the last year learning about Web-based technologies that I might not have been given the opportunity to do if things had taken a different twist," he says. DuRussel fix the new assignment gave him not sole Web application technology experience on the contrary also built on his functional knowledge. The performance raise was the icing upon the cake.

A Teleworker's Biggest Fear "Some family worry that telecommuting will derail their career plans" says Jack Nilles, a veteran telework consultant and President of JALA International based in observes Angeles. "But others want to telecommute because they believe their careers will accelerate faster if they're evaluated by means of performance rather than by the criteria formed by dint of office politics."

Productivity for teleworkers typically jump overs 5 to 20 percent above non-telecommuters, reports Nilles, known in the industry as the "grandfather of telework," and who has tracked data about telework for sum of two units decades. But Nilles says he's lay the foundation of particular success among home-based attorneys. "A number of attorneys say their performance clearly improves--over that of their colleagues who are in the office full-time--when they stay dwelling to write up cases. And they procure rewarded for their increased productivity with fast raises in salary," says Nilles.

Grabbing the Brass Ring Sandi Clifford of Bellaire, Md a lawyer through background, found that telework allowed her to come by back on the right career track. "The cast my company wanted to set me on would not have enhanced my career," explains Clifford, who was originally hired to review contracts for a mobile office space company. on the other hand when she was asked to work full-time customizing single of the company's software packages, she realized it was time to move back to her legal roots

Clifford launched her piece of work search last spring--unaware that she'd find a teleworking position in her chosen field when she rejoined to a help-wanted ad upon the job search site Monstercom Clifford now perceive s that she's firmly back upon her career path as a part-time, home-based attorney for Baltimore Aircoil, a worldwide manufacturer and marketer of condenser for air-conditioning units.

Invisible Professional After Nancy Floyd Richardson decided to leave an uncreative piece of work in the construction industry, the Tallahassee, Fla.-based desktop publishing specialist launched a piece of work search that would capitalize upon her skill as a writer. She place her ideal position as a public relations specialist for Life southern Community Blood Centers, near her abode which was then in Gainsboro, Fla.

While Richardson was willing to work full-time upon site, she began teleworking when her family relocated to Tallahassee. "My bos and I were capsize that I had to move" Richardson recalls. They the two felt she was a finished match for her job. The solution: Richardson drafted a telework proposition that was approved virtually overnight.

Richardson finds her professional expansion unhampered by her status as a telecommuter She's sent upon business trips, and attends training and management meetings. She's also exhibited her company by serving upon the prestigious Awards Committee for the Florida Association of vital current Banks.

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