With the internet bustling with scores of openings for side hustles, here is your checklist to eliminate the shady ones
If you are a beginner who is willing to navigate the virtual world for lucrative job schemes, remember these essential to-dos.
Client’s Credentials: Once you are cognizant of your clients’/employers’ details, you can firmly attest to their reliability. This is exactly where you should be sceptical about the identity and whereabouts of the person you are working for until you have verified the details at-length. It might be a team, an individual or an organisation, dig to fish out enough information to prevent a situation where you are unethically left stranded and possibly without payment for the work you have done. Since the virtual world is now proliferated with countless money-making pathways, when zeroing in on a few, it is your responsibility to affirm the credibility of whoever you are working for.
Sharing Sensitive Information: Be it your employer or colleague, exercising caution about the information you are sharing online is indispensable to make sure you do not end up extorted. Passwords, PIN, OTPs are vulnerable and especially when you are using public Wi-Fi. Be wary of connecting willy-nilly with strangers over work proposals to avoid data breaches and securing the internet connection. Before logging into any website, you should read their privacy policies to re-confirm if they are too shady to establish any long-term professional networking.
Weed Out Scammers: One of the smartest ways to leverage your opportunities to earn money is by not falling prey to scams. Besides being entirely a hoax, organisations or individuals can be extremely diabolical too. Before signing an agreement or contract, scan through the documents to unearth implicit terms and conditions that might prove tight-fisted if not downright treacherous later. Usually, a few tricks do the job—looking for sloppy grammar, inexplicable gaps in information, excess pressure from management to get you on-board, inconsistency and zero web presence. Also, look for testimonials from professionals who have been previously served as an employee to crosscheck information.
Advertise Your Skills: Perhaps the most certain way to ensure the continuity of online jobs and earning opportunities is by demonstrating your skills and competencies on virtual networking platforms. Sign up with multiple freelance sites and expand your connections to make sure the opportunities of earning money do not fizzle out easily. Networking and advertising of your skills will build your credibility. You can easily fall back on your connections sporadically or frequently to bag new projects.
