Wahm.com is the ultimate free resource for work-at-home-moms. If you’re a mom who has recently begun thinking of a business plan, or one who’s been working at home for years, this site promises to have the resources and networking you need.
From recipes to business advice to work at home jobs, this site has multiple useful facets organized within its pages. Individuals who are not work-at-home-moms can also gain from this site. All types of jobs are indexed from various outside sources, such as Indeed.com, and pulled into a job board. The majority of open positions posted are data entry, or full-time positions; however, they do have a smaller area on the site that pulls positions from iFreelance.com.
A job search can be narrowed down by both keywords and location, and the site organizes listings by the date they were posted on the site. There are also many resources for beginning an independent business, such as materials to create a business plan and build a website, if an individual wished to work for themselves.
This site is more than a job board though, it’s a network filled with articles that would interest a work-at-home-mom as well as recipes for busy families. Job seekers who are not moms can utilize this site; however, it may not be as efficient as other telecommuting job search sites. In the same line of thought, moms who are not attempting to work at home can gain from this site and it’s resources but Wahm.com’s information is most strongly geared toward the mom who works at home.
The forum is an area on the site where users (with registered usernames) can post questions, comments, job tips or struggles, etc. This is also the main benefit of signing up with the site. It seems that most users post job openings here, although it is interesting that they don’t do so on the job board. Other moms who have begun their own small businesses seem to post many of the open positions on the forum. Unfortunately the site does not explain how they weed out spammers or companies posing as moms. They do warn users of the site to avoid false job openings but they do not relay whether or not they, themselves, check the open positions before posting them.
This is a great community for moms and even families but not the most efficient community for telecommuting job seekers as a whole.