Remote Employment has partnered with Home Learning College, the UK’s leading home study provider, to offer you a wide range of career development courses.
Courses to study at home include:

* Book keeping and Accountancy
* IT and Computing
* Business and Marketing
* Internet and Web Design
* Social Care
* Child Care

Join 65,000 students studying with the UK’s No.1 now. Click on any of the courses below to find out more.

Why Become A Driving Instructor?
As a Driving Instructor you are your own boss and you choose the hours you work. You could earn up to £30k pa (£600 pw) and no previous experience is necessary. All you need is to have held a driving license for over 3 ½ years*.
Why Choose Red?
They are the UK’s largest Instructor Training Network and as such they offer a high level of flexibility in their training approach. You can qualify at your own pace and fit your training around your existing job and lifestyle commitments.

Once qualified they can provide you with seamless career development through RED Driving School. They provide the complete package required to make a success of your new career so apply online -learn more about this home working opportunity.

* BT Home Business Award: Read Becci’s winning home business story.
* Microsoft Remote Worker Award: Read Shirley’s winning remote working story.
* Babyworld Parentpreneur Award: Read Amanda’s winning parentpreneur story.

* Lexmark Home Worker Award:Read Andrea’s winning home working story.

* Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award: Read Victoria’s winning new internet business story.
* BlackBerry Remote Employer Award: Read Amanda’s and Zircon’s winning remote employer story.
* Helen O’ Grady Special Award: Read Janine’s winning Helen O’Grady story.

Founder of Remote Employment, Paula Wynne has used her experience to write about the daunting and complex world of setting up a website. Find out who should read this book.

You may want to learn more about workshop training courses with Paula where you will find out how to create a successful website. 

Create A Successful Website is for anyone who wishes to create a website, from a simple hobby site to a full throttle online business.
This visual book guides the reader through:
* Research and planning
* Branding their website
* Content and how to get visitors coming back
* Ecommerce and revenue options
* Find a full list of chapters and more details about the book

Find out how you can win a website of your very own by checking out the details for Paula’s Amazon Book Launch. You can buy the book on Amazon or get a signed copy from Paula.

Claire Young, from The Apprentice, Rachel Elnaugh from Dragon’s Den and Caroline Marsh from Secret Millionaire have also praised Create A Successful Website. Read the reviews on this easy to understand and down to earth book!

Teresa Klasener, from Streatham and Elizabeth Harrin, North London, are competing for The PCG Freelance Award, while Wing Lee Chan, from Vauxhall, has hopes of winning The Arise Be Your Own Boss Award.

Elisa Roche from Pimlico competes against Elena Fishchenko from Norbury for The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award, and Tabitha Potts who runs Mimimyne from Stepney has set her target on The Babyworld Parentpreneur Award. Michael McKerlie, from Ran One Europe, from Richmond, is gunning for The BlackBerry Remote Employer Award.

The Remote Worker Awards appealed to hundreds of eager entrants around the UK. Home workers, remote workers, freelance consultants, and wannabe entrepreneurs who dream of winning a new home based franchise and internet business, have all given inspiring accounts of why they should win this Award.

They now compete against other finalists at the winning ceremony, which will be held at The Grand Connaught Rooms in London.

Paula Wynne, organiser of the Awards, said: “One of the pleasures of organizing an awards programme is reading the variety of entries and choosing such deserving finalists.”

Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.

More information can be found at www.remoteworkerawards.com

Emma Cossey and Rahel Peirce both from Reading, Berkshire are competing against Jane Rimmer from Binfield, and Billie Wootton from Bracknell for the title of PCG Freelancer Award, which highlighted freelancing as a lucrative and rewarding career.

The Remote Worker Awards appealed to hundreds of eager entrants around the UK. Home workers, remote workers, freelance consultants, and wannabe entrepreneurs who dream of winning a new home based franchise and internet business, have all given inspiring accounts of why they should win this Award.

There has been a range of skills with enterprising individuals, who have forged a career for themselves using their expertise in consultation to help other businesses grow. They have show the judges reasons to choose them as the most engaging freelance consultancy.

The Finalists Are:
Emma Cossey, Reading
Emma Cossey became a freelancer in April 2009, and has since managed to take on a variety of roles simultaneously, including social media consultant for Chocolates for Chocoholics, production assistant for Miramus (dealing with clients like AOL and Aigua Media) and writer for an assortment of popular blogs and websites.

Rahel Takle-Peirce, Reading
Rahel Takle-Peirce has been creating specific abstract designs over 20 years to bring inspiration and beauty spontaneously using her historical culture of Ethiopia. Her unique intricate art reflects years of international influence including work in psychiatry. She is able to capture the spirit of the individual using inherent emotional colours.

Jane Rimmer, Binfield
As an IT industry marketing veteran, Jane decided to set up a marketing consultancy business that would enable her to maintain a better work life balance and remain at the forefront of new technology innovation.  She has achieved both and has gained a bevy of clients over the past five years.

Billie Wootton, Bracknell
Billie Wootton is a Graphic Designer who works with companies to give them a consistent and quality identity throughout their corporate literature. Working freelance enables her to tailor her services to suit her client, providing design services for those that don’t have an in house team. Her passion lies within creatively translating their message into visual communication.

They now compete against other finalists at the winning ceremony, which will be held at The Grand Connaught Rooms in London.

Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.

More information can be found at www.remoteworkerawards.com

The BlackBerry Remote Employer Award, is aimed at identifying and honouring budding enterprisers who have proved how home working and remote working has made a beneficial impact on their business.

The Awards are unique as the only business awards recognising employers for their flexible working solutions and employees for showing that remote and home based working can improve business productivity, improve work life balance and help the environment.

The Finalists Are:
Amanda Potter, Zircon Management Consulting, Coulsdon, Surrey
Andrew Mills, AltruWorld, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Rachel Newell, Max Resourcing, Newark, Notts
Michael McKerlie, RAN ONE Europe, Richmond On Thames, London
Jo Victoria Russell, Institute of Payroll Professionals, Solihull, West Midlands
Tracy Light, TJL Marketing, Harpenden, Herts
Jayne Smith, Document Direct, Liverpool, Merseyside

They all now compete against other finalists at the winning ceremony, which will be held at The Grand Connaught Rooms in London.

Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.

Shortlist Summary
Zircon is an entrepreneurial Business Psychology Company specialising in Talent Assessment, Development, Coaching and Engagement Consulting. Established in 2000 by Amanda Potter, Zircon draws their expertise from a team of 140 remote consultants to deliver creative solutions for their clients. Amanda’s choice to run Zircon as a remote business was three-fold: Cost, Environment and Lifestyle.
AltruWorld is a unique web-based ‘Business Dating Agency’ that matches businesses with customers – according to their needs, ethics and service quality. Businesses receive enquiries anonymously, making large savings on marketing costs, giving businesses the advantage of controlling any uptake without losing face. Customers also benefit by restricting who contacts them.

Providing a tailored recruitment consultancy service, Max Resourcing supports customers and candidates throughout Europe equally, by being flexible and available at a time which works best for both parties, in order to bring the opportunity and talent together.

RAN ONE is an international network of accountants and advisors who enjoy more lucrative and rewarding practices by helping their business clients achieve greater success. They design and develop world-class resources that enable members (and their clients) to enhance what RAN ONE calls “professional wellbeing”: the synergy of work, people, money, and life.

The IPP is the only professional body for individuals working in payroll in the UK and represents more than 5,000 members. Founded in 1985, the Institute is the single largest provider of part-time, professional payroll and pension education. Its aim is to achieve chartered status so that people in payroll are given the same recognition consistent with other professional occupations.

TJL Marketing allows highly skilled professionals the chance to work in an exciting and challenging industry without the constraints of a 9 to 5 day. The TJL team are loyal, passionate and committed to Tracy Light, the founder, who has developed her business model with flexibility at its core.

Document Direct is a 100% remote service business. They are an outsource typing agency giving their clients access to a team of remote secretaries 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Their secretaries work from the comfort of their own homes and choose their own hours of work to suit their lifestyle.    

More information can be found at www.remoteworkerawards.com

The BlackBerry Remote Employer Award, is aimed at identifying and honouring budding enterprisers who have proved how home working and remote working has made a beneficial impact on their business.

The Awards are unique as the only business awards recognising employers for their flexible working solutions and employees for showing that remote and home based working can improve business productivity, improve work life balance and help the environment.

The Finalists Are:
Amanda Potter, Zircon Management Consulting, Coulsdon, Surrey
Andrew Mills, AltruWorld, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Rachel Newell, Max Resourcing, Newark, Notts
Michael McKerlie, RAN ONE Europe, Richmond On Thames, London

Jo Victoria Russell, Institute of Payroll Professionals, Solihull, West Midlands

Tracy Light, TJL Marketing, Harpenden, Herts

Jayne Smith, Document Direct, Liverpool, Merseyside

They all now compete against other finalists at the winning ceremony, which will be held at The Grand Connaught Rooms in London.

Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.

Shortlist Summary
Zircon is an entrepreneurial Business Psychology Company specialising in Talent Assessment, Development, Coaching and Engagement Consulting. Established in 2000 by Amanda Potter, Zircon draws their expertise from a team of 140 remote consultants to deliver creative solutions for their clients. Amanda’s choice to run Zircon as a remote business was three-fold: Cost, Environment and Lifestyle.

AltruWorld is a unique web-based ‘Business Dating Agency’ that matches businesses with customers – according to their needs, ethics and service quality. Businesses receive enquiries anonymously, making large savings on marketing costs, giving businesses the advantage of controlling any uptake without losing face. Customers also benefit by restricting who contacts them.

Providing a tailored recruitment consultancy service, Max Resourcing supports customers and candidates throughout Europe equally, by being flexible and available at a time which works best for both parties, in order to bring the opportunity and talent together.

RAN ONE is an international network of accountants and advisors who enjoy more lucrative and rewarding practices by helping their business clients achieve greater success. They design and develop world-class resources that enable members (and their clients) to enhance what RAN ONE calls “professional wellbeing”: the synergy of work, people, money, and life.

The IPP is the only professional body for individuals working in payroll in the UK and represents more than 5,000 members. Founded in 1985, the Institute is the single largest provider of part-time, professional payroll and pension education. Its aim is to achieve chartered status so that people in payroll are given the same recognition consistent with other professional occupations.

TJL Marketing allows highly skilled professionals the chance to work in an exciting and challenging industry without the constraints of a 9 to 5 day. The TJL team are loyal, passionate and committed to Tracy Light, the founder, who has developed her business model with flexibility at its core.

Document Direct is a 100% remote service business. They are an outsource typing agency giving their clients access to a team of remote secretaries 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Their secretaries work from the comfort of their own homes and choose their own hours of work to suit their lifestyle.    
More information can be found at www.remoteworkerawards.com

I was thrilled when Fiona Wright told me that Woman and Home had chosen me to be featured in their changing career direction article and that they were inviting me to take part as a TV presenter and be photographed and interviewed for the magazine. Fiona contacted BBC Radio Berkshire as she was keen for me to experience the making of a talk show and had cherry picked The Anne Diamond Show.

Well! Remember the days as a kid when you counted sleeps before a special outing? and then you couldn’t sleep before the big day? You wouldn’t expect that to happen in your 40s, but there I was counting sleeps a few days before visiting BBC Radio Berkshire for my Woman and Home Career Change work experience. And like the kid, I couldn’t sleep with excitement the night before. Learning the ropes and with special access being privy to the vital ‘behind the scenes’ action of Berkshire’s favourite radio station. And in particular, broadcasting legend Anne Diamond and ‘helping her’ with her show.

Okay, I couldn’t possibly help as it would all be too much to absorb on my first day, but I fancied I was about to play a vital role!

Did I cut it?

Here’s the verdict:

THE PRODUCER
It fascinated me how John had to be ‘fast’ on his feet., be a quick thinker and have contingency plans to hand in case of phone callers rambling on. He sailed through the show and even came up trumps when a guest, McKenzie, mentioned that his inspiration for his latest comedian shows at Edinburgh Festival came from a U2 song. In seconds John had the track and we were all stunned and, admittedly, a little in awe at how fast he found the track and replaced it with the planned song. Smooth player John, well done!

THE PRESENTER
Anne oozes charm from every pore. She has such a beautiful speaking voice its no wonder she commands 100s of 1000s of listeners across Berkshire. I enjoyed watching Ann and John’s silent communication while on air with ‘eye-talk’ and sign language. I quickly realised how integral the role is between producer and presenter and what great synergy they displayed. Anyone wanting to follow a career as a radio presenter would certainly need to have a broad knowledge of news in general, a deep understanding and affinity with local culture and a cool, calm head for live on air conversations.

BROADCAST ASSISTANTS
Behind the ‘behind the scenes’ assistants also keep up the hectic pace of radio life as they handle callers, phone ins, contact experts for topic opinions and so much more. Too much to mention here.

BCC RADIO BERKSHIRE’S VERDICT
Show editor Marianne Bell’s verdict: “Paula has all the ingredients to make a good presenter – a good voice and warm tone, plus interesting things to say about her life and what’s going on in the world. She was excited to be on the show, which is what you need, and her maturity helped her  fit into a daunting and pressurised environment.

Radio presenting is hard to break into and very competitive. Having said that,
people do become presenters by following many different routes – some will gain
experience at hospital radio and on commercial radio, some will make a move from
production into presentation, some will come via TV, some begin their careers as travel reporters or news reporters.

Whatever Paula decides, all the team wish her the best of luck and we’ll definitely have her back on the show.”

So, all in day, my day started with no sleep from the sheer exhilaration of  grown up work experience and ended that way too. This time it was all the thoughts of the day buzzing through my head. Needless to say it took me days to come down from my Radio Cloud!

Check out the September issue of Woman and Home, on sale now (August).