Just how easy is it to find an entry level wfh job?

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I really need to change my job.

Due to chronic health issues which are getting worse as I age I would very much benefit from working from home, ideally fully wfh, not hybrid but I am starting to believe this may be almost impossible, most of the vacancies I am looking at are either wfh a few days with the rest in the office or those which are fully wfh such as virtual assistant jobs require a minimum experience of 2-8 years!

I would be doing something completely different and moving away from my current position as a PA for a disabled person. However, in my past life (15 years ago), I worked in NHS administration.

My health issues don't prevent me from working well but for my own mental and physical health I would feel so much happier being at home (my issues are unpredictable bowel health related problems) but it appears to be such a mountain to climb trying to find these elusive 100% wfh jobs especially as I don't carry any recent admin experience nor have I any managerial experience.

I am currently doing an online admin refresher course and was wondering if applying for some online wfh volunteering jobs may be beneficial to my future applications?

Does anyone work an admin wfh job and how did you get into this line of work?

I don't know either as I would also like to do this.

So I'll follow this thread and if anyone has any inspiration we can support each other through trying to change!>

Fingers crossed for us

I work in my council planning department. There are roles within the admin team that can be wfh or hybrid or office based (whatever suits the employee). There is no experience necessary for these roles, except maybe general admin/computer skills. I'm sure that there are similar support roles in most council departments.
Local government is fab for flexible working. The pay is not great in the public sector, but the benefits outweigh this.

I'm in the same boat- I can't seem to find any fully wfh jobs that don't need lots of experience or days in the office. I also want part time so it seems I'm chasing the dream!

Good luck to you. And me :)

have a look at jobs with your local council, they are often WFH and have great holidays, sick pay etc

I'm fully WFH in an admin style position, but I'm an Operations Director (this particular role is not dissimilar to a very senior PA)

Local council is a good shout, a lot of those are WFH or very flexible. The fact that you have some admin experience is definitely useful and a refresher course would be particularly helpful.

As a manager I wouldn't want to employ someone with no experience in the role on a fully WFH basis. We had some trainees start during 2020/2021 when offices were largely shut and it was really hard to get them up to speed on the job and for them to understand the culture of the organisation.

I work for local government.

Following.
My local council are useless with regard to wfh jobs. They just don't exist within that organisation.

What if that person has been doing some wfh admin charity work?

I work in LG and we recently recruited admin assistants. We had a massive amount of applicants for just a couple of posts. The ethos is more in office attendance initially, and once competent then WFH becomes available. This was because trying to train someone fully remotely proved very challenging. Also there are also various meetings, training sessions etc where they insist all staff attend. Plus a couple of aspects of the role that require physical presence in the office on a rota basic.

I agree with @Hedonism even if you've got experience elsewhere, every organisation has their own systems and ways of working that you need to learn, usually from someone else in the team or your predecessor. It was quite noticeable when we went back into the offices after lockdown how much those who'd started out WFH were missing in terms of just useful things they'd have picked up from chat around the office.

Tech is your best bet but an entry level job would still require retraining.

By tech I mean web designer, product owner, scrum master, engineer.